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<blockquote data-quote="TerryJ2" data-source="post: 152263" data-attributes="member: 3419"><p>Gosh Skeeter, I went to a parochial school and never knew the difference until I read your note, LOL!</p><p> </p><p>NNT, the school will definitely let your child in. They aren't worried about religion in that regard. What they will be concerned about--and you should be as well--is her appropriate grade placement, since she's been passed on to upper grades but hasn't mastered the material in all of the classes. I don't know how much slack they'll cut her in that regard.</p><p>The student-to-teacher ratio will probably be better, as will the discipline/attention/autonomous decisionmaking vs generic board rules.</p><p> </p><p>Our difficult child won't make it into the private upper school from the feeder school he's in now. It's college prep and they push, push, push. Works well for our easy child but difficult child just shuts off. So we're looking into the local Catholic school, too. They teach religion every day. I'm not excited about that--I'm still burned out from my elementary and HS days, although I did get an excellent education--but another mom told me that they have a lot of non-Catholics in that school so they get around it by focusing on historical aspects and placement of indiv. bible readings, rather than force feeding faith. Sounds like a good idea to me! (In fact, I might still be Catholic now if I hadn't had some of that force feeding, but that's for another note.) <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p> </p><p>Let us know what you think after you've had your tours.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TerryJ2, post: 152263, member: 3419"] Gosh Skeeter, I went to a parochial school and never knew the difference until I read your note, LOL! NNT, the school will definitely let your child in. They aren't worried about religion in that regard. What they will be concerned about--and you should be as well--is her appropriate grade placement, since she's been passed on to upper grades but hasn't mastered the material in all of the classes. I don't know how much slack they'll cut her in that regard. The student-to-teacher ratio will probably be better, as will the discipline/attention/autonomous decisionmaking vs generic board rules. Our difficult child won't make it into the private upper school from the feeder school he's in now. It's college prep and they push, push, push. Works well for our easy child but difficult child just shuts off. So we're looking into the local Catholic school, too. They teach religion every day. I'm not excited about that--I'm still burned out from my elementary and HS days, although I did get an excellent education--but another mom told me that they have a lot of non-Catholics in that school so they get around it by focusing on historical aspects and placement of indiv. bible readings, rather than force feeding faith. Sounds like a good idea to me! (In fact, I might still be Catholic now if I hadn't had some of that force feeding, but that's for another note.) :) Let us know what you think after you've had your tours. [/QUOTE]
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