I’m not sure if this is relevant today, but parochial schools back in my time provided a far superior education than did public schools. Whether nuns or lay teachers, they made us WORK. Oh, and that terror of the nuns’ disapproval, lol.
When I’d completed tenth grade, the local Catholic high schools closed and consolidated into one large one, which happened to be on the opposite side of town where we lived, so I attended the local public high school for 11/12 grades. I saw the difference immediately when I signed up for third-year Spanish; it was exactly the same as second- year Spanish at St. Matt’s. I dropped the class.
And I actually wasn’t allowed to take a course called “Harlem Renaissance”. I wanted to read the Black writers and would have been the only non-Black in the class. But the school principal told me, The boys are gonna hit on you, and the girls are gonna want to beat you up.
Yes. Catholic Schools had a good reputation for actually teaching.
Sorry you went to such a hopeless High School.
My daughter had a wonderful Education at Primary School in our Canyon but then Junior High happened. One of the largest schools in LA School District with police on the campus.
Arrgh, penguins. They were usually better teachers, I admit. But they shoulda seasoned the younger ones before sending them out into the older grades, 6, 7, 8. Oh the stories I could tell. Sweet-faced Sister Christine, maybe 21, who thought she could single-handedly stop the 6th grade boys from smoking cigs behind the church. NOT!
Hi Jenny
I’m not sure if this is relevant today, but parochial schools back in my time provided a far superior education than did public schools. Whether nuns or lay teachers, they made us WORK. Oh, and that terror of the nuns’ disapproval, lol.
When I’d completed tenth grade, the local Catholic high schools closed and consolidated into one large one, which happened to be on the opposite side of town where we lived, so I attended the local public high school for 11/12 grades. I saw the difference immediately when I signed up for third-year Spanish; it was exactly the same as second- year Spanish at St. Matt’s. I dropped the class.
And I actually wasn’t allowed to take a course called “Harlem Renaissance”. I wanted to read the Black writers and would have been the only non-Black in the class. But the school principal told me, The boys are gonna hit on you, and the girls are gonna want to beat you up.
Sigh…1970! 🙄
Yes. Catholic Schools had a good reputation for actually teaching.
Sorry you went to such a hopeless High School.
My daughter had a wonderful Education at Primary School in our Canyon but then Junior High happened. One of the largest schools in LA School District with police on the campus.
Hi Jenny
I did have a wonderful art teacher there. Thing is, I didn’t NEED an art teacher!
Laughing.
Arrgh, penguins. They were usually better teachers, I admit. But they shoulda seasoned the younger ones before sending them out into the older grades, 6, 7, 8. Oh the stories I could tell. Sweet-faced Sister Christine, maybe 21, who thought she could single-handedly stop the 6th grade boys from smoking cigs behind the church. NOT!
Vin, we were Catholics, not angels 😉