[Serious] Huzzah for homeschooling!

[arewethereyet]

I wouldn't worry about PISA scores.  Shanghai is measured so highly simply because in order to be placed there the PISA people agreed with the Chinese to show the tests to teachers ahead of time, and by allowing the Shanghai authorities to select who took the tests..  And then they compounded that major fuck up by benchmarking everybody else against Shanghai.

And this is one of the main reasons Catholic schools have such a high rating, they are very selective. You have to be smart to get in one.

Some Catholic schools are like that.

I grew up in a town where the only grade that wasn't run by the Church was kindergarten.  You had to have a pulse to be able to attend.  

Jesuit schools are a whole other thing.