(August 11, 2022 at 10:31 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: More individual attention, and the chance to mingle with relatively wealthy peers. Those were the hooks in the 90's, when I went. That and feeder programs to ivy league schools I'd never attend on account of how I prefer camping and shooting guns and building shit. One of the ways that catholic schools have stayed competitive boils down to tuition reduction schemes. When you volunteer to teach - not bound by public schools certification requirements, though not necessarily choosing between a pool of subpar applicants.
You can end up with (relatively) alot of people with a masters or better but no ed cert teaching high school courses. Mind you, competition for academic excellence is fierce around important bases and in densely populated areas - and some kid in bfe texas could have had a gym owner as a pe coach and history teacher..but I have no complaints myself about the quality from my stint, lol. My science teachers were geneticists and hydrologists and marine biologists by training. My economics unit was taught by a fund manager for raymond james. PE and football coach was an air force para rescue officer. We had local authors and artists of note for ela and lib arts. It was good. Such a tight knit community that I;ve never really made friends outside of it in all of my life thereafter.
LOL - I think it was 8th grade that I had Coach Timmerman for History. He wasn't the best when it came to pronouncing words and sitting in the front row meant you had a lovely shot of his crotch in his coaching shorts with one leg propped up on a desk as he spit on you while he talked.
When I got to Freshman year we actually had a real teacher. In fact, that teacher ended up being principal for a while later on till it was decided that a member of clergy had to hold that position.
I'm your huckleberry.
