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Originally posted by viet_mom
I liked the atmosphere not because of religion but because if a kid did something wrong/mean, they would be told how the act hurt the feelings of another child, etc. as a reason it shouldn't be done (yeah, I know -- a variation of "Catholic Guilt"), whereas at the public school (which I went to briefly) a child would simply be slapped with a detension with no further discussion/action even though the child just sent a girl home in tears after calling her dead mother a whore. (Nice, huh?)
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Concur. Best reason for Catholic school is that they will discipline your child and they won't apologize for it. My parents were more liberal than my school, but secretly they liked that the school wasn't afraid to kick my ass to the curb. The possibility that I would shame myself and my parents and lose all my friends by getting expelled was a serious motivator. The school had no obligation to give me a place to spend the day.
If you can possibly afford it for middle school or high school, send your kid to a school that can kick bad kids out --- charter, private, whatever. It might be your kid who deserves the boot, but it makes for a better environment. Public school's biggest (and in some areas, only) drawback is that kids have rights, some of them constitutional. This puts some administrators on eggshells, which some kids and parents exploit.
However, I concur with Hank about economic diversity.
