I try to stay put of these school issues, but this was one I couldn't pass up.
My experience at Annunciation Catholic School (K-8) as a parent and School Board member is vastly different than that described below. Is there religious instruction? Yes, but far from "high religious content." In fact the religious teaching could hardly be described as catholic "dogma" and focuses more on universal themes as love your neighbor, justice, and equality (with the Christmas and Easter stories and a couple of saints thrown in there as well). There is one nun who has taught 1st grade for over 40 years and other than that, the administration and teachers are all lay personnel. Oh one more thing, catholic school costs are no where near that charged by Breck, Blake or Minnehaha Academy with Annunciation tuition this year at around $2,000 per kid with volume discounts given to families with multiple children (the 5th kid is free!!). I bet many on this list spend more than that to send their children to day care. Dean Carlson East Harriet, Ward 10 > I would make a further distinction between private schools and parochial > schools. Not everyone would want their kids in parochial schools with > their high religious content (Catholic, Lutheran, Jewish, etc.) and not > all of them are great learning institutions. Growing up in Catholic > schools it was pretty clear that the girls were expected to become nice > Catholic mommys and the boys were expected to become blue collar workers > primarily. Since we were a border state, the Civil War was called "the > war between the states." Further South it would be "the war of Northern > aggression." So history wasn't their strong suit, nor did they > necessarily want it to be. Everything else was filtered through the lens > of Catholic dogma, which became a bigger pain every year one stayed in > Catholic school. They were very good on basic math and English and > sticklers for how one behaved, in which endeavor they were totally > backed by the parents. The nuns or priests had to pull something highly > egregious to get the parents down at the school to complain. I only > remember two occasions in my school life. > WizardMarks, Central > > >David Brauer writes: > >"The question you seem to answer is that the > >schools are now designed for social > >engineering.My feeling is that schools are only > >for education which in the end > >is up to the parents to control not the > >government. The private schools do offer a better > >education which is what parents care about. The > >troubles are that most of us can not afford > >private schools for if we could I believe most > >parents of every race and class would send them > >there,(except perhaps those who believe in > >social engineering for their children.)" > > > > > >_______________________________________ > >Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > >Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: > >http://e-democracy.org/mpls > > > > > _______________________________________ > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: > http://e-democracy.org/mpls _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
