[Sacajaweau]

1968...I took my little 5 year old girl out of public school when she came home with a story about the teacher being poor and not making much money. Smartest thing I ever did.

After that...My 3 kids attended a terrific Catholic school. They are awesome working & contributing members of society with good morals, good hearts and I couldn't be prouder.

[wintertime]

Not all private schools are created equal. Caution is needed in choosing a private school. Why?

1) Nearly all teachers in this nation were trained by the Marxist/fascist/Prog Borg Machine in the Borg run colleges of education.

2) My daughter taught in a Catholic school. ALL of the teachers and the principal voted for Obama in 2008 and took **every** opportunity possible to tell the children how wonderful it was to have this man as president. This is a man who voted **3** times to allow babies born alive after an abortion to die from exposure in a COLD stainless steel utility room sink! My daughter’s class was the **only** classroom whose children did not view the Obama inauguration on the classroom monitor.

[bgill]

About the same time you took yours out of public school, my parents took me out of Catholic school and put me in public school. Smartest thing they ever did. The nuns were horrid creatures who shouldn't have been allowed around children. I was sick one day in 1st grade and the sister wouldn't let me go to the restroom. I threw up all over my desk and she made me sit in it the rest of the day. Three days later when I came back to school, the vomit was still there and I was made to clean it up while getting yelled at for making a mess.

Want to talk about combining everyone’s school supplies? I had to wear corrective shoes so my parents sweated shelling out $$$ for and driving everywhere to find some that fit the required school uniform. Well, one day, the nun told us to put all our shoes in a pile and find ours. Of course, I never did get mine back and my parent couldn't afford to buy new ones.

A few years later, my parents wanted to try another Catholic school so I took their entrance exam. My score was high enough but they turned me down because I had entered the name of the local public school instead of the private school for the name of your school question. Someone in the exam room had asked the sister what that question meant and she told us all to write the school we were attending. IOW, she lied or someone did. I suspect they were only giving the admission exams for the money.

One year, at Ash Wednesday, the priest got mad because so many kids had bangs which were interfering with him putting ashes on our foreheads so he ran his finger down their noses. Another priest hollered at us that we had sinned because we went with a friend on his church's (Baptist?) hayride.

Yes, the smartest thing my parents did was take me out of Catholic school and I thank that nun for lying about the exam question.

YMMV.