Catholic School

We live in a top notch public school district that my husband wanted to nice into strictly because of the school district. However, I'm leaning towards catholic school for my daughters. Any feedback from moms that used CS instead of the public and are glad they did it? It'll be lots of $$, on top of the tax $$ we already pay, ughhh , so confused. Any help would be appreciated.

Catholic School

We live in what is considered a good district yet chose to send our DS to Catholic school. We are very happy with our decision and so is my DS. I'm not sure what type of info you are looking for, but if you have any specific questions please ask.

Catholic School

I can't tell you how happy I am that my son is going to Catholic School. We sent him there b/c of our district. He is excelling there and I couldn't be happier. He is even taking Spanish four days a week and is coming home speaking sentences already and he's only in kindergarten. I also like that the families in his school are very close. FM me if you have any questions!

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I love the sense of community you feel when you are part of a catholic school. So different from public imo. I went to catholic through 7th & then public school. DS went to catholic for nursery but public from now on even he loved last year in catholic & it's a struggle so far this year in public. If we could afford a catholic school tuition for both kids as well as high nassau taxes, I would send them in a heartbeat because I had a wonderful experience in catholic school.

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i live near a very good ps in queens but I send my kids to catholic school,
I am a public school teacher and I would not send my kids to a ps
I like the sense of community, family, morals, discipline, and religion
all Catholic schools I know follow the common core so you wont get away from that but its not as crazy as it is in ps, teacher evals are not tied to test scores so I feel there is less pressure as far as that is concerned.
honestly its a very personal choice, I don't understand how people can question why you would send your child to a catholic school over a public school, yet I'm pretty sure no one would question someone sending their child to a yeshiva over public school.

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we live in a very good district in suffolk. We moved to this district mainly for the schools and pay our $12k in taxes for that reason and never complain.

My son is just shy of our district cut off, but was beyond ready for kindergarten. So we decided to send him to a local catholic school to basically skip a grade. When we enrolled him our intention was K in the catholic school and then back to public school.

I loved the catholic school experience. Loved the faith based education, loved how they really taught morals in the school, loved the close sense of community (only about 350 kids PreK - 8th grade) loved being super involved in the school (even volunteering 1x a week as a recess aide). When the tiem came to make the decision to switch we were on the fence. we had all come to really love the catholic school.

But we decided for the sake of $6K a year in tuition, we would try the public school. I am so glad I did....While I had a sense of community in the catholic school it wasnt part of OUR community. Kids were from all over the area, so they didnt play sports together, they didnt have regular play dates after school, we didnt bump in to friends at dinner out or in the store or around hte neighborhood. Now we are very involved in our school, in cub scouts and soccer, I feel we have become a part of our local community instead of just the catholic school.

Also for us I feel the education my son is getting is better suited for him. When talking to friends who stayed in catholic school and comparing what my son was doing in class vs them, he was always doing more. Also in our catholic school enrollment has declined, in K they had a total of 32 kids, now 2 years later they are down to about 22. And very few boys are in that class, so I like the larger class and more diversity my son is experiencing in public school.

In the end you just have to decide what is most important to you. We have friends in our SD and sending their kids to catholic school is very important. SO that is what they do no questions asked. Its a very personal decision.

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Thanks everyone for the responses. I'm feeling more confident with my decision to send my daughters to the public school.

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My ILs have done both. A lot of it was based on their child and their educational goals.

Also they felt with my youngest SIL, the school district was very deceiving and did have its share of problems.

We are in a lower income district and I know that in addition to tradition, many people do send their kids to Catholic because of the diversity in the district as well as lack of sense of community.

I'm not running scared yet because I am very supportive of public school education in general, but I attended my first PTA meeting last night and let's just say it was very eye-opening.

We will only send DS to Catholic most likely in the older grades if we run into problems with the public school setting.