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**CGECngjA** · 04-14-2010, 07:58 PM

What kind of sick personal rationalization could possibly lead to such a preposterous conclusion??

Years and years of data that showed in our area that of all the schools that fed into our high school that that catholic feeder students always outperformed the public feeder school students.

The NUNS used corporal punishment to enforce discipline. The public school teachers could not. The catholic class sizes were twice that of the public schools but they performed better. So either the catholic students were smarter to start with or had a better home enviornment. Or the method the nuns used were better. Since we were in an exclusive suburb, there were no minorities dragging down the public school averages and almost everyone came from two parent families so I think all the kids came from a similar pool.
The public schools also outspent the catholic schools 2 to 1 per student. They had fancy labs while we built all of our science project using milk cartons and straws. Yet we scored considerably higher on standardized science tests.

Class room discipline was the difference.

04-14-2010, 07:58 PM	#33
CGECngjA Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 421 Senior Member	What kind of sick personal rationalization could possibly lead to such a preposterous conclusion?? Years and years of data that showed in our area that of all the schools that fed into our high school that that catholic feeder students always outperformed the public feeder school students. The NUNS used corporal punishment to enforce discipline. The public school teachers could not. The catholic class sizes were twice that of the public schools but they performed better. So either the catholic students were smarter to start with or had a better home enviornment. Or the method the nuns used were better. Since we were in an exclusive suburb, there were no minorities dragging down the public school averages and almost everyone came from two parent families so I think all the kids came from a similar pool. The public schools also outspent the catholic schools 2 to 1 per student. They had fancy labs while we built all of our science project using milk cartons and straws. Yet we scored considerably higher on standardized science tests. Class room discipline was the difference.
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