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- From: fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.catholic
- Subject: Re: That unnamed subject
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.192254.15957@compu.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 19:22:54 GMT
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- URSIC@ASTRO.CS.HH.AB.COM writes:
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- >school is superior to every "public" school? We've had this discussion
- >before and I was under the impression that most of us thought that
- >parental motivation and involvement were the key ingredients to determining
- >the success of any particular student in any particular school system.
-
- It's a major part but - and this is a big BUT - the other part is expectation
- and respect for the individual. A moral code that somehow seeps out in
- parochial school permits each child to become an individual who is taught
- value and respect etc.
-
- This concept is especially valuable in the innercity schools where value
- systems have gone upside down.
-
- As an example: the rand corporation gave scholarships to 350 disadvantaged
- students from NY's least achieving schools. The criteria was that these
- students would never graduate anyway as they were BAD as selected within their
- systems. They also had to be at minimum two years behind their compatriots.
- They had to have other handicaps such as single parent homes etc
-
- Of this batch of students 82% graduated in the Catholic school they were sent
- to. They took the SAT test in a far greater % then similar students in public
- school and also scored far higher. Paul T Hill, who directed the study for
- Rand found that the athmosphere alone changed the students a lot.
-
- The 'communal' aspect of the schools, which was reflected in an extensive
- array of school activities, a spirit of collegiality among teachers, and a
- "set of shared beliefs ... (underpinned) by a set of general moral
- commitments" was among those hard to explain differences that made for
- different results in the endproduct.
-
- Such value systems may exist in the public suburban schools were a difference
- in quality may not be as pervasive because of parental influence, but where
- that influence exists only marginally, Catholic schools can and do provide a
- substitute that works. It is the main reason why 'choice' would be most
- beneficial for those who are on the bottom of our social agenda.
-
- Fred
-
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