re: Catholic School vs Montessori vs Public

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In the end, it will always depend on the specific teacher and school, but in general, you can be pretty sure that Montessori > Episcopal > Catholic > Public.

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This is just nonsense, not only because of the generalizations and complete lack of evidence, but the underlying constructivistic theory that is a major part of Montessori education is not well supported empirically compared to other methods.

I did public school, and ,Montessori once, it was fun at dufroq.

But some public schools are better then private . Compare brmhs to any private school here

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Aren't you going to Charleston soon? Was that you?

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Yeh man Im pumped. Going May 14th-17th. You going to be in town?

It will depend on where you live. In Jefferson and Orleans Parish, the advanced study public schools are better than Catholic as far as academics. If you can get your kid/s into these schools, great, if not, private is the way to go. Like another poster stated, the Montessori preschools and such, are very good.

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Right, I wouldn't send my kids to public no matter the quality

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Really? Where I live here in Nashville area, my public school is Ravenwood and it is absolutely unreal. Where as the catholic school can be seen as more troubled kids

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How does a school like Benjamin Franklin High School compare to a Brother Martin?

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I think Ben Franklin is better academically for sure

Well I didn't like BRMHS . But lee will be great . It will eventually outperform brh and compete with private schools

I do not have kids yet and grew up on the Northshore so I really don't know anything about public schools in Nola. I do know that Ben Franklin is always rated very high nationally though. I found this tidbit on wiki which is pretty hilarious. How can test scores possibly be racist?

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Accusations of bias in admissions The school's selective admissions policies have led to accusations of bias.[42] Before Hurricane Katrina, it was estimated that 450 of 800 applicants on average were not accepted because of insufficient grades and test scores.[96] Compared to the rest of the city, the school has a disproportionately low percentage of African Americans.[97] Carl Galmon, a local activist, claimed in 1996 that Franklin's admissions tests are culturally biased against black students.[98] Following Katrina, the school converted to a charter school and preserved its selective admissions system.[6][28] The school has received praise for traditionally producing some of the "highest-performing students in the entire state of Louisiana,"[23] including an exceptional number of students awarded by the National Achievement Scholarship Program of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, a program open only to African Americans.[10][edit]

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There's way more to a school than academics, I like that my kids are still getting religion in school, the class size along with teachers that really care about the students(my kid's teacher comes to his tball games on the weekends), networking with other kids from same social class, discipline, other parents that I can relate too....list keeps going

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There's way more to a school than academics, I like that my kids are still getting religion in school, the class size along with teachers that really care about the students(my kid's teacher comes to his tball games on the weekends), networking with other kids from same social class, discipline, other parents that I can relate too....list keeps going

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Look man Im with you. Catholic school my whole life, south La, my whole family etc etc. What you want here would be Ravenwood/Brentwood high and not Father ryan. I think you should avoid blanket statements before moving around. It is the same thing as people from out of Louisiana saying private school kids are all filthy rich spoiled kids