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re: Dominican HS in Uptown NOLA has only 87 8th graders enrolled...
Posted on 8/9/23 at 9:28 pm to John Casey
Posted on 8/9/23 at 9:28 pm to John Casey
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There's alway been 8th grade in the New Orleans area Catholic schools. It just never used to be mandatory. Prior to mandated 8th grade, the 8th grade classes used to be about half the size of 9-12 classes.
Around the late 90s and early 2000s the 8th grade classes at BM and Jesuit were all very big. We all left after 7th and went to high school because if you didn't leave then, it was harder to get into the schools as an incoming 9th grader.
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Posted on 8/9/23 at 9:29 pm to StringMusic
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I have heard that parents are afraid to send their daughters to a dangerous part of town
I live 2 blocks from Dominican. The neighborhood itself is fine but we are also a few blocks away from some not so fine areas so unfortunately some of the shady stuff spills over.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 9:57 pm to Deactived
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We all left after 7th and went to high school because if you didn't leave then, it was harder to get into the schools as an incoming 9th grader.
This. Plus some Catholic middle schools ended at 7th grade (looking at you Christian Brothers), at least it was set up that way in the late 90s.
This post was edited on 8/9/23 at 9:58 pm
Posted on 8/9/23 at 10:00 pm to MrLSU
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I know several parents who pulled their kids last year from Dominican. Apparently it is now teaching uber progressive agendas and the students they are letting in are the let’s say your non traditional types.
That’s pretty much the opinion of some with regards to St. Agnes in Houston. A bunch of parents who have sons in now or who have gone through Strake Jesuit will not or did not send their daughters to Agnes. They send them to Dushesne instead. At least that is what I have been told. I don’t have daughters, so I cannot verify that for myself.
This post was edited on 8/9/23 at 10:10 pm
Posted on 8/9/23 at 10:00 pm to lsudave1
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I live 2 blocks from Dominican. The neighborhood itself is fine
I love that area. Would like to buy around there.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 10:10 pm to danilo
My daughter graduated from Dominican 2 years ago and hated the woke agenda they promote. Dominican did prepare her well for LSU though. My youngest is at Jesuit who has no problem obtaining large classes.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 10:24 pm to Ping Pong
“Did someone not tell them about the causeway?”
Double frick you if you do. We don’t need their liberal views crossing that lake. That’s what got Nola where it is.
Double frick you if you do. We don’t need their liberal views crossing that lake. That’s what got Nola where it is.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 10:27 pm to Trout34
What woke agenda? The Corporal works of Mercy?
Posted on 8/9/23 at 10:36 pm to chalmetteowl
quote:Families have been moving to the northshore for years so they wouldn’t have to keep paying private school tuition on the southshore. Now add in inflation, skyrocketing home insurance costs, and rising tuition and a lot of families who haven’t moved across the causeway can’t afford private school tuition anymore so they try to get their kids into charter schools.
Of course we are in a recession and the Catholic middle class in greater NOLA is being hit hard...
Posted on 8/9/23 at 10:36 pm to Trout34
I almost went to Dominican for 8th grade. Them and Chapelle were the only ones at the time offering 8th grade. I chose Chapelle and never regretted it. I was in the 2nd 8th grade class at Chapelle. We had 16 girls in the whole grade. 
Posted on 8/9/23 at 10:37 pm to 4cubbies
I think a lot of it is Chappelle eating into Dominican’s #s. Chappelle was the first girls school in Nola metro to basically say F Covid, we are going back to normal (helped they were in JP). That helped them get momentum and they have really done well capitalizing on it. Couple that with the general problems being in Nola, I believe has hurt DHS.
This post was edited on 8/9/23 at 10:41 pm
Posted on 8/9/23 at 10:38 pm to STEVED00
Proud of the chipmunks for doing that. It doesn’t surprise me. They had us in school when a fricking tropical storm was starting to hit the area
Posted on 8/9/23 at 10:39 pm to MrLSU
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Couple of mothers were carjacked in the carpool line in separate incidents I’ve heard.
Jesus this thread is awesome…..
I learned during Katrina, when someone uses the words I’ve heard, you know it’s bullshite…
My daughter goes to Dominican, no mothers were carjacked…..
Believe me, Dominican is not woke, and is not hurting for enrollment…
This post was edited on 8/9/23 at 10:48 pm
Posted on 8/9/23 at 10:40 pm to Trout34
Trout is not wrong. My daughter also just graduated from DHS.
Although I would not say there is a "woke agenda" there are undertones of wokeism.
DHS has two problems, one is a perceived racial problem that doesn't really exist other than a few radicals that make race about everything. The vocal super minority causes problems on SM calling DHS racist, when for 99.9% of the students it absolutely isn't.
The other problem is the fricking clicks and lunch groups. DHS should have ended that bullshite way back, but the problem is too bug now to get a handle of.
This is where the rah-rah spirit style of MCA gives them an advantage, the girls there can be civil to each other, even friends, but the clicks at DHS make that impossible.
Although I would not say there is a "woke agenda" there are undertones of wokeism.
DHS has two problems, one is a perceived racial problem that doesn't really exist other than a few radicals that make race about everything. The vocal super minority causes problems on SM calling DHS racist, when for 99.9% of the students it absolutely isn't.
The other problem is the fricking clicks and lunch groups. DHS should have ended that bullshite way back, but the problem is too bug now to get a handle of.
This is where the rah-rah spirit style of MCA gives them an advantage, the girls there can be civil to each other, even friends, but the clicks at DHS make that impossible.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 10:42 pm to Lakefront-Tiger
That is the reason I chose Chapelle. The click feeling at DHS I got while touring was enough for me to not go there. I walked into Chapelle and it felt like home. Everyone pretty much got along with everyone. You had your groups but we all loved the school and had some serious school spirit.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 10:46 pm to GhostofJackson
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Jesuit almost bought Shaw after Katrina and would have had a campus there
What? you have a link to that…..
The archdiocese owns Shaw, doubt any of this is true….
This post was edited on 8/9/23 at 10:47 pm
Posted on 8/9/23 at 10:47 pm to Hangover Haven
Jesuit needs to get a new sign on top their school before they think about buying anything else. That sign looks to be 400 years old made out of plywood.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 10:52 pm to Northshoretiger87
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Did someone not tell them about the causeway?” Double frick you if you do. We don’t need their liberal views crossing that lake. That’s what got Nola where it is.
I was presuming that most of the students and families at Dominican and other Catholic schools were more conservative
Posted on 8/9/23 at 10:52 pm to tigafan4life
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Jesuit needs to get a new sign on top their school before they think about buying anything else. That sign looks to be 400 years old made out of plywood.
Doesnt matter, Jesuit is a joke..everyone laughs at them
Posted on 8/9/23 at 10:54 pm to MrLSU
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Couple of mothers were carjacked in the carpool line in separate incidents I’ve heard.
High Schools have carpool lines?
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