re: Has anyone seen this list of Catholic school tuition in NOLA?

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You're not paying all of that cash (just) to memorize the Apostle's Creed and/or know the correct fork to use at dinner parties.

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they pay all that cash so little timmy can join a frat at LSU

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I disagree.
Take the 3A catholic school I went to 15 years ago. we graduated close to 200 people. I would say at minimum, 170 of them went to college, whether it was LSU, ULL, Tulane, Loyola, Harvard, Stanford to Nichols and Southeastern.

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Who is to say that each of them wouldn't have attended college if they would have graduated from a public school? You cannot convince me that dropping $25,000+ on a high school education is a good investment when your kid is going to enroll in a mid-tier public university.

Post-graduate success is rooted more in individual work ethic and dedication. Such traits either are or are not instilled in the student by their parents, family, and friends. Whether or not you attend a private or public school has little bearing on such characteristics.

Like I said, I'm not oblivious to the fact that many of these private institutions have more intensive college preparatory curricula and better-educated instructors than public schools.

However, your college education and work experience dictates your success in the business world, not your high school diploma.

I don't give a shite what high school you went to if all you have is an associate's degree from a local community college.

Again, it's just not that great of an investment unless the student attends a top-flight university.

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guarantee these don't.

Uncle is loaded.

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I know your uncle and cousins. Good people.

about 500 a month for an extra 30-points [ in 80th percentile instead of 50something for public school ] is not bad

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However, your college education and work experience dictates your success in the business world, not your high school diploma.

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Usually, but there are other considerations. Parents also send their children to Catholic schools for a Catholic religious education, or because their child needs more attention or discipline than a public can provide. Also, certain private schools (Jesuit and Newman spring to mind but there are others) provide you with a network that will benefit you in the business world even more than your college.

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Why aren't they at ASH or McGhee?

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Because they aren't all girls?

My mistake. I thought he said triplet nieces.

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Who is to say that each of them wouldn't have attended college if they would have graduated from a public school. You cannot convince me that dropping $25,000+ on a high school education is a good investment when your kid is going to enroll in a mid-tier public university.

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Maybe you can't convince a parent who sends their kid to Dutchtown, or Zachary, or Central, but the vast majority of the other public schools in this state, it's pretty easy to convince someone that private school is much better than public.

There's a big difference between E.D. White/Vanderbilt and the shite show of public schools in the Lafourche/Terrebonne area.
Baton Rouge High is a high school for kids that don't want to go to high school. So unless you live in the suburbs of Baton Rouge, you don't have a choice but to send your kid to private school.
I'd rather live close to work and pay for school, than live in Livingston or Ascension and commute and rely on the government to educate my kids. My personal choice.

Looks pretty cheap compared to other cities.

Tier 3 schools in St. Louis start at $10k and tier 1 schools are closer to $30k.

Yea, you think that is high go check out the Washington D.C. Area Catholic school prices. My old school is like 15k now and that is cheap there.