re: Mandeville, Madisonville, Covington, Public or Private School

I just ignore people who say bad things about it. I don't know anyone who actually had a kid go to Pitcher that has anything bad to say about it. It's a great school.

My SO is from here. Did public schools (not sure which ones) until SPS. He had the same impression until we put the kids there. I think people from here are conditioned to say all Covington schools suck. But, there's no gauge. I'm from BR where we have truly awful public schools. People here have no idea what a bad school is. They only know what they've been told about schools they didn't go to and don't send their kids to. And apparently the worst thing they can say is a school is diverse or has poor people. It's stupid.

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Mandeville public schools will track for honors, dual enrollment and AP and likely have a 30 ACT

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Is this not an option at all the NS schools including private?

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There are a lot of very nice subdivisions north of I-12 that go to Mandeville schools.

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True, but I was thinking of the Hwy 21 area, where the boundary is pretty much I-12. I know for sure that above the interstate means Covington High. It's not a bad school, but it's not Mandeville.

In response to someone else, I don't believe the Catholic schools have gifted/AP tracks, but the public schools do, starting in later elementary.

Wife went to Lake Castle's open house last night and wasn't very impressed

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, I don't believe the Catholic schools have gifted/AP tracks

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They may not call them that, but they certainly do.

Honors classes, etc.

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Honors classes, etc.

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That's what we had, I was just wondering if things changed over the years and private went away from that. Wouldn't make sense if they did.

Just to offer another perspective, my family moved around a lot when I was growing up. Sucked every few years having to make new friends. We finally settled and I spent all 5 years from 8-12 in one school. Most of the friends I graduated with I am still really close to. With that said, I feel like the NS public system up until high school has too many moving parts. Your in one school for 2 years then off to another the next and so on. Good for some kids, not so good for some who may have trouble adjusting.

We chose OLL. It's on par with the public schools and we wanted a Catholic education early on. Ideally we will go with SPS & SSA but we are far away from that decision. What I got out of the private high school I attended was more than just an education and from what I hear SPS offers much of the same.

Sippy, I had the same thing coming up and swore that my kids wouldn't have to do that (changing schools, moving, etc.).

I moved and changed schools after
1st grade
3rd grade
4th grade
8th grade

Screw that.

I was able to not make my kids ever have to change schools.

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quote: Marigny elementary for K-1, Lake Harbor for 2-4, Mandeville middle for 5-6, Monteleone Jr for 7-8 and Lakeshore High to finish it out. My 6 yr old is at Marigny now and we love it.

Our kids go to school together FWIW

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My oldest went to Marigny now Magnolia, youngest goes to Marigny.

Couldn't be happier with everything about the schools. Parent events are a little odd - definitely some salt of the earth types, but the kids all seem nice and well behaved.

The teachers do not tolerate any crazy bullshite from students and reinforce good values and behavior.

I think on the Northshore private schools are more about the snobbery aspect in most cases (as opposed to other places like NO or BR where it's a virtual necessity) which is funny considering many people who aren't that well off but will fork out the money for the status, but that's how the Northshore is sometimes.

Generally private school families are:
Legacy - parent(s) went there, the group think and peer pressure to send your kids cannot be overcome by most. If not you will be judged.

Jones - gotta keep up with them. Easy to spot because within 5 minutes of talking to them they'll let you know what school their kid goes to and even how much it costs. Next they'll be sure to tell you which McMansion neighborhood they live in.

Religious - nuff said. I can sympathize, especially with some of the stuff in public schools, but remember local school board control seems to limit the crazy leftist stuff.

Helicopter - can only sleep at night knowing or thinking their child will be as sheltered as possible for as long as possible. Unfortunately, private school kids do drugs, have sex and do crazy shite too.

Other - just good folks who want the best for their kids and have a comfortable enough lifestyle to afford it even if it's not really necessary but like the camaraderie and cohesiveness of it.


FWIW, I'm not against private schools and would consider sending my kids at an upper grade level but it definitely is not any kind of necessity.

Exactly.

Like a lot of things in life, you get what you pay for.

Public education, by and large, is an embarrassment in this state. I shake my head at NS educators crowing about how great their schools are when the only real significant advantage they have is demographics.

Paul Pastorek was the man, but he hurt too many feelings so they ran him off. Congrats Louisiana, stay behind the rest of the country.

Thank you for your post. I have a sophomore at CHS now and loves it. I have another daughter who is a grad of CHS and current freshman at LSU. She is majoring in engineering and doing very well. St. Tammany parish schools all teach the same curriculum. ALL of the public schools are excellent and have excellent teachers. We have not had a single problem with CHS. The false premise placed on CHS is from people that are scared of the diverse population at CHS....if you get my drift. I would not hesitate to recommend CHS to anyone.