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Guest -> RE: catholic schools (1/25/2007 5:45:42 PM)
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Perhaps the reason that many people are under the impression that the public schools don't teach values is their observation of SOME public school kids and the parents of these kids. Most of my friends' kids go to public school. They are LOVELY families. Some of them are Catholic, some Protestant, some Jewish. We have a diverse multi-cultural group of friends. What we all have in common is that we supervise our children and try to teach them to respect others.
We have a MAJOR problem with SOME of the CCD children that use our parish school for religious instruction. They write curse words on the desks, they steal supplies, they rip down bulletin boards, etc. I know the teachers are volunteers and they are in short supply, but some of them don't supervise the children very well. I don't know why more of these kids' parents don't volunteer to help out. Honestly, I think many of them are lazy and don't want to be bothered. It is obvious that they don't teach their children values at home and they don't care whether or not they are learning them in school. Most of the families take CCD seriously. But some just do it during Communion and Confirmation years to appease the grandparents and so they can "have a party".
I am active in the parish so I am up at the school several days each week. The CCD kids are running all over, playing basketball and soccer in the halls, running in and out of the school library, etc. while the parents are oblivious. The moms are all standing around gabbing at drop off and pick up time. They allow the younger siblings to run all over the building. Yesterday, for example, I observed an unsupervised baby running all over, a little girl roller skating up and down the halls and two boys bouncing a basketball against glass doors while their mommies gabbed. Not only could they have caused damage by breaking the glass, but they could have injured themselves or others in the building. When I went to say something to them, they ran outside. The custodian had heard the balls bouncing loudly against the glass and came running to see what was going on. I told him what the boys were doing. He said he was sorry, to let him know if anything else happened. I said: "It's not your fault, their mothers should have been watching them." (And these boys were about 11 or 12, old enough to know better.) One kid knocked over a bulletin board display and proceeded to run in and out of the library, swinging the doors back and forth. He didn't bother to try to pick it up. His mother (know the family) was gabbing on her cell phone, and didn't bother to tell him to pick it up.
My kids aren't perfect angels, but I would NEVER allow them to behave this way. I can't imagine going into some one else's school and doing things like this.
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