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atara
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Posted: April 13 2011 at 2:26pm | IP Logged Quote atara
Okay, this kind of surprised me but please explain it if anyone knows.

I was around our local Catholic schools students this week and one was doing his homework. He was in 7th grade. I asked him if his books were Catholic. He said none of them were. In fact, the only book that was Catholic was the handwriting book he used in elementary, until 5th grade.

I was really shocked considering I've been checking out some pretty tough Catholic Classical Curriculums.
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Posted: April 13 2011 at 3:37pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM
I don't know the universal answer, I think each school may be different. Often parochial schools receive state or federal funding, and to do so they must be competitive or follow certain rules to get the funding. My looks into some schools was they seemed to have the secular textbooks and classes similar (to be competitive) to the public school offerings with religion class added on to the schedule. That was the main difference between the public and Catholic school in their books.

Of course, the environment, the discipline, the uniforms, the Catholic living does make a difference. I personally don't need to have a Catholic textbook for all my classes -- and so much of what is offered lately is so liberal, I'd prefer to sift through a secular text! I don't need a Catholic publisher for handwriting or math, Reading, Phonics, English, Science as long as no examples are contrary to Church teachings. I would need to make sure the Social Studies, History all would be consistent with the Catholic teachings and not provide any error or anti-Catholic examples. In all these cases I wouldn't necessarily require Catholic texts.

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Posted: April 13 2011 at 3:40pm | IP Logged Quote guitarnan
What Jenn said.

In our state the Catholic schools get public school textbooks paid for by the state budget, and those textbooks are secular.

If you've ever priced textbooks, you'll understand why so many people DON'T want to pay for them. They cost a lot. A family with two or more children could end up paying hundreds of dollars just for textbooks.

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Posted: April 13 2011 at 3:57pm | IP Logged Quote atara
OH! I forgot the in private school parents pay for the books, right? That makes sense.

It also makes sense that state funding means state rules. I had not thought of that.

Thanks for explaining!
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In the State of Louisiana, Catholic schools are allowed to use state approved textbooks free of charge. If the book isn't on the approved list the school ie the parents have to purchase the book. Homeschoolers can borrow the state approved books for one school year (180 days). ( this might have changed with budgets cuts)
Even though the Catholic schools use the same text books as the public schools, there is no reporting back to the state. The Catholic school doesn't even provide the state with the names of the students enrolled in the school.The schools don't have to meet state "benchmarks", and they dont have to give LEAP or Exit Exams. If the Catholic school does test, it doesn't share the scores with the state. Only the parents and certain school/acrhdiocese personal are allowed to see the child's results.
Hope this helps clear up it for you.
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