<p>I’m just curious, since they always seemed so similar to me. I think that parochial schools are private schools.</p>
<p>Parochial schools are religious private schools.</p>
<p>I go to parochial school. Catholic school to be exact. hehe but im not Catholic. Im agnostic.Mwhaha/</p>
<p>Parochial is not necessarily all religous schools because I attend a protestant school which is classified as private, not parochial. I am really not sure what make the distinction.</p>
<p>Nearly all parochial schools (schools funded by the parish) are private, but many private schools (funded by everything but municipal funds)are not parochial.</p>
<p>Parochial schools are run by Churches or parishes, and they teach religion in addition to normal classes.</p>
<p>well my school isnt run by a parish but we teach religion?? So.</p>
<p>If you go to a religious private school, put down that you’re going to a parochial school. Generally speaking, religious private schools are not as expensive or “elitist” as secular private schools, and you may give schools that wrong impression by saying that you’re going to some hoity toity private school when you’re actually going to a relatively run-down religious school.</p>
<p>That was some generalization, Chris. </p>
<p>It may be true, but wow.</p>
<p>I mean, you really insulted everyone there.</p>
<p>Until I came to CC, I’d never heard of a parochial high school. All the Catholic high schools in my area are either independent (like mine), or are sponsored by the Archdiocese of Washington, but none are tied to a specific parish. The only parochial schools in the area are elementary through middle schools.</p>
<p>somebodynew is right. chris, if you dont know, dont talk.</p>
<p>parochial schools are supported by the archdiocese or diocese, meaning that their funding comes directly from the bishop.</p>
<p>private schools are supported with private funds. my school’s religious order supports my school, not the diocese. this means that my school’s funding does not come directly from the church structure but from a private religious order.</p>
<p>so where does that put Jesuit schools which tend to feed Jesuit Colleges?</p>
<p>they are private schools, because they recieve funding from the Jesuit order. Jesuit schools usually dont recieve funding from the diocese.</p>
<p>very amusing. This is like parsing words. So if a benefactor wants to start a religious school but pays for it from his private funds it is just another private school? I love it. No wonder we have trouble w/ schools teaching in IRAQ.</p>
<p>hazmat and red06…are you men for others?</p>
<p>hazmat, its just legal terminology. for legal/reporting purposes, my school is private. i reported it as private to the colleges i applied to. i mean, it is a religious school, but parochial means that its supported by the church itself. private religoius schools are supported by orders. to really understand this you need to know what terms like “diocese”, “archdiocese”, “church”, “order”, “ecclesiastical heirarchy”, “bishop”, etc mean and function. </p>
<p>and nsutter, what do you mean “men for others”?</p>
<p>Ummm… okay, thanks for all the responses (which has left me even more confused :(). so i guess basically, some religious schools are defined as parochial schools?</p>
<p>men for others is the motto of all the jesuit schools</p>
<p>NO I am not “Men for Others”. I know of Jesuit schools however and that they are different than the typical catholic HS.</p>
<p>Jesuit schools are different from most Catholic schools in that most of them are independent schools (actually, I’ve never heard of a non-independent Jesuit school). There is an association of Jesuit high schools (<a href=“http://www.jsea.org/)%5B/url%5D”>http://www.jsea.org/)</a>. More Jesuit schools tend to be all-male as well. Jesuit schools also tend to be more kickass than other schools…oops.</p>