<p>What I meant was that people get the wrong impression that parochial schools are rich (because they’re “private”) when they’re generally not, as opposed to the secular private schools which do tend to be well-off compared to public schools. Where I live, Catholic private schools are not leagues beyond public schools like secular private schools are.</p>
<p>oh no im not “men for others”.</p>
<p>I used to go to a parochial school. Now I go to a private school. Although my current school is Catholic, it is private. A parochial school usually has its own parish that supports the school in some way.</p>
<p>Run-down religious school? Psh tell that to my school. It had a 2 million dollar renovation about 3 years ago. It’s absolutely gorgeous inside and out. I love it! And all that money was raised by the school through donations and whatnot.</p>
<p>It depends on the school & parish. The parish doesn’t always donate to the school - sometimes, the donations are used towards basic necessities for the priests & nuns.</p>
<p>The parish didn’t donate anything. This was like donations from alumni and families closely connected to the school. They also fundraised.</p>
<p>It really isn’t much of a parish either. It’s basically a convent connected to a school and chapel.</p>
<p>Jesuit schools like Regis (<a href=“http://www.regis-nyc.org/[/url]”>http://www.regis-nyc.org/</a>) are super competitive and tend to be all-boys. They all tend to feed to Jesuit schools like Georgetown.
Then there are Catholic schools which are basically a smaller version of public schools with the addition of religion class.
There’s been an epidemic in catholic schools, because there are not a lot of priests or nuns, meaning that Catholic schools have to hire real teachers, and they need to pay them a substantial salary (Usually they don’t give nuns/priests anything… or if they did, they didn’t give them a lot)</p>
<p>Well it depends on the catholic schools. I know that the salary the teachers make at mine is not a lot and about all the staff is non-vocational(not nuns or priests). There’s about like 2 teachers that are nuns. Also, at my school, some of them aren’t even state-approved teachers or whatever. My chem/physics teacher didn’t have her teaching certificate, and she failed chemistry when she was in 10th grade…sooooo yeah I didn’t learn crap in that class. lol</p>