As a Teacher,do you feel there is a difference teaching in a Public Schools or Catholic Schools,?

Question

if so what are they and visa versa

Answer 1

Here in Philadelphia there are three major differences:
1. The pay. Catholic schools do not pay even nearly what the Phila school district does.

2. Violence. Catholic school teachers are not as prone to violence.

3. Every year more Catholic schools close their doors. You have a better chance of getting a job with the school district. Also, the teacher's have a very good union and they get discounts at a lot of stores.

Answer 2

Catholic schools have a focus. It's not that Religion is being taught all the time, so much as it is the underlying premise upon which everything else is built.

Respect of each person, even if the person is disturbing others or causing disturbances. The child is still respected and held accountable for their actions.

From an educational prespective the belief is: every child can succeed. The challenge is to find the best way to approach the needs of each child.

Reseach shows (See Andrew Greely) that Catholic Schools do a better job (teaching/educating) and or less.

I've taught for 35 years + and it's not the money. It's knowing that you're making a difference.

Last of all Catholic Schools are part of a larger community. Whereas Public Schools are separate individuals thrown together without any thing really holding them together.

Answer 3

I don't know what the answer to this is, I haven't taught before, seeing as i'm in the process of getting my degree to do so now, but I wondered that myself. I went to catholic school and I just kinda wondered if certain things were different in public schools as far as they are even run and such, if there really even is that big of a difference. I know in my high school and grade school though, it's not religion in every classroom or anything. They just have seperate religion classes for the kids and have all school masses every once in while and day long retreats for the students, but anything else religious wise, like reconciliation or whatever, doesn't interfere w/ classes, it just goes down during the religon classes. So, I hope that might have helped a little?? lol, good luck w/ whever you might end up teaching if that's what you're planning to do :)

Answer 4

I am not a teacher yet, but currently studying to become one. I have done interns and practicums in many classrooms, as well as volunteered in private and public schools. It is clear that being in a Catholic school system there are certain focuses. Students seem to be more focused with things layed out in a more strictly manner. Where in a public school, all religions are looked upon. Either one make for a good school, it is up to you to decide which one fits your philosophy and beliefs.

Answer 5

Yeah. Catholic school teachers take the vow of poverty.

They also teach children morals, values, and adhere to discipline models. Public schools teach the same thing...minus the focus on teaching how to be a certain kind of person.

I have been a Catholic school teacher for 6 years....public for 2 years. You get laid-off either way...they close either way...but somehow I continuously throw myself at the feet of poverty to go back to Catholic schools. And, parents are more concerned about the education of their kids in a Catholic school because they are paying a lot for it.

Answer 6

Not everything done in a Catholic school is going to be "Catholic."

Private school teachers in general have a lot more freedom in deciding what they are going to teach and how, since most private schools do not have to adhere to the state curriculum guidelines, as public schools do.

However, the pay is often lower and private school teachers usually have to deal with angry parents more often than public school teachers do--since the parents are paying for their children to be there.

Answer 7

Of course there is a difference. If there weren't, there would not be two different systems. In any religious school, the basis of the education is religion. That is, there are certain tenets which are ingrained in the curriculum.
In Public school, there are no religious studies.
There are other differences as well, but that is the main one.

Answer 8

because in catholic schools they exspect you to do everything catholic, Religion is to strick on what and what not to do. so its better to just stick with public schools its bad enuf that they are already forcing religion in them.