After decades of declining public school outcomes and the substitution of Critical Theory in place of critical thinking, private schools — and enrollment — are exploding.
My one suggestion: do not staff these schools with teachers and administrators whose only experience is from the public schools. This happened in the school that my daughter attended and I had been employed and the entire school was "transformed" into a public school. This occurred because the "powers" that be who supervised the schools for the Diocese was more impressed with the new principal's multiple academic degrees and failed to note that this person had no experience with Catholic education.
Yes. Personnel is policy. It's also pedagogy. If you keep the same people all you've changed is the setting, and you teach your kids this stuff is "Christian".
To your knowledge, are there any "pipelines" currently in existence for older academics who might want to make this jump? I'm middle-aged and working in a public institution I enjoy...but I've begun to think this is something I might like to pursue in a few years.
My one suggestion: do not staff these schools with teachers and administrators whose only experience is from the public schools. This happened in the school that my daughter attended and I had been employed and the entire school was "transformed" into a public school. This occurred because the "powers" that be who supervised the schools for the Diocese was more impressed with the new principal's multiple academic degrees and failed to note that this person had no experience with Catholic education.
Yes. Personnel is policy. It's also pedagogy. If you keep the same people all you've changed is the setting, and you teach your kids this stuff is "Christian".
Great piece!
To your knowledge, are there any "pipelines" currently in existence for older academics who might want to make this jump? I'm middle-aged and working in a public institution I enjoy...but I've begun to think this is something I might like to pursue in a few years.