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ideal school

7/23/2021

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Since the beginning, my favorite place has been school.
My ideal Catholic school, the one I fancy creating, I lay before you.
Of course, it would require a very rich person build and endow it.
Staff: five tutors and a principal
No grade levels

Lower School (Building A)
Room 1, giant classroom, 25 boys with male tutor
Room 2, giant classroom, 25 girls with female tutor
Entrance requirements: child can read one-syllable and two-syllable words and simple sentences with basic punctuation (period, question mark, and exclamation point); child can count and do addition and subtraction
Curriculum: trivium and quadrivium, Catechism, Introduction to Latin

​Upper School (Building B)
Seven periods

First floor
Room 3 English, Latin, rhetoric, speech, logic, history, civics, Catechism 25 boys with male tutor
Room 4 English, Latin, rhetoric, speech, logic, history, civics, Catechism 25 girls with female tutor
Second floor

Room 5, giant classroom and lab, STEM coed 50 students with one tutor, male or female
Entrance requirements: movement from Lower School to Upper School normally at age 13 or 14. Student evaluated by the tutors to determine whether he or she is ready. Gifted children advanced faster according to demonstrated ability. Scores on a national test to be used to strengthen weak areas.
Curriculum: English, Latin, US and world history, civics, rhetoric, speech, logic, Catechism, STEM (science to include short courses on subjects other than biology, chemistry, and physics, TBD by students and tutor), all courses tutored to SAT standards and Common Core ignored.

Credential not required; solid education and observable ability to teach are. Background check mandatory. All tutors to be practicing Catholics who have signed the Mandatum. Without the Catechism, education is purposeless.
Tutors must gain competency at teaching music and art appreciation, which is a secondary but important subject.
Learning to play a musical instrument or sing is for outside school.
Learning to draw or paint is for outside school.

Sport is not a subject; students are encouraged to participate in club sports.
Sex education to be done by parents at home and to be highly encouraged.
Wechsler test administered.
Testing is frequent and is to be used to determine a student’s weaknesses and progress. Semester grading is based on the amount of progress demonstrated, not tests.
Student body officers for lower and upper school.
No service requirements; parents to guide service in the way they see fit.

Verbal discipline leading to expulsion for those who cannot cooperate.
By necessity, the school would be cognizant of the fact that children, parents, and other adults sometimes lie as a result of the fallen nature of humanity. For this reason, the restriction against touching a child and the resulting outcry, which is supercilious, would not apply. However, each tutor would be coached at the start of every semester on proper physical contact with children.

Tutors and students clean the school.
Uniforms required of everyone at all times.
Tuition enough to pay the staff, nothing more.

The purpose of an education is threefold:
1) to know, love, and serve God
2) to be an educated person
​3) to get a job

If I took the time, I could draw the school. There would be a separate school yard for lower and upper school and a shared auditorium. Latin Mass every first Friday of the school year for all in the auditorium. Confession required before Mass for those who have made their first confession. Every school day to begin (8:30 AM) and end (3 PM) with recitation of the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be.
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Josef Ketzer
8/9/2021 11:23:57 am

I had also a phantasy of founding a Catholic private school, for girls, and somewhere "East of Suez", to quote Rudyard Kipling. I imagined a lot of details, like the school uniforms (Sailor Style or blazers with tartan skirts, these maybe tailor-made as the ones available on the web might not be appropriate as too short), the school hymn (the lyrics from my old school, a song of praise to The Immaculate, but the tune from "Kellerman's Anthem"), as name I would choose "Mary Ward School" in memory of my dear passed away mom, whose dream it had always been to attend the school of "Englische Fräulein" in Sankt Pölten to become later a children's doctor or a teacher. But there wasn't enough money in our family as my grandfather died from a wound from the Italian front (the Isonzo battles) in World War I, and only the eldest son, my uncle, whom I never got to know, went to a seminary of the Salesians of Don Bosco (the pastor of our village came up for the fees). But the Nazis closed the seminary after the "Anschluss" and my uncle was drafted and went M. I. A. in Romania, without a trace...
I also dreamed of a small girl's choir, like the Wiener Sängerknaben, to perform MY music, of course Gregorian and high orchestral masses by Mozart, Haydn, Schubert (the big 3), Beethoven, Bruckner, Pleyel,... But also hymns from the Anglo-Saxon area, which are too much neglected in Austria and Germany. And sometimes even something modern, like "Dominique, Dominique" by Soeur Sourire, fitting to the feast of St. Dominic a few days ago...
Well, these are some not so strictly ordered thoughts of mine...
Have a nice day, Bobby, and take good care of Yourself, Your friend Joe

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Robert Dunn link
8/9/2021 09:32:41 pm

If only a very rich person would make my fantasy come true? Know any? That same person could fund my writing future, which is in the pits and out of which the career might never emerge. Joe, I should not be surprised that you have the same fantasy, but I am. Bobby

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