The kids in my neighborhood were pretty tight knit. I grew up in the Forest Hills section of Pottsville. We were considered the well off kid's because my home wasn't attach to another. We did everything together fromn pickup baseball games in the summer and football games in the fall. However, when it came time for school half of us when to Pottsville Area School District and the other half went to the Catholic school system.
For those of us in the public system we attended D.H. Lengle Middle School and then Pottsville Area High School. The kids who went to the Catholic system attended All Saint's Middle School and then Nativity High School.
While in middle school we were all still pretty close knit as we moved into high school we began to form two different groups within the neighborhood that sometimes interacted. Usually those interactions were centered around sports or the pursuit of girls. You either played for Pottsville High School or Nativity High School and that carried on into our pickup games in Forest Hills.
I remember the general impression was that Pottsville High School was always more dominant in athletics but that Nativity had better academics. Over fifteen years later that got me to thinking, is Private School systems, particularly Catholic School systems preparing students for college level academics better than their public counterparts?
This blog will have a total of three sections not including this one:
Section 1: History of Catholic School Systems in the United States
Section 2: History of Public School Systems in the Untied States
Section 3: Comparing and contrasting present systems and performance of the two systems.
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