Why Private School

Adios, Barbie: Young Women Write About Body Image and Identity (Live Girls)
By Ophira Edut (Editor), Rebecca Walker ISBN: 1580050166 "In more than 20 candid and humorous essays, a diverse group of women explore how they have chosen to ignore, subvert, or redefine the standard of beauty. These women break down modern culture's feminine ideal and reinvent it for themselves."
After Long Silence
By Helen Fremont. ISBN: 0385333706 "In her mid-30s Helen Fremont discovered that, although she had been raised in the Midwest as a Catholic, she was, in fact, the daughter of Polish Jews whose families had been exterminated in the Holocaust."
The Age of American Unreason
By Susan Jacoby ISBN: 9780375423741 "A scathing, witty indictment of American modern-day culture examines the current disdain for logic and evidence fostered by the mass media, religious fundamentalism, poor public education, a lack of fair-minded intellectuals, and a lazy, credulous public, condemning our addiction to infotainment, from TV to the Web, and assessing its repercussions for the country as a whole."
A Separate Peace
by John Knowles ISBN: 0743253973
"At a New England boarding school during World War II, a group of boys discovers the depths of human

- CITYterm
- Chewonki Semester School
- The Conserve School
- The Island School
- The Mountain School Program Of Milton Academy
- The Outdoor Academy of the Southern Appalachians
- The Oxbow School
- The Rocky Mountain Semester
- The School for Ethics and Global Leadership
- Swiss Semester
- The Woolman Semester At Sierra Friends Center

- Bank Street College of Education
- Buxton School
- The Calhoun School
- The Children's Community School
- The Children's School of Oak Park
- The City and Country School
- Dalton School
- Foundations School Community
- Friends Community School
- Greenwood Friends School
- The Little Red Schoolhouse and Elisabeth Irwin High School
- The Little School
- The Manhattan Country School
- The Miquon School
- Oak Lane Day School
- Oakwood School
- Our Community School
- The Park School of Baltimore
- The Park School of Buffalo
- The Philadelphia School
- Presidio Hill School
- The Putney School
- San Roque School
- The School in Rose Valley
- Sequoyah School
- St. Francis School
- Westland School
- Windrush School
- Wingra School

Educating the young has been a mission of the Roman Catholic Church for as long as anybody can remember. While curricula and teaching methods have changed dramatically over the years, one thing is immutable: these schools do a great job educating their students as evidenced by the very high percentage of their graduates who go on to colleges and universities all over the country, indeed, around the world. With many other boarding schools charging $55,000-65,000 for their services, these boarding schools offer good value as such things go. A couple of schools are single sex schools. The rest are co-educational institutions.
Roman Catholic orders such as the Jesuits or Salesians which specialize in teaching run many of these schools. The standards are high. Most schools have uniform or dress codes. Core values are also taught together with plenty of instruction in the Catholic faith. These Catholic schools produce graduates whose solid spiritual and academic foundations anchor them for advancement in later life.
Check out the profiles of these schools. Many of them also take day students, so if you live in the area, you can have the best of both worlds.
Canterbury School, New Milford, CT
Grades 9-12
350 students
Coed
"The Canterbury experience is a rich one for both boarding and day students, and the community is made more diverse by students from around the globe. Through an active community service program our students and faculty are constantly involved in serving others outside the Canterbury community."
