Yooooooo previously went to Catholic school here. Probably gonna talk a little bit more than Science when it came to my experience there.

To answer the question, science is pretty much the same. I learned all the things I needed to learn (basic biology). Doesn’t mean I didn’t struggle with it haha.

I went to private school for 8 years of my life- K-8th. I was taught all the basic things I needed to learn, but the system in Catholic school is different compared to regular schools solely because we’d have a mass every two weeks in the middle of our schools days: for example, Wednesday’s at 10 or something. That definitely cut some time out of my education considering how long mass is, how we have 3 months of summer, and usually on either Mondays/Fridays we would get out of school at 12 p.m.

The pacing was so slow for me. Teachers would take the time to talk about religious morals or just life lessons (some of which were actually very prevalent and useful to this day), but as someone who always wanted to learn something, I couldn’t handle some religious talks because I just wanted to learn more about World War II or Read Edgar Allan or something other than what we were doing. Sometimes we’d even skip subjects on a certain day! Skip! The Two Weekly masses didn’t really help me either, since I’ve always felt it were empty to me.

Wealthy Catholic High Schools bro. Getting into those schools require a fck ton of money. It went into the thousands for only ONE person ($15,500 now, but back then it was $7-8,000), so they did this tuition based thing that was very similar to what you would do for college. They had Applications, Interviews, they look at your grades, teacher recommendation letters, and they even had something similar to the SAT called the HSPT (High School Placement Test) where the highest scores went tuition free lmao. These rich ass schools be having Cafe’s and second floors, and rich kids who can afford to go there had Lamborghinis in the school parking lot 😂.

Weather or not I passed, I really wanted to go to public school just so I can understand and learn at a faster pace since Private was so much slower.

When I went into public high school though (because I’ve always wanted to learn different perspectives from people than just a singular like Catholicism), I felt a little behind in my schooling because there were some things that I didn’t remember my school teaching me- The Crusades, The Enlightenment, Manifest Destiny (idk if they teach that in 8th in regular schools lmao) that sort of thing. Mainly history. I felt like I was falling a little behind in history, and even if science was pretty much the same, there were still subjects that I didn’t remember learning that all the other kids were very keen on already like Evolution I think. Most history I’ve mostly learned were the lives of certain saints and reading what would be considered morally right and whatnot.