My folks did the opposite. They sent us to Catholic school for the religious instruction through grades 6 or 8 and then to the public schools for the activities.
This piqued my curiosity... I double-checked and there isn't a private high school in Athens County or any county bordering it. Athens School District shows 9.6% of kids attending private high school. From the article: "The estimates for private schools include children who are home schooled or attend any type of private school." Lots of University Professors home-schooling their kids I guess?
Probably a lot of weirdo types in Athens.
Do digital academies or charter schools figure into this in some way?
My wife is a teacher in a N Ky elementary school. It is surprising. My guess is 50% maybe slightly more send there kids to privates. We did but we live in Cincy. Btw the principal is one of them I believe.
It’s hard to really blame a kid for not wanting to go to the school where a parent teaches. It has to be awkward as hell.
Yes that’s a good point. Not all lived in the same district however. If I recall there were several parents that were teachers who sent the kids to the Catholic high school my kids attended. So it happens for whatever reason.
Probably Tri County. It’s a vocational school in Nelsonville. Also Athens has small Dover Township in its district. It’s pretty poor so a lot probably home school. A lot of poor people home school since they get more welfare money. Most college professor’s from Ohio U send their kids to public Athens. I doubt too many educators would send their kids to private schools.
Tri County isn't private though, I believe most vocational schools are public in the state. It must be the welfare aspect impacting homeschool rates... I didn't realize home-schooling increased welfare payments (noticed Trimble and other county schools had fairly high %'s also)
I’d say it’s a very high percentage of very poor kids are homeschooled. I’ve never understood how that’s even legal.
I have long ago called Mercer county area Public Privates. They have the best of both. The schools in many communities are built right next to the church, so kids go over to the church for one period per day, then back to the public funded education system in their school. Parents get free private school courtesy of the state.
Is it any different than fathers coaching sons?
I sorted by the highest Grade School percentages. All the schools you mentioned are in the top 8:
I noticed that, too. But then you have Delphos, which has 2nd-highest high school percentage of 36.4% (Delphos St. John's, of course).
Is that in the Pymatuning Valley/Andover area? My wife graduated from Conneaut, and my mother-in-law is a regular at a campground in Andover, so I'm somewhat familiar with the area. My wife always said she thought they had a lot of Amish in her area (and across the PA line), until she moved down here into good ol' Wayne County and got to see Holmes County up close. LoL
