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The main reason we attract and retain quality faculty is due to the fact that if parents are paying thousands in tuition they are going to make sure their student does their homework, studies for tests, and behaves in and out of class. While the pay is much less in Catholic schools, the environment for teaching is much better than a public school environment plus we don't have to monkey around with a union. This past school year, the Catholic school that I work at conducted in-school classes all year. Our last day of school is this Thursday. Quite a success by our teachers and other faculty. Oh just as an FYI, we haven't had a nun in our school in many years.Yeah, maybe that is a fourth factor.
Still, from what I'm seeing, there is a nun or a Brother heading up most of these schools, and the quality of education hasn't suffered due to going with "lay teachers." For one reason or another, there doesn't seem to be any problem finding qualified teachers to teach in parochial schools that pay substantially less than the unionized public schools.