Talk:Classical college

Drop-out rate
The claim made is this article that 70% of the students in the collèges classiques dropped out is referenced, but I believe that this is a good faith mistake. I don't have any references handy, but if I remember correctly, the figure of 70% drop-out rate reflected the Catholic education system in Quebec as a whole, not collèges classiques. Somebody seems to be conflating the collèges classiques with the entire pre-1964 Catholic education system, which is not helpful. The collèges classiques were only a small part of the Catholic education system-the vast majority of the Quebecois could not afford the tuition. The parents of the children enrolled in the collèges classiques were always upper class or middle class, and it is very hard to believe that they paid expensive tuition, just to see their children drop out. And the all the more so as one had to graduate from a collèges classique if one wanted to attend university back in those days. It is really hard to believe that doctors, lawyers, and notaries, to name the three most common middle class professions in Quebec at the time, would accept seeing their children throw away the best chance at going to university by dropping out. Generally speaking, middle class parents want their children to stay middle class. Overall, the Catholic education system in Quebec did have a very high school drop-out rate with most children dropping in grade 5 or grade 6, but that is not the same thing as the collèges classiques.--A.S. Brown (talk) 07:40, 27 January 2021 (UTC)