Nonreligious family sending child to religious school
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Anonymous
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If you are interfaith or not religious yourself, and your spouse is, would you send an elementary school age child to a school that is excellent, but also interweaves the religion into everything on a daily basis?
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Anonymous
| No |
Anonymous
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Not for elementary school.
I’m from a non-religious family. I went to Catholic schools for a couple years is ES and again in high school. ES was much more damaging. I left after 2 years to switch to public for the rest of ES & MS, despite the public schools being much “worse” in our area it was a better environment for me. High school was fine: larger community with a broader range of religious & non-religious attendance, and I was old enough to process what I was hearing in classes to make my own decisions. I was way too impressionable in ES. |
Anonymous
| Not quite the same as we are both not religious and we send our DD to a Catholic Middle School as our public options were huge and our DD does better in smaller environments. We think we made the right decision for Middle School as there hasn't been as many crazy things going on at her school as there has in the local publics (ie fights and drugs) but the religious element has been heavier than we thought and the anti abortion messaging etc has been quite full on (we are pro choice) so I think we will change to public for High School. |
Anonymous
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No, I am Jewish, husband Catholic and he pushed me to look at Catholic schools. I was only partially comfortable with one and even then it was a stretch (good school if I was Catholic or even Christian). My child wasn't comfortable either. Many were far from welcoming to any non-Christians or they were welcoming only for the money.
Non-religious Catholic or Christian may be ok...but pure atheist, as we are also, no. |
Anonymous
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As parents, just de-program your children as you would with any other principles or beliefs you don't subscribe to. If you watch TV and you don't agree with something, don't you point it out to your child? Most of what they will be exposed to in Catholic ES is about how much Jesus loves them, how much God loves them, and to follow the Golden Rule.
Send them to Sunday school to the religion of your choice so they know what you want them to believe. The anti-Catholic fear mongering is not helpful. |
Anonymous
| Nope. |
Anonymous
You must be new to DCUM. The forum can't help itself. It's full of anti-Catholic bigots, and since the Roe v Wade thing it's only gotten worse. Folks act like the Pope Himself overruled the decision. |
Anonymous
It really depends on the school. Most are like that. We looked at one all boys school who said that they would basically target my child into religious and other debates in religion class and it was really absurd given my child had no religious background having to stand up to a grown man who spent all his life studying the bible. I was pretty surprised given what friends told me about the school but the head of the school was very blunt and obnoxious about it. The other teachers seemed warm and inviting where it would not be an issue. |
Anonymous
| If I was religious enough I celebrated Christmas and Easter then yes I would. If I was an outright atheist and lived my life that way, then no I wouldn’t. |
Anonymous
Its not about being anti-catholic but its about your child and family being welcomed and accepted in that school. Its very hard being an outsider on kids. |
Anonymous
| My should attends a boys 6-12 Catholic school in DC and the staff and teachers are some of the most unkind, hypocritical, and defensive people I’ve dealt with. We will not return after this year and I say that as a Catholic. |
Anonymous
* My child |
Anonymous
If they truly do this, I wouldn't send a child there even if of the same religion. It's indoctrination. |
Anonymous
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OP here. Every day has prayer and a lot of the reading is thematic, but on our visit the books they read in the class was not religious. I was also impressed with the curricular choices, and the kids were nice.
I liked at least one of the teachers very much. It's hard to say. Am I ready to counterract this at home, and what is the chance that she is an outsider because we don't follow the same protocols at home? That's the trouble really. |