Catholic school, not Catholic

[Anonymous]

DH is Catholic and made it clear he didn't DD attending Catholic elementary because of the first Communion prep (we are not raising her Catholic). He can't or won't give me a straight answer about upper grades. I'm guessing middle school is more of the same because of confirmation, but Catholic high school should be more college prep and less sacramental prep, right?

[Anonymous]

They only do sacramental prep at the parish schools. The kids who attend independent Catholic schools do their prep at the parish CCD or RCI classes. At least in the ADW. So any of those would be fine for your DH if that is the only issue.

[Anonymous]

uh what? It doesn't take that much time to prepare for first communion or confirmation. Signed, went to catholic schools for 13 years and ended up at an Ivy.

[Anonymous]

No Sacrament prep in HS. Monthly mass. Religion class 4 years. At my kids, HS, one year is Catholic-based religion. The other 3 years are not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:uh what? It doesn't take that much time to prepare for first communion or confirmation. Signed, went to catholic schools for 13 years and ended up at an Ivy.

It's not a time thing. The non-Catholic students were heavily bullied and mocked in DH's elementary school for not participating, and he wants to avoid that for her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:uh what? It doesn't take that much time to prepare for first communion or confirmation. Signed, went to catholic schools for 13 years and ended up at an Ivy.

It's not a time thing. The non-Catholic students were heavily bullied and mocked in DH's elementary school for not participating, and he wants to avoid that for her.

Where and when did he grow up?

[Anonymous]

If he thinks 2nd graders are bullying and mocking today in Catholic school, does he then think it evaporates in 3rd grade? The logic fails.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:uh what? It doesn't take that much time to prepare for first communion or confirmation. Signed, went to catholic schools for 13 years and ended up at an Ivy.

It's not a time thing. The non-Catholic students were heavily bullied and mocked in DH's elementary school for not participating, and he wants to avoid that for her.

Wow, that didn't happen at my school in the 80s. I can't imagine it would happen now. If half of current students were practicing Catholics I'd be shocked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:uh what? It doesn't take that much time to prepare for first communion or confirmation. Signed, went to catholic schools for 13 years and ended up at an Ivy.

It's not a time thing. The non-Catholic students were heavily bullied and mocked in DH's elementary school for not participating, and he wants to avoid that for her.

I would consider visiting any Catholic schools near you in which you might be interested. My father was also against me attending Catholic school due to his experience growing up, however our experiences were not even remotely similar. I never saw non-Catholics bullied when I was in school. If anything, kids were probably jealous that they had less prep work to do. One person's experience is not that of everyone's and you really can't know what your local schools are like without visiting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:uh what? It doesn't take that much time to prepare for first communion or confirmation. Signed, went to catholic schools for 13 years and ended up at an Ivy.

It's not a time thing. The non-Catholic students were heavily bullied and mocked in DH's elementary school for not participating, and he wants to avoid that for her.

Where and when did he grow up?

My non-Catholic kid was bullied in a Catholic school in McLean just a few years ago

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:uh what? It doesn't take that much time to prepare for first communion or confirmation. Signed, went to catholic schools for 13 years and ended up at an Ivy.

It's not a time thing. The non-Catholic students were heavily bullied and mocked in DH's elementary school for not participating, and he wants to avoid that for her.

Where and when did he grow up?

My non-Catholic kid was bullied in a Catholic school in McLean just a few years ago

My Catholic kid was bullied in a public school a few years ago.

Point?

[Anonymous]

Catholic teachings and assumptions and Catholic culture go far beyond religion classes and services at all Catholic schools.

How this will work out depends on the non-Catholic kid. Is he or she comfortable being somewhat different from their classmates. Some kids it doesn't bother at all.

[Anonymous]

In our Arlington K-8, catholic teachings extend way beyond sacrament prep in 2nd and 8th grades. Even beyond weekly mass attendance and daily religion class. Which is why we chose it! Right now, one kid is doing a public speaking assignment for English class and has to speak about a saint. Another is doing a project in Spanish about how they celebrate Holy Week in Spain. Most every class opens with a prayer. There's extra time out of class during Lent for stations of the cross and confession. I'll never understand why non Catholics attend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In our Arlington K-8, catholic teachings extend way beyond sacrament prep in 2nd and 8th grades. Even beyond weekly mass attendance and daily religion class. Which is why we chose it! Right now, one kid is doing a public speaking assignment for English class and has to speak about a saint. Another is doing a project in Spanish about how they celebrate Holy Week in Spain. Most every class opens with a prayer. There's extra time out of class during Lent for stations of the cross and confession. I'll never understand why non Catholics attend.

OP asked about high school though.

[Anonymous]

Our Catholic K-8 is only 60% Catholic. Not a big deal. DD has Muslim and Jewish classmates.