Catholic school but not Catholic? How to address this with school when applying?

[Anonymous]

They don’t care. The deal is and you know it: you pay reduced tuition and they indoctrinate your children. That’s the only reason they run the schools

[Anonymous]

They asked us when we applied to catholic HS what our religion was and we were honest and upfront about being non-religious agnostics. Many non-catholics send their kids to catholic schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We were not asked why we were looking at O’Connell when we are not Catholic. I don’t think they care, because anyone applying has to understand that it will be a Catholic-based education, they will not change anything for someone who isn’t Catholic, and be ok with that. They assume you know what you are getting into.

Exactly. We were tempted but the hours spent regurgitating some pretty holy stuff wasn’t worth it.

[Anonymous]

Hokey not holy

And we are in fact Christian and believe

[Anonymous]

Catholic schooler here, they take all kinds. You are sending the kid for the academics.

You do get a discount if you get the child baptized!

[Anonymous]

They will ask your religion/parish on the application. We just put n/a.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Catholic schooler here, they take all kinds. You are sending the kid for the academics.

You do get a discount if you get the child baptized!

They take them but the mission is clear why. It’s not false advertising. And they don’t go light handed on the Catholic stuff. Including the homework.

Quaker education it ain’t. Let’s be clear. But that’s why you get 50% discount and pay in the willingness to expose your child to the Catholic Church.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We were not asked why we were looking at O’Connell when we are not Catholic. I don’t think they care, because anyone applying has to understand that it will be a Catholic-based education, they will not change anything for someone who isn’t Catholic, and be ok with that. They assume you know what you are getting into.

Exactly. We were tempted but the hours spent regurgitating some pretty holy stuff wasn’t worth it.

We also ultimately withdrew our application to O’Connell because DS is dyslexic and everything takes him longer, so having to spend time and effort on the reading and writing for a Catholic-based religion class every semester would not be the right use of his energy.

If you’re not Catholic but the religious aspect doesn’t bother you, O’Connell at least seemed like a good school. We didn’t look at any other Catholic schools. FWIW I do not believe they would try to convert DS, but also recognize that they would not compromise the religious aspects of the education they provide for non-Catholics.

[Anonymous]

What bothers me is demagogy. Here’s verbatim curriculum from a recent week in a Catholic School:

A few things we are learning:
Maps - our place in the world
Friends of Jesus
Printing
Markets around the world
The idea of addition

A few things we will be learning:
Gratitude for being sent to a Catholic School
Groundhog Day
Saints
Printing

Major periods, dates, events and important characters in the first four periods of Old Testament Salvation History.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What bothers me is demagogy. Here’s verbatim curriculum from a recent week in a Catholic School:

A few things we are learning:
Maps - our place in the world
Friends of Jesus
Printing
Markets around the world
The idea of addition

A few things we will be learning:
Gratitude for being sent to a Catholic School
Groundhog Day
Saints
Printing

Major periods, dates, events and important characters in the first four periods of Old Testament Salvation History.

The idea of addition? So this is for a preschool?

[Anonymous]

Catholic schools are used to educating non Catholics. I don't think it's a big deal. All over the world Catholics educate people of diverse religions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What bothers me is demagogy. Here’s verbatim curriculum from a recent week in a Catholic School:

A few things we are learning:
Maps - our place in the world
Friends of Jesus
Printing
Markets around the world
The idea of addition

A few things we will be learning:
Gratitude for being sent to a Catholic School
Groundhog Day
Saints
Printing

Major periods, dates, events and important characters in the first four periods of Old Testament Salvation History.

Well yeah. It’s a Catholic school. Either you’re Catholic (of the flavor that agrees with and wants that education, or of the flavor that doesn’t mind it), or you’re non-Catholic and willing to take the Catholic stuff with the rest of the education, balancing it with teaching your kid yourself about your outlook and beliefs (or non-beliefs).

I’m not Catholic and we looked at a couple Catholic schools and ultimately decided they weren’t right for us, but I do not understand this disbelief people seem to have that Catholic schools are teaching Catholic beliefs. What do you expect? Don’t send your kid there if you don’t like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Catholic schools are used to educating non Catholics. I don't think it's a big deal. All over the world Catholics educate people of diverse religions.

Of course they do. That’s the whole point. Catholic Church subsidizes the schools. Come on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What bothers me is demagogy. Here’s verbatim curriculum from a recent week in a Catholic School:

A few things we are learning:
Maps - our place in the world
Friends of Jesus
Printing
Markets around the world
The idea of addition

A few things we will be learning:
Gratitude for being sent to a Catholic School
Groundhog Day
Saints
Printing

Major periods, dates, events and important characters in the first four periods of Old Testament Salvation History.

Well yeah. It’s a Catholic school. Either you’re Catholic (of the flavor that agrees with and wants that education, or of the flavor that doesn’t mind it), or you’re non-Catholic and willing to take the Catholic stuff with the rest of the education, balancing it with teaching your kid yourself about your outlook and beliefs (or non-beliefs).

I’m not Catholic and we looked at a couple Catholic schools and ultimately decided they weren’t right for us, but I do not understand this disbelief people seem to have that Catholic schools are teaching Catholic beliefs. What do you expect? Don’t send your kid there if you don’t like it.

Exactly my point. But people are all like I’m atheist and I will tell them that and I will pay 20k instead of 40k and they’ll only indoctrinate the Catholics. Erm, wrong.

[Anonymous]

It’s a personal choice. Catholic Schools spread the Catholic ideology. Read your school’s and the respective regional catholic authority’s mission in detail and you’ll know how much.

The Big3 are far more expensive and each is overtly Christian but there is no religious homework.

Ask to see the prior homework assignments with a more religious bent in your chosen Catholic school. See if that’s ok for it with your child. Remember that that will take many hours over the school years and be graded. It will have effect on the psyche, including the infamous Catholic guilt, what got me is just how gory some of saints teachings were and so we left the deposit and went to another more expensive private.

And I am Christian and will occasionally attend the Catholic Mass, and it was not for the faint hearted. But no one talks about it.