St Marys versus St Louis

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you don't want weekly mass, don't go to a parochial school. How hard is that to get?

I love the Friday mass. I get to sleep in on Sundays! Mass for the kids is already taken care of! Priceless.

And fortunately for my kids, they have a SAHP who can compensate for the lost academics at home. Sucks for those kids who don’t have that, but oh well.

You sound absolutely miserable.

Me? I’m very happy. No complaints here. They can go to mass 5x a week for all I care - most school nowadays is basically a glorified daycare anyway. My kids learn the important stuff — what they need to know — at home. Parochial school works for us bc it’s safer and we like the exposure to religion/values. I don’t obsess about how the day is organized.

Go to mass all day if it makes you feel better about yourself — just have the kids ready on time for pickup, and don’t whine when they’re absent for family vacations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't want weekly mass, don't go to a parochial school. How hard is that to get?

I love the Friday mass. I get to sleep in on Sundays! Mass for the kids is already taken care of! Priceless.

And fortunately for my kids, they have a SAHP who can compensate for the lost academics at home. Sucks for those kids who don’t have that, but oh well.

You sound absolutely miserable.

Me? I’m very happy. No complaints here. They can go to mass 5x a week for all I care - most school nowadays is basically a glorified daycare anyway. My kids learn the important stuff — what they need to know — at home. Parochial school works for us bc it’s safer and we like the exposure to religion/values. I don’t obsess about how the day is organized.

Go to mass all day if it makes you feel better about yourself — just have the kids ready on time for pickup, and don’t whine when they’re absent for family vacations.

“No complaints here” after doing nothing but complaining.

“They can go to Mass five days a week for all I care”…that’s not the impression you’ve been giving.

If you are doing such an amazing job as a SAHP who is teaching your kids everything they need to know, why don’t you homeschool? Seriously. Maybe it’s because teaching and being fully on the hook for your children’s progress isn’t actually that easy. But spouting off about how bad something is and how amazing you are doesn’t take much effort.

I’m moving to the area and interested in local privates. But if they’re full of people like you, I should save my money and send kids to the neighborhood school instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't want weekly mass, don't go to a parochial school. How hard is that to get?

I love the Friday mass. I get to sleep in on Sundays! Mass for the kids is already taken care of! Priceless.

And fortunately for my kids, they have a SAHP who can compensate for the lost academics at home. Sucks for those kids who don’t have that, but oh well.

You sound absolutely miserable.

Me? I’m very happy. No complaints here. They can go to mass 5x a week for all I care - most school nowadays is basically a glorified daycare anyway. My kids learn the important stuff — what they need to know — at home. Parochial school works for us bc it’s safer and we like the exposure to religion/values. I don’t obsess about how the day is organized.

Go to mass all day if it makes you feel better about yourself — just have the kids ready on time for pickup, and don’t whine when they’re absent for family vacations.

“No complaints here” after doing nothing but complaining.

“They can go to Mass five days a week for all I care”…that’s not the impression you’ve been giving.

If you are doing such an amazing job as a SAHP who is teaching your kids everything they need to know, why don’t you homeschool? Seriously. Maybe it’s because teaching and being fully on the hook for your children’s progress isn’t actually that easy. But spouting off about how bad something is and how amazing you are doesn’t take much effort.

I’m moving to the area and interested in local privates. But if they’re full of people like you, I should save my money and send kids to the neighborhood school instead.

What a tolerant, patient, kind Catholic you are. Mass 3x a week is doing wonders for you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't want weekly mass, don't go to a parochial school. How hard is that to get?

I love the Friday mass. I get to sleep in on Sundays! Mass for the kids is already taken care of! Priceless.

And fortunately for my kids, they have a SAHP who can compensate for the lost academics at home. Sucks for those kids who don’t have that, but oh well.

You sound absolutely miserable.

Me? I’m very happy. No complaints here. They can go to mass 5x a week for all I care - most school nowadays is basically a glorified daycare anyway. My kids learn the important stuff — what they need to know — at home. Parochial school works for us bc it’s safer and we like the exposure to religion/values. I don’t obsess about how the day is organized.

Go to mass all day if it makes you feel better about yourself — just have the kids ready on time for pickup, and don’t whine when they’re absent for family vacations.

“No complaints here” after doing nothing but complaining.

“They can go to Mass five days a week for all I care”…that’s not the impression you’ve been giving.

If you are doing such an amazing job as a SAHP who is teaching your kids everything they need to know, why don’t you homeschool? Seriously. Maybe it’s because teaching and being fully on the hook for your children’s progress isn’t actually that easy. But spouting off about how bad something is and how amazing you are doesn’t take much effort.

I’m moving to the area and interested in local privates. But if they’re full of people like you, I should save my money and send kids to the neighborhood school instead.

What a tolerant, patient, kind Catholic you are. Mass 3x a week is doing wonders for you!

I’m not Catholic. I’m applying logic to everything you’ve been spewing while researching private schools as a whole. You are not logical. You are angry.

[Anonymous]

Good grief, if you don’t like what Catholic schools have to offer then don’t go. I’m with other PP’s why is this is a difficult concept. Don’t like mass/religion/math/etc? Then leave. I am sure there are others waiting to take your spot. I know there are at the two Catholic schools my DC attend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't want weekly mass, don't go to a parochial school. How hard is that to get?

I love the Friday mass. I get to sleep in on Sundays! Mass for the kids is already taken care of! Priceless.

And fortunately for my kids, they have a SAHP who can compensate for the lost academics at home. Sucks for those kids who don’t have that, but oh well.

You sound absolutely miserable.

Me? I’m very happy. No complaints here. They can go to mass 5x a week for all I care - most school nowadays is basically a glorified daycare anyway. My kids learn the important stuff — what they need to know — at home. Parochial school works for us bc it’s safer and we like the exposure to religion/values. I don’t obsess about how the day is organized.

Go to mass all day if it makes you feel better about yourself — just have the kids ready on time for pickup, and don’t whine when they’re absent for family vacations.

Why aren’t you homeschooling?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't want weekly mass, don't go to a parochial school. How hard is that to get?

I love the Friday mass. I get to sleep in on Sundays! Mass for the kids is already taken care of! Priceless.

And fortunately for my kids, they have a SAHP who can compensate for the lost academics at home. Sucks for those kids who don’t have that, but oh well.

You know you're supposed to keep going to mass and confession after you're confirmed, right?

Why on earth are your kids at a parochial school if you hate it this much? Why not choose an independent with strong ancademics and supplement with CCD?
(I'm guessing you can't afford it, but that's neither here nor there)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This whole conversation is silly. You can have religious education by *integrating* religion into math, reading, science, social studies, etc. Kill two birds with one stone. For example, use religious texts to teach reading. Use religious examples to teach math. Teach the wonder of God’s creation through science. And so on.

The notion that Catholic education “requires” weekly mass or repetitive sacrament prep *during the school day* is absurd, lazy, and old-fashioned.

How many kids — especially younger kids — get anything out of mass during the school day? If you want a true “Catholic education,” there are better ways to do it. Does Notre Dame or other Catholic colleges require weekly Mass during classes? Why not? Are they providing an inferior “Catholic education”?

If you call the celebration of Mass (at anytime of the week) “absurd, lazy, and old fashioned” you truly do not understand what the significance of Mass is in Catholicism.

I guess colleges like Notre Dame and most Catholic high schools are just heretics then. None requires students to attend mass on a weekday, every week, during school hours. Mass is for SUNDAYS, with family. Not at 9 am on weekdays during school.

ND and catholic high schools offer mass on campus either daily or nearly daily. The difference is the students are older and in charge of their own schedules for the most part. That’s not the case at K-8s, so those kids attend mass as a group, typically once a week.

I have no idea why you have such strong opinions about mass at Catholic schools. If you don’t like it, don’t send your kids there.

[Anonymous]

Notice how most of these posts (likely from the same person) don’t actually defend Mass on Fridays or attempt to persuade anyone why Friday Mass is a good idea or important for a Catholic education.

Instead, all they do is (a) repeat how “every other school goes to mass weekly,” or (b) scream, “it’s always been like that, so if you don’t like it, leave!”

Sad. But I guess that’s the sort of critical-thinking skills you get when you spend much of k-8 going to mass and assemblies and parties rather than on academics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Notice how most of these posts (likely from the same person) don’t actually defend Mass on Fridays or attempt to persuade anyone why Friday Mass is a good idea or important for a Catholic education.

Instead, all they do is (a) repeat how “every other school goes to mass weekly,” or (b) scream, “it’s always been like that, so if you don’t like it, leave!”

Sad. But I guess that’s the sort of critical-thinking skills you get when you spend much of k-8 going to mass and assemblies and parties rather than on academics.

I think no matter what anyone offers up, you will dislike the answer, but here goes an actual Catholic answer.
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/why-go-to-mass#


I guess I’m mystified why you would continue to pay money for something you claim isn’t doing the job. You’ve stated you are a SAHP, and you are doing all the work of educating. If the community is so problematic, why not homeschool as has been suggested?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Notice how most of these posts (likely from the same person) don’t actually defend Mass on Fridays or attempt to persuade anyone why Friday Mass is a good idea or important for a Catholic education.

Instead, all they do is (a) repeat how “every other school goes to mass weekly,” or (b) scream, “it’s always been like that, so if you don’t like it, leave!”

Sad. But I guess that’s the sort of critical-thinking skills you get when you spend much of k-8 going to mass and assemblies and parties rather than on academics.

Unclear why you think anyone is required to persuade you of the value of the school community coming together to for Mass and to share the gifts of grace once per week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Notice how most of these posts (likely from the same person) don’t actually defend Mass on Fridays or attempt to persuade anyone why Friday Mass is a good idea or important for a Catholic education.

Instead, all they do is (a) repeat how “every other school goes to mass weekly,” or (b) scream, “it’s always been like that, so if you don’t like it, leave!”

Sad. But I guess that’s the sort of critical-thinking skills you get when you spend much of k-8 going to mass and assemblies and parties rather than on academics.

Unclear why you think anyone is required to persuade you of the value of the school community coming together to for Mass and to share the gifts of grace once per week.

Once again, just more deflection and flimsy responses. No substantive argument at all.

And nobody has a problem with the community coming together for mass once a week. It’s called Sunday Mass. Sorry you wouldn’t be able to sleep in.

[Anonymous]

Why all the focus on Mass? That’s minor, IMO. If St Marys wants to improve academics, they need to scrap all the silly half days, assemblies, movie parties, bogus snow days, etc. Doing that would leave plenty of time for mass and much more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Notice how most of these posts (likely from the same person) don’t actually defend Mass on Fridays or attempt to persuade anyone why Friday Mass is a good idea or important for a Catholic education.

Instead, all they do is (a) repeat how “every other school goes to mass weekly,” or (b) scream, “it’s always been like that, so if you don’t like it, leave!”

Sad. But I guess that’s the sort of critical-thinking skills you get when you spend much of k-8 going to mass and assemblies and parties rather than on academics.

Unclear why you think anyone is required to persuade you of the value of the school community coming together to for Mass and to share the gifts of grace once per week.

Once again, just more deflection and flimsy responses. No substantive argument at all.

And nobody has a problem with the community coming together for mass once a week. It’s called Sunday Mass. Sorry you wouldn’t be able to sleep in.

You make no sense, or perhaps have not been well catechized. School Mass does not take the place of Sunday Mass. Sunday Mass is a religious obligation -you don’t get to sub out another day to fulfill the obligation. The people lobbying for and defending school Mass are probably the least likely people to be skipping Sunday Mass. What exactly is the point you are trying to make? You don’t sound as if you actually understand Catholic teaching.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Notice how most of these posts (likely from the same person) don’t actually defend Mass on Fridays or attempt to persuade anyone why Friday Mass is a good idea or important for a Catholic education.

Instead, all they do is (a) repeat how “every other school goes to mass weekly,” or (b) scream, “it’s always been like that, so if you don’t like it, leave!”

Sad. But I guess that’s the sort of critical-thinking skills you get when you spend much of k-8 going to mass and assemblies and parties rather than on academics.

Unclear why you think anyone is required to persuade you of the value of the school community coming together to for Mass and to share the gifts of grace once per week.

Once again, just more deflection and flimsy responses. No substantive argument at all.

And nobody has a problem with the community coming together for mass once a week. It’s called Sunday Mass. Sorry you wouldn’t be able to sleep in.

The school community is a different community than the one that gathers on Sunday. A weekday school Mass provides special graces specific to that community.

Where’s the deflection?

Why do you send your children to a school you do not respect or trust?