Catholic schools for atheists

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Anonymous wrote:I have a Jewish friend who is teaching at a Catholic ES and she very much enjoys it. She respects the beliefs of the school but isn't expected to teach anything to do with the Catholic faith. It really depends on the school.

I am not pretending that this is the norm but there are plenty of Catholic schools that are not dogmatic. You just need to look at the specific school and understand their position.

Could you name them? I mean dogma is literally part of what you learn at Catholic school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have a Jewish friend who is teaching at a Catholic ES and she very much enjoys it. She respects the beliefs of the school but isn't expected to teach anything to do with the Catholic faith. It really depends on the school.

I am not pretending that this is the norm but there are plenty of Catholic schools that are not dogmatic. You just need to look at the specific school and understand their position.

Could you name them? I mean dogma is literally part of what you learn at Catholic school.

Right. I would be shocked to learn of a catholic school that doesn't have some sort of religious service/chapel scheduled at least 1-2 times a week

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a Jewish friend who is teaching at a Catholic ES and she very much enjoys it. She respects the beliefs of the school but isn't expected to teach anything to do with the Catholic faith. It really depends on the school.

I am not pretending that this is the norm but there are plenty of Catholic schools that are not dogmatic. You just need to look at the specific school and understand their position.

Could you name them? I mean dogma is literally part of what you learn at Catholic school.

Right. I would be shocked to learn of a catholic school that doesn't have some sort of religious service/chapel scheduled at least 1-2 times a week

Scheduled doesn’t mean you have to attend. Even in the 1980s, the Hindu and Muslim girls at my school were exempt from weekly Mass. They were allowed to sit in the library or the courtyard if the weather was nice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have a Jewish friend who is teaching at a Catholic ES and she very much enjoys it. She respects the beliefs of the school but isn't expected to teach anything to do with the Catholic faith. It really depends on the school.

I am not pretending that this is the norm but there are plenty of Catholic schools that are not dogmatic. You just need to look at the specific school and understand their position.

Could you name them? I mean dogma is literally part of what you learn at Catholic school.

Right. I would be shocked to learn of a catholic school that doesn't have some sort of religious service/chapel scheduled at least 1-2 times a week

Scheduled doesn’t mean you have to attend. Even in the 1980s, the Hindu and Muslim girls at my school were exempt from weekly Mass. They were allowed to sit in the library or the courtyard if the weather was nice.

Everyone has to attend Mass at my dd's middle - Catholic or not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have a Jewish friend who is teaching at a Catholic ES and she very much enjoys it. She respects the beliefs of the school but isn't expected to teach anything to do with the Catholic faith. It really depends on the school.

I am not pretending that this is the norm but there are plenty of Catholic schools that are not dogmatic. You just need to look at the specific school and understand their position.

Could you name them? I mean dogma is literally part of what you learn at Catholic school.

Right. I would be shocked to learn of a catholic school that doesn't have some sort of religious service/chapel scheduled at least 1-2 times a week

As far as I can tell all the Diocese of Arlington Catholic elementary schools now take kids to mass weekly (live-streamed at the moment in our kids' school), but in the two Catholic high schools where I have taught (one in Arlington, one in MD), Mass was monthly. All students attended Mass together at every school I have been affiliated with as student/teacher/parent. The Maryland school was about 50% Catholic, with the non-Catholic half mostly Baptist or other non-mainline Protestant.

OP, I agree with those saying you need to check out the school itself. There's too much variety in the schools for anyone to really be able to tell you what your potential school is going to be like. I would check it out without immediately bringing up the fact that you are not Catholic, so they don't inadvertently downplay stuff that is going to end up bugging you.

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Anonymous wrote:Catholic school is an extension of the parish, not a refuge from crappy public schools.

Sure it's a refuge from crappy publics, but it's also a refuge that favors Catholics before others.

Oh please. They aren’t free. They happily take tuition money from anyone willing to pay

Almost always subsidized.

[Anonymous]

Most of my Muslim Indian friends attended Catholic schools in India. Didn't phase them, the education was the goal and Catholic schools in many places do that very very well. Some plan to send their children, still Muslim, to Catholic schools here in the DMV.

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My DDs friend is converting to Catholicism. fortunately her atheist parents are ok with it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Catholic school is an extension of the parish, not a refuge from crappy public schools.

Sure it's a refuge from crappy publics, but it's also a refuge that favors Catholics before others.

Oh please. They aren’t free. They happily take tuition money from anyone willing to pay

Almost always subsidized.

They are usually income based and an additional discount if you are member of the parish affiliated with the school. Plenty of families pay full tuition due to their income and belonging to a different church/place of worship or none at all.

[Anonymous]

OP- there have been threads on this on the private school forum if you would like to search that thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a Christian I would be pretty annoyed if my kids’ Christian school that I specifically selected for being a Christian school was letting in atheist families.

Then I guess you should move to a country where religious affiliation isn’t a protected class and discrimination based on religion isn’t prohibited. Rejecting for admission non-Christian students would be a hard one to get past Title IX: The school would have to claim that admitting such students violates an established tenet of their religious practice. In fact, Catholic schools often admit non-Catholics in hopes of using their religious practice as a positive model in the lives of others—sort of evangelicalism-lite.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Catholic school is an extension of the parish, not a refuge from crappy public schools.

Sure it's a refuge from crappy publics, but it's also a refuge that favors Catholics before others.

Oh please. They aren’t free. They happily take tuition money from anyone willing to pay

Almost always subsidized.

They are usually income based and an additional discount if you are member of the parish affiliated with the school. Plenty of families pay full tuition due to their income and belonging to a different church/place of worship or none at all.

“Full” tuition typically is already subsidized nonetheless.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Catholic school is an extension of the parish, not a refuge from crappy public schools.

Sure it's a refuge from crappy publics, but it's also a refuge that favors Catholics before others.

Oh please. They aren’t free. They happily take tuition money from anyone willing to pay

Almost always subsidized.

They are usually income based and an additional discount if you are member of the parish affiliated with the school. Plenty of families pay full tuition due to their income and belonging to a different church/place of worship or none at all.

“Full” tuition typically is already subsidized nonetheless.

NP. Full tuition is subsidized by who? Just say what you’re trying to say.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our public schools are pretty terrible where we are currently. There isn’t a good option for secular private school past elementary. There is a good catholic private school, though we are not religious. Has anyone went or sent their children to catholic school if they are a different religion or no religion? If so, how was the experience?

We are not religious and our kids attend an independent Catholic school. It’s not a big deal. And this year there have apparently been so many non-Catholic families that they have actually mentioned it. Some of the new families are questioning the religious aspect of their kids’ education

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Anonymous wrote:Catholic school is an extension of the parish, not a refuge from crappy public schools.

Sure it's a refuge from crappy publics, but it's also a refuge that favors Catholics before others.

Oh please. They aren’t free. They happily take tuition money from anyone willing to pay

Almost always subsidized.

They are usually income based and an additional discount if you are member of the parish affiliated with the school. Plenty of families pay full tuition due to their income and belonging to a different church/place of worship or none at all.

“Full” tuition typically is already subsidized nonetheless.

NP. Full tuition is subsidized by who? Just say what you’re trying to say.

Its pretty simple to understand that the Catholic Church, either locally or on a larger scale, helps pay for the Catholic schools. The parishes contribute via tithing, and other monies are received from the church. The reason parishoners get a lower rate is because they are presumed to be already tithing to the church associated with the school.

FWIW, in my experience only actual registered parishoners get the lower rate. We were accepted to a nearby Parochial and it would have been full pay despite the fact we are Catholic because it was not our church and therefore we had not been tithing there. I have no problem with this.