Blessed Sacrament for Jewish family?
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Weekly Mass has been around for decades before Trump. |
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Hi OP -- I am a current BS parent. I actually don't know the religion of my child's classmates - some may be Jewish, atheist, Episcopalian, etc. for all I know. DH and I both Catholic. I'd just say you will need to embrace the religious aspects of the education. I'm not suggesting that you'd embrace it to the point of conversion, but showing respect and talking about it as you'd talk about history or other subjects, and discussing it with your kid to compare and contrast with the Jewish faith and how your family practices religion. I think it would be hard for a kid to be taught one thing during the day, and then have it dismissed as silly or wrong when they get home, so finding a way to meaningfully navigate your differences with what's taught in school will be important.
I'd agree with statements made from PPs who discussed the multigenerational ties to the school. There's a lot of that. You can view it as pro or a con. There are a lot of families who are deeply invested in the school's success and put a lot of their time and resources into it. |
Anonymous
Pretty much impossible to get into BSS in K unless you are a parishioner. You may have better luck in 4th grade onwards, when a lot of BSS families bolt to 4th-12th grade schools. |
Anonymous
Non religious Jewish families you mean |
Anonymous
Yes, like OP |
Anonymous
I guarantee the kids know. |
Anonymous
This. 1000% this. |
Anonymous
| For what it's worth, I watched BS kids on a field trip be horribly behaved. |
Anonymous
Yikes! |
Anonymous
Wow-really living those Christian values there aren’t you? Do you limit yourself to badmouthing kids you don’t know or do you kick puppies for fun too? |
Anonymous
Why do they switch from 4th on? |
Anonymous
| Not sure OP. I come from a Catholic/Jewish family ( mom+ dad respectively). It might be ok but make sure to visit the school. I went to 12 years of Catholic School, and had message of Catholics can go to heaven, but not others. That was confusing to me as a kid. |
Anonymous
As a current BS family, it does give these vibes and the multi-generational thing is definitely there. However, having just graduated an 8th grader who turned down one of those schools and having received the newsletter yesterday, a third of the class is attending St. John’s this year, a marked difference from just the previous year. Not even 1/4 of the girls are going to Visi versus last year when, if I recall correctly, more than half the girls went that way. Almost 1/2 the girls are going to St. John’s. I will note that with two working parents I find it nearly impossible to manage the daytime asks, last minute asks for baked goods, etc., especially with multiple children there. We miss a lot of these types of “come to the classroom to see your child do x y or z” things as at times there are multiple in the same week. I also wish they would ask up front for a fee for all the variety of donations, fundraisers, etc. I’d much rather give you another $500 than be asked for money to fill a baby bottle, sell frozen food, donation to sisters of the whatever, $10 for this field trip, etc. It’s exhausting. On a final note, we are Catholic, but a different parish. The children attend mass once a month and while the sacrament years are more highly Catholicism focused, the other years have a strong social justice bent. We have attended mass at BS many times now (we like it better than our home parish) and very very rarely do we see more than one or two of any of my kids’ classmates at mass. |
Anonymous
| I think if this was a high school, it would be doable. For K-8 I’m not sure I’d do it |
Anonymous
Yea that’s because you imposed your own biases on your kids. You could have avoided that. |