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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP I'm a product of Catholic school (K - 12, nuns, uniforms), I'm very much not religious at all now.  I'm moving my child to Catholic School this month (4th grade) because I don't feel my Title one FCPS is cutting it.  I've told my child to be respectful, listen to the religious lessons, and make up her own mind about what she wants to believe in her heart.

The Catholic schools I've looked at teach the equivalent of FLE (sex ed) and that's an ongoing conversation I have with my kids anyway.  I feel that the smaller classes, uniforms, and stricter discipline will be a plus.

I don't care about the race of her classmates.  I do think that sending your kids to a school you have to pay for means you are going to get a group of kids whose parents take education very seriously.  Which is a good start for a  potential friend/peer group.

And if we don't like it, we can always go back to public.[/quote]

I'm doing the same.  I'm actually an atheist (former Catholic) sending my kids to Catholic HS.  For a variety of academic reasons (safety as well, bad experience in public MS).  They haven't been raised in religion at all, and the mandatory theology class has been tough.  We explained to DS' teacher about his non-religious background and he was appreciative of that information.  I told DS it's good to still learn it and understand where some people are coming from, their frame of reference.  I am excited about when he finally gets to World Religions, I think that's a very important class.

Anyway, on a daily basis they do start classes with prayer, they do have mass about monthly.  There's a good number of non-Catholics (30%) who are welcome to go up at Communion and receive a blessing instead of communion, so these kids feel included.  The school priest is fantastic, perfect for young people.

They have had sex ed, which was abstinence-only, and like PP said that's a conversation DS and I have on a continuing basis and he knows my thoughts.  Same with other Catholic Church beliefs that I don't agree with.

But the education and personal attention has been worth it to us.[/quote]

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