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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For me it would depend on whether it's a diocese school or not. We briefly looked at the diocese schools because they're cheap, but didn't like the required religion classes that really did seem to be promoting Catholicism (understandably for that audience).

As a Jewish family, we're not comfortable with that level of religious education for our kid.

Other flavors of Catholic schools could be fine. I went to Georgetown for undergrad and felt fine as a Jewish student.[/quote]

I am also a GU grad and a Catholic.

I can assure you there is almost no similarity between the attitudes of staff, teachers, parents and students at Georgetown and any Catholic school I have seen here in DC. I just know the parishes in NW DC and the lower part of Western MoCo.

These schools are promoting the Catholic faith as you intuited. Or “reinforcing” it, as we like to think. That’s why they exist.

Non- Catholic kids are going to understand that they are different from the majority as a result of dozens or even hundreds of things that they see or hear or that happen.

I often wonder if these kids convert to Catholicism later in life as a result of being imprinted not only with all the teachings of the Church, but also with all the other “cultural” things the encounter everyday.

I wouldn’t know what happens at a Catholic school where non-Catholics are in the minority as was suggested above. [/quote]

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