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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're not religious: we celebrate Xmas & Easter with trees, candy canes, presents, baskets, jelly beans, bunnies, etc. Kids have had no religious education at all, and in general we have no interest in sending them to a religious school. But we live in Alexandria, and want to give all local high school options serious consideration. Bishop Ireton is close to us, and several teachers have recommended that we consider it for HS.

Would a kid with no Catholic (or religious) background feel out of place at Ireton? Do non-Catholics fare less well in admissions? Would the kids be bombarded with anti-abortion messages (which would drive their liberal parents batty)? In other words, is Ireton a good high school that happens to be Catholic, the way Georgetown is a good university that happens to be Catholic? Or is Ireton Catholic in the same way Liberty University is Evangelical Christian?

thanks![/quote]

If your view of Georgetown is any example, you seem to be confused.

Just go back to the basics. Starting with the fact that Catholic schools are not in existence to give non-Catholics an alternative to the public schools or more expensive private schools.

They exist to support the propagation of the Faith. The students these schools attract are overwhelmingly Catholic except in the inner cities where they serve minorities as part of the mission of the Church. It's likely that the Catholics they attract are practicing Catholics and not those that are "Catholic in Name Only". Parents send their kids to these schools because they want them surrounded by the Catholic culture.

They may offer admissions to non-Catholics when they have space available.

Ireton is a diocesan school which means it is led by the local Bishop similar to Bishop O'Connell and Good Counsel. Some other schools --- Georgetown Prep, Gonzaga and St. John's are run by individual religious orders within the Catholic church.[/quote]

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