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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are plenty of non-Catholic families at SJC. I hesitate to say a lot but Jewish kids are common. They do have to take religion (think morality and spirituality rather than straight Church doctrine) and attend Mass. Non-Catholic kids attend and don’t receive communion.

My Jewish child loves the school and doesn’t feel different at all. His religion class this year is more world religion. It reminded me of how little I have taught him about other religions. Yikes!

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Thank you! This is really exactly what I needed to know. [/quote]

This is pretty typical of Catholic education, btw. The doctrine part is more of a Sunday school/elementary school thing. In high school, since Catholics kids have (mostly) already gone through Confirmation, the doctrine is assumed to be known. So the religious classes are more about theology in general, morality, philosophy, the Big Question topics, and ethics.[/quote]

9th Grade religion starts with the Torah - the first 5 books of the Bible.  K - 8 is geared more to Catechism, so I was pleased they covered fundamentals in SJC religion.  [b]By Junior year they vear off into a bunch of SJW crap[/b] - it's amusing for most conservative Catholics, but I'd rather my kids take that as an elective than some nonsense public school elective.[/quote]

I don't understand.  I would think the junior year curriculum focusing on social justice would be an awesome experience for a child of any religion.  I love that my son is taking Ethics this year and a social justice class next year.  This is one of the main reasons we are paying for a private school education.  I am glad nobody is exempt from taking the classes.  Maybe it will keep away the riff raff.
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riff raff- so basically someone who doesn't share your beliefs and yet you want social justice and ethics????[/quote]

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