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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Friend’s kids go to local Catholic school for 3rd grade and 5th grade. It seems like every other day they go to mass, have some prayer event, have a student assembly, etc. Do kids at these schools have enough instruction time for ACADEMICS?

How do they compete with public and non-religious schools whose total number of school days are the same (or more) but without all the religious extracurricular? [/quote]

DC’s Episcopal school has 20-45 minutes each day for some kind of group thing—weekly chapel, school assembly, advisory meeting, club time, etc. It does not impact the academics. NCS (which is not DC’s school, but which I attended) has a weekly chapel (more like an assembly than a full religious service) and a weekly Cathedral service. No one is arguing NCS isn’t rigorous—quite the opposite, in fact. Yes, there is more focus on religion in terms of both academics and non-academic events at a Catholic school, but it’s not that unbalanced, and the religious focus is important to most of the students and families. Religion classes aren’t just an extra thing to get through, they are considered core curriculum just like math and English. It’s why Catholics want to sent their children there. I’m not Catholic and while we looked at a Catholic school we decided against it because the focus on religion was not right for us, but I do not understand this board’s general difficulty in grasping that the religion is the point for the Catholic families who attend, and non-Catholics need to accept and respect that or look elsewhere. [/quote]

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