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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some people are active in their church and move their kid to their parish school after elementary school.

Some apply out after 3rd to schools that start / have expansion in 4th.

I do not know anyone who had realistic expectations who got "shut-out"[/quote]

That's good to hear. I think our expectations are realistic although I don't want to send my kids to a religious school - will that eliminate a lot of the options?

I don't really care about getting into the "best" school, I just want a middle and high school option for my kids that is safe and academically challenging. [/quote]

Yes, "no religious schools" will remove a lot of options. Wipes out the entire lower-cost section of the market, much of the midrange, and a reasonable proportion of the extremely pricey schools. Though even the low-cost private schools in this area are not cheap. What's your budget and your flexibility? The standard other option is to high-tail it to the suburbs.[/quote]

But there's also a pretty wide range of what "no religious" means. Growing up I went to a private school that was ostensibly episcopal. We had one non-denominational "chapel" service a week, that sometimes never mentioned god at all. We also had to take a handful of comparative religion classes, the most significant of which involved reading Genesis, parts of the new Testament, the Tao Te Ching, modern atheist literature and talking about why we didn't like organized religion. Most students were Jewish and nobody knew what the rest were because we never discussed it. Except for some of the Catholic schools, none of the major "religious" schools around here are going to have much more than a brief and basic non-denominational chapel and comparative religion. And even the Catholic schools will be happy to take atheists if your money is green.[/quote]

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