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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Absolutely not [/quote]

NP. Care to elaborate? [/quote]

The purpose of Catholic school is to educate Catholic children.  Not to be nearby, affordable, and small-but-not-too-small to non-Catholic children who will put up with Catholic teachings to escape from public school.  There are several non-Catholic students at my kids’ Diocesan K-8 school and, TBH, I’m not sure why they’re there.  They are excluded from receiving the sacraments and are surprised at how much parish life and school life overlap even though, once again, the purpose of Catholic schools is to educate Catholic children.[/quote]

The purpose of Catholic school is to educate children. Most are Catholic because there is a lot of Catholicism baked into the school day. But there are plenty of non-Catholic kids in Catholic schools. Some Catholics are more welcoming to children than others. You are an example of less-welcoming. WWJD?
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In the US, Catholic schools were formed to educate Catholic children—largely poor, immigrant children—who were not welcome at public schools.  No, Catholic schools don’t exist to educate non-Catholic children, and Catholicism in schools isn’t watered down to appeal to non-Catholic children.  I’m Catholic.  My children attend Catholic school.  I would never send my kids to an LDS school, for example, because I’m not Mormon.[/quote]

And you think all of the immigrant children educated by Catholic schools are Catholic? My mother taught in a DC Catholic school fifty years ago. Most of the students were poor and not Catholic. You just don’t like feeling that non-Catholics are somehow taking advantage of you and will demand your school change how it teaches. It’s a very insular view of Catholic education. [/quote]

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