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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the school is affiliated with a parish, are we expected to attend mass on the weekends at that parish? Do they check? Or can we just send in donations electronically? [/quote]

You are not expected to go to Mass at the parish that the school is affiliated with, but if you are Catholic you do have a Sunday obligation to attend Mass somewhere. Our school was very clear with us at orientation that if the children are getting one message from the school and a conflicting message from the home this can be very confusing for them once they begin preparations for First Communion--and Mass attendance is part of that (it can be distressing if they're taught at school that they have an obligation to attend Mass on Sundays, and then are unable to fulfill that obligation). That said, I've gone to the most conservative parishes now for a decade and a half, and never in that time have I heard a priest inquire of anyone when they last attended Mass or went to Confession. If I go to Mass at a different parish one week, the priest at my parish never asks me "where were you last week?".

I'm glad that our school is seamlessly integrated into the overall parish. Other than drop-off in the mornings and the occasional pickup (my wife usually does pickup) I wouldn't have many opportunities to meet other parents outside of social time after Sunday Mass. My daughter loves seeing her friends on Sundays at Mass. And I think it's great that she's learning that she's part of a multigenerational community ranging from babies born literally a couple weeks ago to elderly people contemplating the ends of their lives, rather than a community made exclusively of children and a few teachers. 
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