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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a Jewish friend who is teaching at a Catholic ES and she very much enjoys it. She respects the beliefs of the school but isn't expected to teach anything to do with the Catholic faith. It really depends on the school.

I am not pretending that this is the norm but there are plenty of Catholic schools that are not dogmatic. You just need to look at the specific school and understand their position.[/quote]

Could you name them? I mean dogma is literally part of what you learn at Catholic school. [/quote]

Right.  I would be shocked to learn of a catholic school that doesn't have some sort of religious service/chapel scheduled at least 1-2 times a week[/quote]

As far as I can tell all the Diocese of Arlington Catholic elementary schools now take kids to mass weekly (live-streamed at the moment in our kids' school), but in the two Catholic high schools where I have taught (one in Arlington, one in MD), Mass was monthly.  All students attended Mass together at every school I have been affiliated with as student/teacher/parent.  The Maryland school was about 50% Catholic, with the non-Catholic half mostly Baptist or other non-mainline Protestant.

OP, I agree with those saying you need to check out the school itself.  There's too much variety in the schools for anyone to really be able to tell you what your potential school is going to be like.  I would check it out without immediately bringing up the fact that you are not Catholic, so they don't inadvertently downplay stuff that is going to end up bugging you.  [/quote]

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