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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We moved from an independent Episcopal school for elementary that wasn’t super progressive, to a Catholic school for middle and it was tough on the kids and us, causing us to move back (and we’re forever grateful that our school took us back).  The kids felt the Catholic school was too strict, the instruction was boring (lots and lots of worksheets and rote memorization, more lectures, less discussions), the school tolerated bad/mean teachers, the religion classes were more intense (one of my kid’s teachers told the class that being gay was a sin).  The other parents were certainly nice to us, but it was clear that we’d never really be part of the groups where many parents had grown up together and others had all known each other since K when their kids started school.  There were many more SAH moms who volunteered at the school all the time, and as a working mom, I felt like an outsider.

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The Catholic Church teaches that gay sex is a sin (like premarital sex), but not that being gay itself is a sin. It also teaches that abortion is a sin, masturbation is a sin and artificial birth control is wrong. (A few of the above posters mention these teaching in their posts).

These are the teachings that non Catholic progressives (or even progressive Catholics) disagree with the most. It is perfectly understandable if you decide not to send your kids to a Catholic school because you disagree with its stances on these issues, but you can’t send you kids to Catholic school and then be shocked that a teacher mentions one of these teachings.  No matter how liberal the Catholic school, a sizable portion of the students and faculty believe these teachings and one way or another they will come up at school. Parents who disagree can teach their children differently at home, but can’t reasonably expect a Catholic school to stop teaching Catholic theology.

There are a lot of posts on this forum about non Catholics in Catholic schools. The responses from the Catholics almost universally say non Catholics are welcome as long as they are respectful. Respectful for many really means that non Catholic students and families don’t spend their time in Catholic schools arguing against Catholic teaching.

Yes, students in Catholic schools are free to voice their opinions no matter what they are, but it’s also a matter of degree. IMO Non Catholics who dominate discussion in religion class with arguments against Catholic teaching are not respectful. ( this has happened in my kids’ schools). [/quote]

This plus a billion.

I think sometimes people purposefully mischaracterize Catholic teachings.  No educated religion teacher is going to say experiencing opposite sex attraction is a sin.  It’s certain sexual acts (and maybe obsessive lustful thoughts) that are sins.[/quote]

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