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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Accepting all faiths and teaching about your faith are different things. You can be accommodating to allow other points of view while still asserting catholic teachings. Why even have a catholic school if you're not going to teach the faith? Would you expect a jewish high school not to be primarily jewish and teaching about jewish history and religion? I hear stories about OLGC in Olney and feel those schools might as well sever their tie with the catholic church with the way they dismiss teachings and fill their athletic rosters from all over the world just to have top talent. OP, you'd probably feel more comfortable in that type of school, but in my mind those are just private schools pretending to also be catholic schools.[/quote]

In his or her original post, the OP stated that the family was not Catholic and that they were not at all religious. They were concerned about sending their DC to the public schools and were looking for an alternative. That's not uncommon on DCUM. [b]Non-Catholic families are worried about the public schools and are looking for lower cost alternatives to the private schools[/b]. Catholic schools seem to fill that gap. But the parents are concerned about getting too big a dose of Catholic teaching. None of that icky (or Stupid" as one poster called it) Catholicism for us, that you.

They don't seem to understand the purpose of Catholic schools. All they know is that they have a problem and are shopping around for a solution.[/quote]

If that bothers you so much, why don't you write all the Catholic Schools in America and ask the Catholic schools to stop charging the more expensive, sometimes double, non-Catholic rate?  Seriously, you keep saying this and saying this and it is simply not true.  If you don't like the system, then get the Catholic Schools to stop accepting non-Catholics and charging the higher rates.  Done.[/quote]

[b]You miss the point.

Even at the higher Protestant rate, the Catholic schools are still a bargain versus the alternatives. And that's why Protestants end up at Catholic schools.

The Catholics aren't all stupid. We know why you are there. You are hitch-hiking om a system meant to propagate the Faith and build and unite the Catholic community.

While the Catholics are sending their kids to Catholic schools because we believe in their fundamental mission, sometimes at great sacrifice, for you it's a convenience. It's the result of your own cost-benefit analysis.

I know you don't think there is anything wrong with that or if you do, you just don't care. As long as you get yours.
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^^ Well, you have your answer, OP and any other non-Catholic considering paying the higher rate to have your child go to Catholic School.   DON'T DO IT!  Or will you be dealing with jerks like this ^^ who will think things about you that aren't true and gossip about you behind your back.  I could not have asked for a better example of why we didn't like Catholic School.  Because there are some very very ugly jugmental people there.  "Love thy neighbor as thyself" was never heard in the walls of my kid's Catholic school.  [/quote]

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