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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, seriously you just wrote that you want your kids to attend Catholic school because it’s close to your house?

It is a religion. The people that run those schools, participate in the parish life, give and fund the school in part, all the teachers, are there to raise and teach ALL the children the Catholic faith.

You’re okay with your child doing “prayer hands” every time they walk down the hall? Kneeling and praying and placing a flower at Mary’s statue on her day?  Your child being “sprinkled” with holy water on some feast days as the priest chants a prayer?  Lighting candles and placing them at the altar to honor all the children who have died in abortions?  These are just examples off the top of my head from my kids school. K , 3 and 7.

It is not a public school where they go to a religion class like an art class and your ignorance of this is what is making us Catholics a little crazy here.
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This thread is not making “us Catholics” crazy. I’m a lifelong Catholic with kids in Catholic school here. We are *barely* a Christmas/Easter mass family. I also have no idea who is Catholic at our school and who believes in aliens. We are at the school not because we believe anyone is there to educate our kids in the Catholic faith, but because of the quality of education (math, science,  writing and critical thinking being the curriculum we want strongest), the size and engagement of the school community, and the values (values are not the same as religion) our kids learn. I could care less if they learn church doctrine.

You don’t speak for Catholic parents and I see many other Catholic school parents in this thread who seem to have similar beliefs to my own.

Also curious if following Catholicism so closely is what made you such a welcoming and accepting person? You sound lovely. [/quote]

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