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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My biggest takeaway from this thread is how bigoted and intolerant many of you are.

OP, I’m the mom of two kids in a Catholic school, 5th grade and 8th grade. We are also not catholic and we came to our school also because of location! Our public has a good reputation for academics, but we hate its size and our Catholic school is about 8 minutes from our house. We could have made a private work but we also wanted our kids to be in a “neighborhood” school so friends and activities would be part of our community.

I often forget the school is Catholic or even religious, ignoring that I drive past the church on its grounds daily and the school name as Saint in its name. Homework is rarely about anything related to religion. Our 5th grader recently did a project on saints. It wasn’t a “Catholic” project - our Christian faith also believes in saints. None of the parents have ever said anything to us about our faith. I think some know, kind of in the way you just happen to learn things about people over time. Certainly nobody from the school had ever made it an issue. My kids have never minded the weekly masses. The homily lessons have seemingly really been on a kid’s level - how to be a good friend and neighbor, how to do the right thing even when it is hard to do, how to forgive other people. I don’t think those are Catholic ideals per se but will let the righteous on this board tell me if I am wrong. I’m sure my kids got holy water sprinkled on them at some point. It hasn’t phased them. the priest certainly must know that some of the children are non Catholic. Doesn’t seem like it bothered him either.

The only times it has really been apparent are the sacrament years (second and eighth at our school)  when kids do some projects (workbooks, reflections) focused on those sacraments. They do the work in religious class because otherwise the kids would be doing it in Sunday school. [b]And sometimes, we will be out and about after school when the kids are still in their uniforms and will run into a friend or neighbor who will say “oh I didn’t realize you are catholic!” I explain that we just go to the school and all is well again. (As an aside, uniforms are AMAZING) [/b]

If you can live with all of that, you’ll be fine. As others have said, it really is not a thing about who is what religion or who goes to mass. The people on this thread claiming it is a thing are not living it daily. I am, and can tell you we remain very happy with our decision in the school. [/quote]

What exactly do you mean by the bolded, i.e., all is well again?  Is this to imply thank goodness they realize you aren't Catholic as if you would be embarrassed to be thought of that way.[/quote]

Goodness. Calm down. I’m that previous poster and all I meant is that it’s simply “not a thing”. I meant “all is well again” in that as soon as I explain that we aren’t catholic but the school was the best fit for our family and kids, nobody (literally nobody!!) has ever asked a follow up question about why my non Catholic family goes to a Catholic school.

I assume everyone who sees the school magnet on my car, who hears us talks about the school, or who sees us in school clothing assumes we are Catholic. And I think that’s a fair assumption and I could care less that people make it! If they ask, I explain. We are very proud of our school and happy to support it. It’s bizarre that you’d even suggest that someone would send their child (paying for it to boot) somewhere that “embarrassed” them.

I was trying to give OP some very honest feedback about my family’s experience as it seems like hers might be in a similar situation and there are so many people on this thread weighing in on a topic they do not have first hand experience on. I was trying to help.  No more no less. Always assume positive intent. [/quote]

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