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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, my children have been in various religious schools, and so was I as a child.

Absolutely do not send your children to a school that is a fundamentalist Protestant sect that thinks the earth is 6,500 years old, etc.  BTDT as a kid, it was ridiculous and I KNEW it was wrong.  I just felt my teachers were idiots.

My children have been to 3 different Catholic schools -- a parish school (too strict/teach to the test like public), a Montessori (taken over by nonreligious people and thus no real religious aspect remained, education was fine), and now they are attending a classical school.

I much prefer the classical school.  The interweaving of traditional education is not about memorization, as some classical school critics want to suggest.  Sure, they have spelling words like everyone else -- but the integrated curriculum weaving ideas from literature through science and math are really an exceptional, whole child way to learn.  Like another PP, I also like that they move the children to what math group they fit in best with, not tied to grade level.  They also learn Latin, which many think is not useful but as a philology minor, I think it is a wonderful base.  They have 3 recesses a day so elementary boys are stuck in desks for hours.

The upside, too, is that the teachers are extremely overeducated.  Most are Ph.D.s who did not get a tenure track job in theology.   Many of the teachers are men, which is nice as I have sons and having male role models from a young age is good.

The downside is that if you are not at least on board with Catholic teaching, you aren't going to be very happy with the program.  They have Mass first thing every morning.  The school teaches in the Catholic faith.  It is full of families of strong faith, not Easter and Christmas Catholics.

I myself am a Protestant, but my DH is Catholic and[b] I would like my children to be strong Catholics[/b].  If you are uncomfortable with discussions about hard topics, probably not for you.[/quote]

No telling how kids turn out.   Some parents want their kids to be strong athletes or strong musicians or whatever and it just doesn't happen that way.   Kids have minds of their own.[/quote]

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