Anonymous
Post 11/10/2024 21:43     Subject: Nonreligious family sending child to religious school
Anonymous wrote:OP here. Every day has prayer and a lot of the reading is thematic, but on our visit the books they read in the class was not religious. I was also impressed with the curricular choices, and the kids were nice.
I liked at least one of the teachers very much. It's hard to say. Am I ready to counterract this at home, and what is the chance that she is an outsider because we don't follow the same protocols at home?
That's the trouble really.


I guess I just don't understand why you would marry someone who is religious if you feel that you need to counteract this at home. Do you undermine your spouse trying to teach them the faith?
Anonymous
Post 11/07/2024 17:50     Subject: Nonreligious family sending child to religious school
Well, depends on what school.
Quaker, yes.
Episcopalian, yes.
Catholic, probably not.
Anonymous
Post 10/30/2024 21:24     Subject: Nonreligious family sending child to religious school
I wouldn't, but also, there are considerations like "what are the public schools like?" In northern VA, almost all the public schools are as good or better than the private ones, so the only reason I'd see to shell out the money would be for the religious element.

Literally know a family who put their kids in private religious school to get away from the "bad" neighborhood school, only to transfer them out last year and they found that the local school is more challenging than the private.
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2024 19:44     Subject: Re:Nonreligious family sending child to religious school
Yes, Jesuit school. Strong academic tradition, good values, some religion, yes but lots of non Catholics attend.
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2024 19:38     Subject: Nonreligious family sending child to religious school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If you are interfaith or not religious yourself, and your spouse is, would you send an elementary school age child to a school that is excellent, but also interweaves the religion into everything on a daily basis?


If they truly do this, I wouldn't send a child there even if of the same religion. It's indoctrination.


This post made me laugh. Almost like indoctrination is the entire point of religious schools.


All school is indoctrination.
Anonymous
Post 10/15/2024 16:26     Subject: Nonreligious family sending child to religious school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If you are interfaith or not religious yourself, and your spouse is, would you send an elementary school age child to a school that is excellent, but also interweaves the religion into everything on a daily basis?


NP. We did this. Sent kids to Catholic school. It was an extremely positive experience, and my kids (now late teens/college-aged) have expressed how glad they are they had the experience.

We are atheist.


PP here. Also, my kids moved to Catholic after public school and viewed (and still view) that change as a strong positive change.
Anonymous
Post 10/15/2024 16:24     Subject: Nonreligious family sending child to religious school
Anonymous wrote:If you are interfaith or not religious yourself, and your spouse is, would you send an elementary school age child to a school that is excellent, but also interweaves the religion into everything on a daily basis?


NP. We did this. Sent kids to Catholic school. It was an extremely positive experience, and my kids (now late teens/college-aged) have expressed how glad they are they had the experience.

We are atheist.
Anonymous
Post 10/15/2024 16:22     Subject: Nonreligious family sending child to religious school
Not for elementary. I did go to a Catholic high school and I am not Catholic, but it was a very special school. I'd send my kids in a heartbeat if I lived near it now.
Anonymous
Post 10/15/2024 09:22     Subject: Nonreligious family sending child to religious school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If you are interfaith or not religious yourself, and your spouse is, would you send an elementary school age child to a school that is excellent, but also interweaves the religion into everything on a daily basis?


If they truly do this, I wouldn't send a child there even if of the same religion. It's indoctrination.


This post made me laugh. Almost like indoctrination is the entire point of religious schools.
Anonymous
Post 10/15/2024 08:06     Subject: Nonreligious family sending child to religious school
Anonymous wrote:Applicants from small private religious schools (Christian, Muslim or Jewish) tend to stand out among sea of public school applicants. They've an advantage at Ivies and top SLACs. Mostly because their school principals and counselors are really invested in getting them accepted so they can flaunt those statistics to attract more tuition payers while public schools counselors don't care and have too many kids to give individual attention.


This is an opinion, only, and in this case, a false one.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2024 21:51     Subject: Nonreligious family sending child to religious school
Applicants from small private religious schools (Christian, Muslim or Jewish) tend to stand out among sea of public school applicants. They've an advantage at Ivies and top SLACs. Mostly because their school principals and counselors are really invested in getting them accepted so they can flaunt those statistics to attract more tuition payers while public schools counselors don't care and have too many kids to give individual attention.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2024 09:54     Subject: Nonreligious family sending child to religious school
I did, but not for elementary. It had no effect on my child's religious beliefs. In fact, he seems to really dislike religion - says he got sick of it.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2024 09:12     Subject: Nonreligious family sending child to religious school
Anonymous wrote:Most of the kids nowadays turn atheists anyways. If you can't teach them your religion, what are the real odds of school teaching them some other religion?


Do they? All the adult atheists I know were originally taught a religion at home. Some at school too.
Anonymous
Post 10/13/2024 21:50     Subject: Nonreligious family sending child to religious school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Our school is like this, but none of it has rubbed off on our child. He tolerates the religious stuff - barely - but could not be less interested (or indoctrinated).

Catholic schools create more atheists than any others institution in the world


That's how I became one.


I know a few too.
Anonymous
Post 10/13/2024 14:29     Subject: Nonreligious family sending child to religious school
Anonymous wrote:If you are interfaith or not religious yourself, and your spouse is, would you send an elementary school age child to a school that is excellent, but also interweaves the religion into everything on a daily basis?
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If it weaves religion in Feb it’s not a great school religion us indoctrination literally the definition of.