The better question is, why do they have this “social emotional learning” crap AT ALL.

You do get some variation from parish to parish but the baseline curriculum is determined by the archdiocese.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, every day at our Arlington diocese school and some teachers spend more than an hour by adding movies to watch and discuss, payers to memorize.

We initially didn’t have issues with that much Catholic education and homework, until we realized time spent on Social Studies and Science subjects was significantly cut (a few times per week) and even minimal content barely taught. The classes even watched religious movies.

You can integrate religion into the curriculum while studying these subjects. Science more is what it is but there are many faithful Catholics who had an impact on science (Gregor Mendel, the French big bang guy). And Christianity had an continues to have an enormous influence on world history. So much so that by *not* studying Christianity deeply results in gaps in historical understanding.

Anyways can’t speak to your particular school but a moderate emphasis on religion can be easily integrated into a diverse curriculum.

Anonymous wrote:Our former K-8 was RE every day no matter what; even on Mass days.

Lifelong Catholic here but we found our former schools' teaching of Catholic doctrine in detrimental to a true, meaningful understanding of the faith as we had hoped. Despite ADW having one curriculum, we found A LOT of differences between schools in talking to families in other schools.

This lesson can be applied to anything in school. You need to look at the school evaluate what they are teaching and if it fits your needs. My kids attended a private, religious school years ago and we felt like this. It didn’t match up with what we felt and frankly, there were just some really bad staff and teachers. After years in public we are back at a different Christian school and it’s completely different. Yes, the Bible class is daily and the Bible is also integrated into other courses. But it’s done in open and welcoming way (IMO) that fits our family.

Definitely don’t go to a religious school if you don’t want your kids taking religion as a daily class.

Our former K-8 was RE every day no matter what; even on Mass days.

Lifelong Catholic here but we found our former schools' teaching of Catholic doctrine in detrimental to a true, meaningful understanding of the faith as we had hoped. Despite ADW having one curriculum, we found A LOT of differences between schools in talking to families in other schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh go fly a kite with this “does Catholic school do religion every day”. Admit it- you are too snobby to have your child attend public school yet too cheap to send them to a progressive private. Stop complaining that a Catholic school is “too Catholic”. You have other options, instead you feel entitled enough to complain about too much religion. Ridiculous!

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So many see Catholic school as a way to avoid public yet not pay extreme tuition rates. Fair enough but know what you are signing up for.

+2. Huge culture problem currently at our Catholic independent. All of the parents who were looking for an alternative to public but too cheap/not elite enough to get into a nicer private are up in arms about the school teaching Catholicism. My favorite is the evangelicals who chose it for geographic proximity who are constantly complaining about crucifixes, the Sacred Heart of Jesus statue, lack of Bible reading, etc. When their kids get to the Reformation some minds will be blown.

We pulled our DD out of a Catholic school, and moved to a private Christian school. It wasn't so much the daily religion classes, but the weekly tests that bordered on being too dry and academic. It really took the devotion out of her. Religion was treated as like any other academic subject and that's not what we wanted. It also didn't help that her religion teacher was disrespectful and acted contrary to what she taught (e.g. calling DD by another girl's name, then told DD to "live with it", or said "whatever" when DD tried to correct her).

Anonymous wrote:Oh go fly a kite with this “does Catholic school do religion every day”. Admit it- you are too snobby to have your child attend public school yet too cheap to send them to a progressive private. Stop complaining that a Catholic school is “too Catholic”. You have other options, instead you feel entitled enough to complain about too much religion. Ridiculous!

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So many see Catholic school as a way to avoid public yet not pay extreme tuition rates. Fair enough but know what you are signing up for.

Yes, there was Religion class every day in our K-8 and every day now at their Catholic HS. Homework, projects and exams in HS Religion class too!

Not every Catholic middle school has religion class daily. Not every Catholic middle school teaches religion the exact same way.

Oh go fly a kite with this “does Catholic school do religion every day”. Admit it- you are too snobby to have your child attend public school yet too cheap to send them to a progressive private. Stop complaining that a Catholic school is “too Catholic”. You have other options, instead you feel entitled enough to complain about too much religion. Ridiculous!

Religious themes are integrated in other subjects sometimes (writing projects, Spanish Art, Music). Prayers before classes, meals, after meals, morning prayer, end of day prayer, Adoration, Stations of the Cross, before CYO games.

Anonymous wrote:I just found out that our catholic middle school has religion class every day. Is that true for all of the K-8 catholic schools at the middle school level?

We appreciate religion classes but every day is a bit too much. Just wondering if this is the norm or there are options where this is not the case and they have more time for other subjects.

Through fifth grade, religion was only twice a week.

Sounds like you might be a candidate to move to your local public.

No religion class, for sure. So any time spent in Catholic schools on Religion would be immediately available for whatever.

Guess what, religion class is also a core requirement at Catholic high schools and colleges. It’s part of the faith-based education model.

Such an hilarious question. You realize the reason why Catholic schools are cheaper than secular privates schools is they are subsidized by the church.

My child attend a Christian k-8 school and had Bible class every single day. We aren't particularly religious but were at that school for the smaller class sizes and structured environment compared to our local public.