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Old 04-12-2009, 09:45 PM
 
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I am looking for a school (kindergarten initially for my son). There are many catholic schools. We have just moved to the US and we are Anglican / Episcopal, but not to the extent that we are looking for a religious school.

To what extent are the Catholic schools religious? i.e. how much of the teaching is religious? Do they accept children of all faiths? Are the children expected to attend Mass at a certain church?

In my day we have a service 4 out of 5 days in the morning and about 40mins of religious teaching. Should I expect more from the Catholic schools?
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Old 04-13-2009, 05:44 PM
 
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I received a Catholic education from fourth grade all the way through high school. I attended St. Edmond's Academy then Salesianum H.S. Both are all boys schools and non-parochial. Ursuline and Padua are the female equivalents. All are located in New Castle County.
Being Catholic schools, religion classes are part of the curriculum. The classes were approximately 45 minutes/day. Both schools do accept students of other faiths and denominations. I'm not sure if the same holds true for parochial schools, but I believe it does.
For the non-parochial schools, mass was only held on the holy days of obligation. We did not attend daily services. The days when services were held, altered that current day's schedule. The classes would then go down to mass as a group, including the non-catholic students, because mass was a school wide event.
Comparatively speaking, it looks like you had more religious education than I did. I think the same holds true today. To answer your last question, I think you can expect less religious teaching; more so with non-parochial schools (I have no real experience with parochial schools). With the non-parochial schools being unassociated with a particular parish, you are not required to attend a certain church.
In my experience, I think more focus is placed on traditional education with religious education added as a moral guideline. I don't think you have to worry about your child becoming indoctrinated in the Catholic faith if that is your concern.

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Old 12-05-2012, 07:37 PM
 
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There is nothing wrong with the public education system that a nun with a yardstick can't fix.
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Old 12-06-2012, 10:17 AM
 
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I went to Catholic Parochial school 1st through 12th grade.

Catholic schools accept students of all faiths, tho keepi in mind if the student is not Catholic, there is usually an additonal fee added on to the tuition., , . ./ I'd venture to say that about 80% of the students at my Catholic school were indeed Catholic, the other 20% being some other denomination of Christian or no religion at all really. . .. We even had some muslim students in my school. . It was kinda cool.

We had morning prayer everyday...usually done with the morning announcements, just a quick 20 second prayer really and the pledge. . .

I had a "religion class" everyday, though to be honest, it wasn't like some cultish thing where they indoctrinated the children, etc... it was pretty informal and rather boring and easy to be honest. Always an easy A in that class. Tho, they will teach the students about Catholic traditions, teachings, etc, lets be clear on that. .

Mass happened like 3 or 4 times a year. Usually a school wide thing. I liked it cuz it got me out of classes and kinda switched up the day. Usually before major breaks. . Like there was always a mass at the end of the school year....a mass before Christmas break, Spring break....beginning of the school year, that was it really.
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