“I would rather send my child to a secular school than to a Catholic school where unsound doctrine is promoted.” Do you agree?

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what is available varies.

my son in law and siblings were home-schooled, but were able to participate in sports through their local public high school.

For that matter, in a rural area I where I taught college, the Catholic high school had its own teams for some sports, but for football (and possibly others), they played on the town high school team (which really needed. the extra bodies . . .)
Irishmom2 said:
Many parents join together and help each other. Some are better at math or history and they switch off.
It obviously works for people or they wouldn’t do it.
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several years ago, we actually toyed with the idea of hiring a teacher/tutor for high school students at our parish (as we opened a k-8), but actually enrolling them in a charter school. So the parents would chip in to cover the salary, and they would have curricular support, and meet in a Catholic environment. But there weren’t enough of us with kids that age and it didn’t happen.

(in one of those bizarre twists, the billionaire who was subsidizing the school lost its fortune, the school closed, and we’re looking at opening it as a high school if we get enough backing . . . )
 
RuthAnne said:
That is the approach we use in our home school. I recommend it.
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For children of all ages? Even in middle school, high school?

How do you do in sciences?
I remember myself doing many experiences under a microscope and test tubes in a laboratory…I guess that it is very limited at home?

Did your children candidated for the baccalaureate?
Were we lived students need to know how to make standardized trials such as dissertation and
a documents studies in order to pass the exams… So did you teach them how to do it or give them books for them to study it?

Do you provide your children with many school books and sevreal documentary resources on the several topics (at least for older children), as the parents cannot know everything?

How do you do for sports? Did they made professional interships?
 
I home schooled our Son from Pre K through graduation… Our Church at the time held him a graduation, he had cap and gown,tassel, had a class ring made with our Home school name on it , our color we chose (Cobalt Blue) and mascot eagle on one side, Cross on other 🙂
 
Anicette said:
For children of all ages? Even in middle school, high school?
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Especially in middle and high school.

That’s the beauty of unschooling. If they don’t like science, they don’t study it. If they like it, I don’t need to do it. They explore it on their own and at their own pace. I’m just there to give support.

Standardized testing is the stupidest thing on the planet.

Two of my kids are now in college. Both were on the dean’s list last semester.
 
Anicette said:
I remember myself doing many experiences under a microscope and test tubes in a laboratory…I guess that it is very limited at home?
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Microscopes and what not are not that important in the first place.
 
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It is not unavoidable, by interesting that the student make his own experience in order to make his own conclusions and understand more deeply.
We certainely are much more motivated by an experience than to learn something dry in a book and remember more easily.
 
Anicette said:
by interesting that the student make his own experience in order to make his own conclusions and understand more deeply.
We certainely are much more motivated by an experience than to learn something dry in a book and remember more easily.
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I’m not sure that type of information is worth it if they don’t have an inclination towards it.
 
surely not every people are interested in learning sciences.

For thoses who are the experiences are important.

Strange that some homeschoolers may go to study science in college without having made experiences…
 
Anicette said:
For thoses who are the experiences are important.

Strange that some homeschoolers may go to study science in college without having made experiences…
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If they are then they it is suitable, but for most people it really isn’t.
 
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Sure. But I don’t understand your point. Students who are studying sciences in high school are numerous. It is not a little minority. And there are still lot of students in science after high school is finished.
 
I would home school before considering government schools (as someone who attended one). If my future husband and I can afford Catholic school, I would consider this only after meeting with staff to check the quality of education.

According to your hypothetical situation, not including home schooling, I think a subpar Catholic school would still be better than a secular one… do you know what they are teaching there? At least even the worst Catholic school would affirm the existence of God and our salvation. The church and family can provide for whatever is lacking.

To send a child to a secular school in the 21st century would be to consent to their indoctrination by an oppositional worldview that contradicts our faith. I know because that’s how I grew up. It wasn’t until I went to college and studied philosophy, searching beyond the modern educational bubble, that I became Catholic by the grace of God.
 
@(name removed by moderator) How would you rate Teurlings in “Catholicness”? I’ve seen some kids from there, and two didn’t seem to care about their faith, but they were Catholic (possibly CINO).
 
Depend on where we are living, and the rules, but homeschooling is not an absolute choice, and rarely (if never?) respected as sending a child to a school.

By homeschooling, we can consent to be annoyed by administrative, social and medical services. We can even be persecuted. The worst cases are in Germany, Norway, Sweeden for eg.

Sometimes, or often we have no choice than to school or school again our children.

Homeschooling is very an American niche. Be grateful for your chance.
 
My children are grown up. The one who went to a benedictine school where very liberal teachings were promoted has lost his faith. The one who went to a secular school where it was deeply uncool to be religious is now a devout young Catholic woman.
 
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Beryllos said:
I am reminded of the saying written long ago by Charles Babbage: “The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.”
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Computer programmer here! Great quote, and I haven’t heard it before. Thanks for chipping in with it. I see your point that a Catholic school will somehow impart the “facts” to children about Christ and Catholicism, even if the school itself misapplies them (with a wishy-washy version of Catholicism).

That’s one to store away. I know of him of course as a scientist/engineer, but wasn’t aware of him as a thinker.

If you get the facts right you will inevitably reach the truth, even if you make some wrong turns along the way.
 
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