Catholic Answers census: Your Catholic education background

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Gearoidin said:
When is grade school? Primary/Elementary school? Including secondary school?
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Well, around here in Wisconsin, “grade school” is elementary school - grade 1 through 8. That’s what I meant for the poll.
 
cradle catholic; catechism K-12 and 1 year of Catholic parochial school.
 
Cradle Catholic
Catholic Grade School ( K through 8)
Catholic High School (9 through 12)
Catholic College (B.S. Degree Biology)
Non-Catholic Grad School - 20 years after graduating college (recieved Master of Public Health)

Applying for Permanent Diaconnate - still learning my faith 🙂
 
A cradle Catholic educated at a Catholic elementary school and Catholic high school. Then attended a private non-Catholic university and a non-Catholic graduate school. Met my cradle-Catholic husband at the non-Catholic university!
 
Stylteralmaldo said:
Well, around here in Wisconsin, “grade school” is elementary school - grade 1 through 8. That’s what I meant for the poll.
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Thank you. In that case, I attended a Catholic primary school (age 4-12), Catholic secondary school till the age of 16 and then 2 years at a Society of Friends (Quaker) boarding school.
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I’m a Cradle Catholic and I went to a Catholic grade school, public high school and a Catholic college.
 
Convert - TST 2008! Public school education (K-12). Now, at 36, a Catholic University student. 🙂
 
I went to a Catholic grade school and a Catholic high school. I was one of the first lay CCD teachers in my home parish where I taught for 5 years. Later after I was married and had kids of my own I taught for another 20 years.
 
cradle catholic, public schools elementary-college.
I was able to enroll my son in catholic school though 🙂
 
I am a cradle Catholic and the product of an inter-faith marriage (Episcopal and Catholic). I went to public schools. My father (the Catholic) was very diligent about making sure we got all our Catecism classes, First Holy Communion, our Confirmation classes. I don’t remember going to Catecism after Confirmation, but that may be because of the classes that were given at that time. I am pretty sure my dad enrolled me after Confirmation, but that was probably when I skipped out on them. The reason I did that was the direction the classes were taking. It was the late sixties/early seventies when I was beginning high school and the classes started getting to be about “psyching us out”, in my opinion. I later found out it was my sister’s opinion too, who is one year younger. The classes may have had a nun or priest involved, but they were mainly a panel of adults (mostly parents I think) on one side of the table and teens on the other side with workbooks all about growing up or something. I was always shy and the whole thing gave me the creeps. My sister has told me she just told me dad she didn’t want to go and then we stopped going!
 
I’m a practicing cradle Catholic who’s gone to a Catholic school only for kindergarten. My parents couldn’'t afford anything else.😦

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Cradle Catholic, practicing, Public School K-12, Now at a Catholic college
 
Cradle catholic (baptized when 4 weeks old)
Catholic school, K-8
Public high school
Three years undergrad at large state university
Last two years of undergrad and completed bachelor of science degree at Catholic university (learned vertebrate anatomy from a 75-year-old priest 👍 )
 
I attended a secular private grade school then a public high school.

I converted in 2003 as the age of 42 from atheism, confirmed in 2005.
 
I have my STB in Theology from the Angelicum in Rome. Apart from 4 years of Catholic grade school (4th to 8th grade), all of my other schooling until the Angelicum was all public school.
 
Some Catholic Grade School
4 Years Catholic High School
Fallen away Catholic recently 3 years returned
 
Public school k-12 (and wouldn’t have wished for anything different 🙂 )
Catholic college for undergrad
Attending a Catholic law school in the fall

I’m very happy with my education choices!
 
All public school education, secular university, cradle practising Catholic.
 
Public gradeschool, but all but a few of the kids were Catholic and attended Mass every day before school, so it was kind of unusual. We were taken out of public school classes to be taught out of the Baltimore Catechism during school hours by moms in the parish, and we were taught once a month by the pastor, too.

Catholic high school, public college. In retrospect, I wish I would have gone to the Catholic university; I would have loved to have had college-level theology coursework.
 
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