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AViolet
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I attended a non-denominational college prep High School after Catholic elementary school in a large city.
My first day there, a teacher asked all the Catholics to raise their hands and spent the rest of the class time telling how the Catholic church supposedly ruined her life. I graduated from there and despite liking students and being an introvert, I always felt like an outsider. It was very hard, inspite of never being directly confronted about my Faith. At 13 from a strong Catholic elementary school, I was not fooled and feeling ostracized drove me deeper into my Faith. That said, my sibling went protestant. The school also invited the group called Young Life onto the campus. This group never approached me, but I later learned it is a strongly anti-Catholic group.
That said. If you can give your children a strong Catholic basis at home, ideally with other kids their age as well and teach them to defend common questions; they’ll probably be fine, strong Catholics. For elementary school I’d recommend volunteering as much as possible so you can get to know the teachers and kids and know what’s going on. I believe it can be a good thing for you; you just have to be vigilantly aware.
My first day there, a teacher asked all the Catholics to raise their hands and spent the rest of the class time telling how the Catholic church supposedly ruined her life. I graduated from there and despite liking students and being an introvert, I always felt like an outsider. It was very hard, inspite of never being directly confronted about my Faith. At 13 from a strong Catholic elementary school, I was not fooled and feeling ostracized drove me deeper into my Faith. That said, my sibling went protestant. The school also invited the group called Young Life onto the campus. This group never approached me, but I later learned it is a strongly anti-Catholic group.
That said. If you can give your children a strong Catholic basis at home, ideally with other kids their age as well and teach them to defend common questions; they’ll probably be fine, strong Catholics. For elementary school I’d recommend volunteering as much as possible so you can get to know the teachers and kids and know what’s going on. I believe it can be a good thing for you; you just have to be vigilantly aware.