Public School vs. Catholic School

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That’s definitely not it. Parents are morally responsible for the upbringing of their children. There are a ton of issues that make a school inappropriate, even if it exists. Catholic schools, for better or worse, carry at least the perception of the authority of the Church. Students and parents go there, expecting to be taught authentic Church teaching. So if students go there and witness false teaching, bullying, racism, sexual sin, classism, etc they leave with the impression that those behaviors and attitudes are approved of in the Catholic Church. How many times have we heard someone say, “I went to Catholic school for 13 years and we were taught that (insert blatant misteaching of the Catholic faith)”? In matters of moral authority, a lousy Catholic school is not better than no Catholic school. Also, I would hope that we are all past the point where we expect parents to quietly and obediently send kids to a school that is known to have abuse issues or bullying issues. And then there are children with special needs that aren’t going to have them met in a small private school with less specialized resources. There mere presence of a school that calls itself Catholic, doesn’t mean that parents must send their child to that school on penalty of sin.
 
I’ve just never heard anyone on the other side of this issue actually make direct reference to the Canons/etc. and try to argue against/refute them in favor of their own opinions. (Perhaps this is because this can’t be done.) But, if you think it can, I would be very curious to hear how you manage to do it and get around these authoritative documents. (I’m specifically addressing those for whom it is possible to send kids to Catholic school but who don’t anyway for whatever reason(s)…or those who would take, hypothetically, such a position.)
 
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MysticMissMisty said:
. (I’m specifically addressing those for whom it is possible to send kids to Catholic school but who don’t anyway for whatever reason(s)…or those who would take, hypothetically, such a position.)
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Im not trying to refute the documents.

You are not understanding the documents.

Unable does not equate to “cannot afford” and it also does not equate to “impossible” vs “possible”.

A parent may be unable to send their child to
Catholic school for financial reasons, but may also be unable to send them for other reasons.
 
Also, 1ke, could you please follow up on responses that would seem to beg for follow-ups? 😏 “No, it’s not the bottom line,” would seem to beg for a, “Well, then, what is?” or at least a, “Why?”…
 
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Two of my younger grandkids are currently enrolled in Catholic school. Outside of the immersion in the faith,the desire to avoid the disordered progressive ideology bent foisted upon public schools is equally if not greater reason for their attending parochial schoo…
 
Jeanne_S said:
disordered progressive ideology bent foisted upon public schools is equally if not greater reason for their attending parochial schoo…
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We must live in a very different area than you. I don’t see this happening in public schools here.
 
It’s harder to make it available now than in the past. With the lack of religious as teachers, the money to pay lay teachers has to come from the tuition.

Many have already posted, it depends on the school. I think it’s worse for kids to get a bad Catholic education at a Catholic school than to send them to public school and teach them the faith at home along with a decent parish program.
 
I am a HUGE advocate for Catholic school. As a Catholic parent, one’s purpose in life is to bring up one’s children in the faith. What is more important than that?
 
So kids, whose parents send them to public school, can’t be raised Catholic? That’s what it sounds like you’re saying.
 
I don’t think anyone is arguing that point. The issue is when a parent feels that the Catholic schools available to them are geared toward that goal.
 
So, how far would this “inability” go? Could parents legitimately argue, for example, that the education in a public school is superior enough to that in nearby Catholic schools to make them “unable” to send their kids there (at least, to their conscience and in their mind’s eye), so long as their kids get sufficient Catholic education elsewhere?
 
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I’m also wondering if the kinds of “supplementary” programs that exist today did when this law was first promulgated. If not, I wonder whether it has outlived its usefulness if the spirit of it was to grow well-formed Catholic kids.
 
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Yes. This is because people elect politicians that demand there be a commoditization of education. “My tax dollars are being taken from me to support government schools, and I demand accountability, by gar! Run schools like a business!” 😁
 
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“The Council also reminds Catholic parents of the duty of entrusting their children to Catholic schools wherever and whenever it is possible and of supporting these schools to the best of their ability and of cooperating with them for the education of their children.”
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Wow. It’s possible to send my kids to Catholic school. Is my choice to homeschool them a sin?
 
My child could not have gone to Catholic school…waiting list. To attend the high school required a forty minute drive one way. Zero accomodation fot either gifted or special needs children. Tuition, even with a scholarship, was impossible.

The requirement to raise children Catholic and provide a Catholic education can be met with faith formation classes or Catechism, CCD…whatever you call it in your parish. We are not required to give our children a Catholic education in math and science, shop and sewing.
 
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“The Council also reminds Catholic parents of the duty of entrusting their children to Catholic schools wherever and whenever it is possible and of supporting these schools to the best of their ability and of cooperating with them for the education of their children.”
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No. I make the same choice as yourself, and educate my child in the faith.

At the time of the Council, homeschooling was virtually unknown apart yvery few proviledge families.
Even now it remains something very “american” and not lived a lot in Europe and the rest of the world.

On the contrary a strong and extended system of Catholic school exists in Catholic european countries, such as Italy (were the majority of councilmen were from) and the battle between Catholic and public school, as well as a difference of ideology now remains.
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Yes, they did exis the last time the law was propogated, 1983 iirc was the date of the Canon law.
And we should not be deciding for ourselves which church laws are obsolete.
 
We kids attended public school during the week, and Catechism classes on Saturdays. We got both kinds of education. I think we turned out just fine. We also had conscientious parenting at home, albeit maybe a bit too restrictive at times.
 
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