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TC3033
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No, they’re not. But if they were I wouldn’t see being Catholic as a “trump” qualification either.
Like I said, could just be me.
Like I said, could just be me.
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CollegeCatholic24
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Values are also put into practice at the school. They also meet more people that believe in the same values and face less temptation. At public school, you get kids with all sorts of values.
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babochka
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The same can be said for Catholic schools, especially if parents are sending their kids there for the superior academic education, rather than a Catholic education.
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TC3033
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OK…the same thing is going to happen when they get into the “real world” too. I don’t think everyone at the business I work at have the same values as mine.
Yep, had a good friend where we played club sports together. He (and others) always said the Catholic school has the same issues as the public HS. Due to the lesser enrollment, it was less kids so it was easier to “cover up” and just send the kids out to another school.
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JanetF
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Some would say that this is a good thing to have children encounter while they are still living at home, so that you can discuss your values and why you have them.
Kids are going to eventually go out into the real world and will need to be able to get along with all sorts of different types of people. Learning how to do that while living at home is a positive thing IMHO.
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LisaB
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For many teaching positions in Catholic schools, being a practicing Catholic is the first qualification listed in the job ad. So not meeting that would make one not qualified for the position in the first place.
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CatholicSooner
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My PreK 4 daughter has a teacher at a Catholic school that is not Catholic. SHe is a wonderful lady. But she alway is ignorant of the evil of yoga. And she is introducing this evil to small kids.
I see a conflict of a non catholic teacher trying to teach kids Catholic faith while they themselves are not Catholic. At some points the kids are going to realize that what the teacher is teaching us must not be important because she doesn’t really believe it. She isn’t Catholic. She doesn’t go to mass,etc.
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TC3033
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Interesting, didn’t know it was many. My wife was a finalist for a few teaching jobs at Catholic HS’s when she was looking. None (that I saw) had “must be Catholic” in the description.
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CatholicSooner
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Most probably don’t because there isn’t enough teachers to go around that are Catholic.LisaB:
Interesting, didn’t know it was many. My wife was a finalist for a few teaching jobs at Catholic HS’s when she was looking. None (that I saw) had “must be Catholic” in the description.
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TC3033
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I’m interested in this. Last school year the priest was going off about the evils of the public school and them teaching yoga. Turns out…it wasn’t “yoga”.
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CatholicSooner
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What are you interested in?CatholicSooner:
I’m interested in this. Last school year the priest was going off about the evils of the public school and them teaching yoga. Turns out…it wasn’t “yoga”.
Yoga is a non Christian spirituality that implies all are divine and enters into a dark meditation.
There are a lot of threads on yoga on the site though so this thread probably shouldn’t go that direction
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CollegeCatholic24
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By the time one enters the real world, the will be more mature and be more likely to remain true to their Catholic values. Back to the main point, if possible, I would absolutely send my kids to catholic school because of so many different reasons.
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babochka
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I didn’t like it in that I agreed that you should do that! I am so sorry if that is the impression that I gave. The “like” had more to do with a sympathetic understanding of how it can feel to have your every idea attacked. It’s hard to express that was just a single click and the “like” was more of an acknowledgement.
It is a fact that there are reminders to the Children in the form of sacramentals.
A crucifix in each class and various saint statues in the halls. Never will see this in public school. These sacramentals remind kids of how they conduct themselves to give Glory to God and to His Immaculate Mother
My dd says a decade of the rosary before a test as Mary Immaculate comforts her.
A friend who is devout catholic who had a child in public school had a teacher tell her to put those beads away and if she took them out again she would go to the prncipal
My dd is vp student council is national honor society .She volunteers at church choir
Visits home bound and is 13 was taught the virtue of this at school
She has been taight about same sex relationships and not confused by conflicting opinions. She is right to life.
She read 4 book about saints before choosing a confirmation name
she knows the value of humility and kindness
And a s matter fact it makes me uncomfortable speaking of this
God Bless all who read this. This is the personal value i place on Catholic education
A crucifix in each class and various saint statues in the halls. Never will see this in public school. These sacramentals remind kids of how they conduct themselves to give Glory to God and to His Immaculate Mother
My dd says a decade of the rosary before a test as Mary Immaculate comforts her.
A friend who is devout catholic who had a child in public school had a teacher tell her to put those beads away and if she took them out again she would go to the prncipal
My dd is vp student council is national honor society .She volunteers at church choir
Visits home bound and is 13 was taught the virtue of this at school
She has been taight about same sex relationships and not confused by conflicting opinions. She is right to life.
She read 4 book about saints before choosing a confirmation name
she knows the value of humility and kindness
And a s matter fact it makes me uncomfortable speaking of this
God Bless all who read this. This is the personal value i place on Catholic education
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Catholic361
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Same with me I went through school all k-12 and I couldn’t stand it but due to my family’s situation (father was in the military) so we moved every two to three years the entire time I was in school and of course family wasn’t catholic (still isn’t) I’m the only one and we had special needs and I guess the public schools was the only option that my family had at the time and because of two of their children having IEP’s all the way through school ,I am not a parent.
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TC3033
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Fair, but I guess for us this isn’t a deal breaker as we believe in the children learn faith in the domestic church, not at school.
Good, so it sounds like you found something that works for her.
She couldn’t have done this if she went to public school?
What it comes down to is: You put down kids who attend public school, basically saying that they’re all poorly Catechized and called it FACT. That’s not a FACT. The FACT is, that’s not a school issue, that’s a parenting and domestic church issue. It wouldn’t matter what school (public or private) the child attends.
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JoeShlabotnik
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I cannot put my finger on how to evaluate performance. What I do know is that those who teach and the students know who the good teachers are. I am not talking about who the popular teachers are. I am talking about who are the top teachers.
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heidi_storage
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Yes. It’s you. You don’t see Catholicism as a vitally important set of values. The Catholics here do, and if they didn’t they wouldn’t be sending their kids to Catholic schools unless their other options were bad.
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heidi_storage
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My two cents: Many of the kids who went to Catholic high schools and then attended my (Jesuit) university tended to go crazy and drink and become agnostic or Buddhist their freshman year. Many were also surprisingly ignorant about the basics of Catholicism. I don’t know the quality of the schools they attended, but they were expensive. (I lived in an expensive area and attended a private school.)
This is not to say that Catholic schools are valueless–only that they’re no guarantee a child will grow up to know and embrace Catholicism.
But then again, neither is any other form of schooling a guarantee, either.
This is not to say that Catholic schools are valueless–only that they’re no guarantee a child will grow up to know and embrace Catholicism.
But then again, neither is any other form of schooling a guarantee, either.
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