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Gordon_Sims
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I plan on doing everything possible to keep my kids out of public schools. We’ve had one go all the way through Catholic schools so far (K-12) and two other enrolled. My biggest issue isn’t with the kids having to deal with other students, but with the teachers they’d encounter. I have lots of family and friends who are teachers and I know that way too many of them are actively anti-religion in general while on the job, and anti-Catholic in particular (and most of them are ostensibly Catholic). One of them, a “Catholic” teacher at a Catholic school, makes directing the kids away from the Faith just as much a priority as teaching. The ones at public schools are easily as bad and have told me numerous times that they actively discriminate against the kids whose parents are openly religious. They’re very careful to make sure they don’t do anything they could be called out on later (most of it comes down to judgement calls, i.e. not recommending the previously-homeschooled kid for entry into the advanced placement classes because his parents taught him intelligent design, etc.), but when they get together and talk about it, you can hear the delight in their voices as they talk about how they put the parents or students “in their place.” I’m not saying that all public school teachers are bad, or that Catholic schools are all good, but I’d rather take my chances with a Catholic school where I know my kids are getting at least some catechism, the sacraments and regular Mass.
