scenario: what would you choose

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You are a non catholic christian, and possibly not sure if catholics are christian. Consider the following hypothetical:

scenario:
you live in a small town. There is the public school, which is liberal and progressive, teaching pro-abortion, and pro-homosexual, ideology, along with other liberal ideals, and is antithetical to any display of christian ideas, from any denominational or non-denominational, general christian background of any kind.
You consider homeschooling, but cannot make that happen ( work schedule or whatever )
The only other school in driving distance is a catholic school. If you are a non-catholic christian, you have two choices:
Send your children to public school, as above
or
send your children to the catholic school
which do you choose?
 
Many many non-Catholics attend Catholic Schools!

If you like the reputation of the school and have spoken to other parents, by all means put your faith in the school delivering what they promise.

Catholicism is very low on the contagion scale.
You must be born with it or get married to a carrier, to have a high chance of catching it (joke)
 
In that scenario, homeschooling isn’t possible, and the only available private school is the Catholic school. Alrighty, I can work with those parameters, but I need a little more information: How are the academics at the two schools? If they’re equal, that’s probably a much better than average public school despite its progressivism, or else the Catholic school is worse than average.
 
The situation appears to force choice of “less evil” case.

The problem with cases such as this is that: being a Catholic school does not necessarily mean evil. Finally, not all learning is learned from school. The most significant ones are taught at home – by parents, preferably.
 
traillius said:
You are a non catholic christian, and possibly not sure if catholics are christian. Consider the following hypothetical:

scenario:
you live in a small town. There is the public school, which is liberal and progressive, teaching pro-abortion, and pro-homosexual, ideology, along with other liberal ideals, and is antithetical to any display of christian ideas, from any denominational or non-denominational, general christian background of any kind.
You consider homeschooling, but cannot make that happen ( work schedule or whatever )
The only other school in driving distance is a catholic school. If you are a non-catholic christian, you have two choices:
Send your children to public school, as above
or
send your children to the catholic school
which do you choose?
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Say now I was a non-Catholic Christian, I would send my children to a good non-Catholic Christian Boarding School or alternatively if all else fails to a Catholic School within driving distance from home. Liberal Schools = Liberal Morals – a definite no, no for my kids.
 
I was just investigating. Some noncatholics would rather immerse their children in the sliminess that is som public school education, than have them attend what they call ’ satan’s church’
 
traillius said:
You are a non catholic christian, and possibly not sure if catholics are christian. Consider the following hypothetical:

scenario:
you live in a small town. There is the public school, which is liberal and progressive, teaching pro-abortion, and pro-homosexual, ideology, along with other liberal ideals, and is antithetical to any display of christian ideas, from any denominational or non-denominational, general christian background of any kind.
You consider homeschooling, but cannot make that happen ( work schedule or whatever )
The only other school in driving distance is a catholic school. If you are a non-catholic christian, you have two choices:
Send your children to public school, as above
or
send your children to the catholic school
which do you choose?
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How about the opposite where a catholic family had to choose between the public school mentioned above and a non catholic christian school. Would a catholic send their child to the non catholic christian school? I can honestly say I would be very hesitant to send my child to a non catholic christian school. I would have to do extensive investigation.
 
ignatius777 said:
How about the opposite where a catholic family had to choose between the public school mentioned above and a non catholic christian school. Would a catholic send their child to the non catholic christian school? I can honestly say I would be very hesitant to send my child to a non catholic christian school. I would have to do extensive investigation.
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Or a Muslim school as many Muslim, in name, upper class would send their child to a Christian run or missionary’s school.

I guess the key verse in the hypothetical is “if you don’t believe Catholics are Christian”. Exactly how many of them hang out on this website for any period of time and how likely are they to rise to the bait?
 
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Or a Muslim school as many Muslim, in name, upper class would send their child to a Christian run or missionary’s school.

I guess the key verse in the hypothetical is “if you don’t believe Catholics are Christian”. Exactly how many of them hang out on this website for any period of time and how likely are they to rise to the bait?
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What do you believe?
 
When I was a kid my mom looked into sending me to a Catholic school. They wouldn’t take me due to my non-Catholicness.
 
For me even then it would depend on the school. Some Catholic schools are better than other Catholic schools.

Just because it carries the “Catholic” title, doesnt make it a quality education.
I have several friends who came up thru the Catholic educational system. Not all Catholic schools are of equal value in quality
 
My children’s Catholic HS is 30% non-Catholic. Protestant parents choose to send their children there because of it’s academics and sports programs. Unlike the larger public schools, most everyone can participate on the sports teams at our small school.

I wouldn’t fault a non-Catholic for choosing a public school over a Catholic one though if they felt the religious teachings were unacceptable. I wouldn’t send my children to a Baptist or a Church of Christ school regardless of how awful the public school was. Given those choices, I would find a way to homeschool, even if it were only on the weekends. Where there’s a will… there’s a way.
 
traillius said:
You are a non catholic christian, and possibly not sure if catholics are christian. Consider the following hypothetical:

scenario:
you live in a small town. There is the public school, which is liberal and progressive, teaching pro-abortion, and pro-homosexual, ideology, along with other liberal ideals, and is antithetical to any display of christian ideas, from any denominational or non-denominational, general christian background of any kind.
You consider homeschooling, but cannot make that happen ( work schedule or whatever )
The only other school in driving distance is a catholic school. If you are a non-catholic christian, you have two choices:
Send your children to public school, as above
or
send your children to the catholic school
which do you choose?
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First of all , let me assure you that Catholics are first and foremost Christian. The idea that we are not comes from anti Catholic bigotry.
The Catholic school would give the child an excellant education. There are many non Catholics who attend and there is is not any form of discrimination. Catholic are taught that all faiths contain some amount of truth to God’s salvation and to work to find how we can put aside differnces and work toward to common good of humanity.
 
Ok, here’s my answer:

Other things being equal (academics, etc.), I would choose the Catholic school. There are things about Catholic culture that I’d rather my kids not be taught, but my concerns about that pale in comparison to the whole progressivism package. However, I have no worries about Catholics not being Christian.

Someone mentioned a Muslim school. That I would never do, unless I was certain they practiced a very moderate, peaceful Islam that fully accepts modernity, religious tolerance, freedom of speech and gender equality. To be sure, Muslims like that do exist, but they seem to be a small minority, and the chance of there being enough of them in my town to open a school are remote.
 
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