Sending son to Catholic school for the wrong reasons

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HouseArrest said:
You’re not really sending him to the Catholic school for the wrong reasons. (It sounds as if) It’s not as though you don’t like the school, think the public school has a better program, checked it out and are only going to the Catholic school for this one reason. Obviously you are happy with it, right? So there are actually many reasons, this being one of them, the one that was the “tie breaker”.

You may have actually been sending him to the public school for the wrong reason, which was the tuition cost. You might struggle but the Lord will help you. Believe me. We have 5 children in Catholic school, I’m having our 7th in 2007, and have been a SAHM for 10 years. Somehow, we keep affording it. I’m not pretending to know your situation with finances, but I just wanted to let you know I’m not sitting here with a million dollar house spouting out how affordable things are, I feel your pain and know it is worth it!

Good Luck and I hope he has a great year!
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The OP has stated that the tuition cost is the reason. Is the church going to chip in when they turn his lights out, or gets evicted? The OP is being real. I have to ask, with 5 kids in Catholic school, are you paying FULL tuition? If so, your husband must be CEO of something in order to afford 7 kids, with 5 in Catholic school no less. Bottom line, is about the bottom line. I wouldn’t live anywhere near ground zero, but that’s just me. He has already stated the suburbs are really expensive as is everything else in the northeast. I grew up in Taxachusetts, my parents couldn’t afford Catholic school on a carpenters salary. My mom was stay-at-home. My heart goes out to you OP, you have a dilemma on your hands. If you could get out of NYC all together with a good job offer…move. In the southeast, the smaller cities the tuition is more affordable.
 
Saint_Michael said:
Earlier in the year my wife and I decided to send my son to public school because we are tight with money. However upon taking my son to orientation we noticed he was only one of five white students, and the majority of the students were Muslim (we live in Brooklyn in an area that has a high concentration of Muslims).

Well anyway I feel pretty badly about making the decision based on race (moreso on religion), but kids I think will ostracize my son for 1. being white 2. being a non-Muslim. The Catholic school is 89% white and the rest hispanic and Asian which I feel is a better environment for my son, since there will be kids he can relate to, and won’t “gang up” on him for being different.

Bottom line I feel like a racist, but I also realize that I made the right decision for my son as backward as the reasoning seems. Has anyone out there struggled with a similar situation, or decided on Catholic school for all the wrong reasons?

I don’t consider myself a bigot, and I get along with other people just fine and in no way think I or my son are better than anyone, but I also live in the real world, and in Brooklyn especially amongst Muslims people get very “clannish” for lack of a better word.
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Doesn’t sound racist to me. I don’t see Muslim families jumping a t the chance to send their children to schools where the ratio of Orthodox Jews to Muslims would be 5:1.

Sounds to me like you are sending your kid to Catholic school because you feel he might flourish in an environment where he can have, at the very least, the common ground of similar faith.

Doesn’t sound bigoted to me.
 
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