Vaccines Required for Catholic School

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I really would like my kids to attend Catholic school to balance the poor Catholic influence of their birth mother who destroyed our once holy family.

However, the Archdiocese requires vaccination and my high conflict ex wife vehemently opposes to all vaccines. We split 50-50 custody.

Options include a high drama court battle and prayers, which have not been obviously very effective for me. What suggestions do you have?

Please, do not advise on pros and cons of vaccines, but limit discussion to options for getting my kids into a faith filled environment. Thank you.
 
Have you talked to someone at the local school? I think it would be worth a try, you probably are not the only one who has had such a problem.
 
I’m confused. How can you judge that Catholic schools are not Catholic?
 
Not yet. I personally know parents whose children were expelled because they refused to be vaccinated.
 
I am not sure what you think anyone will be able to advise you to do except court battling with your ex-wife. Perhaps you can send them to public school but teach them about Catholicism at your own home.
 
I just think it couldn’t hurt to visit the school, and bring this up at some point. Maybe not emphasize it as the main point. One parent is willing, so maybe they would be able to “work with you” in some way. I think it’s a different situation if both parents are vehemently anti-vax and there’s no way a kid is going to be vaccinated.
An alternative might be a call to your lawyer, to see how difficult this would be to work this out.

Doesn’t every school require vaccinations?
 
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Well, the option of going to public school
would be a faithless environment for them and missing 1/2 of religious education because I only have 50-50 custody.
 
So what is the current situation? Would attempting to work with your priest during that 50% of the time be more than what they currently are receiving if you cannot get them vaccinated?
 
How you live your life is the best religious education your kids will have. Not by drilling Catholic memorization, but, in seeing how you are loving and kind to everyone (even your ex wife). Take them along on a Habitat for Humanity build, have them make plarn into mats for the homeless, set up a “free cold water” stand in the summer.

Pray with them, teach them who Jesus is, read them books like Sheed’s “To Know Christ Jesus” and read them Narina and Tolkein’s work. Weave the Faith into the fabric of your life.

Don’t be ashamed to make the sign of the cross and pray in public, don’t rant about people with whom you disagree.

A loving, Christ centered home half of the time is an amazing thing.
 
Talk to people about their experiences with the school. Look up reviews online. Talk to current students and see what they are like and ask them about teachers, if there are any problematic ones. Ask to look at the religious education curriculum.

Lots of us here have been through Catholic schools where the faith was watered down and openly contradicted at times. Because so many Catholic schools are having issues getting enough kids enrolled to stay open, they are tempted to water-down the Catholic aspect to attract non-Catholics with deep pockets looking for just another private school.
 
Also, many parishes offer religious education programs during the school year up until confirmation age for those who can’t attend Catholic school for whatever reason. I don’t know how old your kids are, but I’m just throwing it out there.
 
Does your parish have a good CCD program that they could attend? If not, perhaps you could pay one of the school’s teachers to tutor the kids when they are with you.
 
This is somewhat of a strange post. In more than a decade of teaching, I’ve had to sit through countless crazy-ex rants and while I mostly just tune them out, I can’t recall ever hearing of a situation where one parent unilaterally made medical decisions, while the other chose the children’s school. I have a couple of thoughts. Where does your exwife want the children to attend school? I’m curious how she intends to have her children enrolled in any school without being able to claim a religious waiver. Is she planning on homeschooling them or something? Is it every vaccine she is against, or just the ones associated with cell lines from aborted babies? Maybe the school would be lenient if it was just the one or two that are morally objectionable. Frankly, if I were in the situation where my ex was preventing my children from getting their vaccines, I would absolutely seek help from the court, regardless of where they were going to school. In this case, I would ask for a judgement on both issues.
 
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the Archdiocese requires vaccination
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Honestly, I thought all schools, including Public, required vaccinations these days?

There are some States that still permit exemptions (faith or medical). You could always petition the archdiocese of your area to see if they would accept an exemption in your situation, if Public schools in your area allows an exemption, perhaps the archdiocese would, too?

You could also look into Homeschooling using Catholic curriculum. I think most States allow non-vaxxers to Homeschool?
 
In my state, there is a religious exemption which my ex uses. She says she is Catholic and that vaccines are against the basic tenets of the Church. It’s a lie that she commits on the affidavit every year.
 
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In my state, there is a religious exemption which my ex uses. She says she is Catholic and that vaccines are against the basic tenets of the Church. It’s a lie that she commits on the affidavit every year.
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Oh dear. It seems like you may want to consider the high drama of going to court. How old are the kids?
 
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In my state, there is a religious exemption which my ex uses. She says she is Catholic and that vaccines are against the basic tenets of the Church. It’s a lie that she commits on the affidavit every year.
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You could get copies and next time you go to court, you can show those affidavits as evidence along with a witness from either the Archdiocese or the Catholic School confirming each Affidavit is a lie.
 
I used the lying affidavit at court during the custody trial to impeach her. Lies are epidemic is family court it seems.
 
So now you have evidence a continuous pattern of criminal behavior.
 
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