Would you keep your children in Cath. school if they were exposed to scandal, daily?

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Would you keep your children in a Catholic school if they were continuously and daily exposed to a scandalous situation?

What if it enabled you to fight a good fight and combat the actual scandal occuring?

What if you couldn’t fight the scandalous situation without keeping your children in the school and thereby exposing them to the scandalous situation?

Would risking their souls be worth it to you?
 
The sin of scandal is not to be neglect, but don’t let us run into an obssession. Children are exposed to various things daily and pretending that mother earth is already paradise would do them no good.
 
School is not about a fight, it is about the best placement of my child. I’d put them in the best place, based on available choices.
 
If the scandal was serious enough, defiant **and **unresolvable, they would be removed. I would do this for the protection of the children (if they were young) and to withdraw support from an institution that defied the Church.
 
PNewton has it. If the scandal cannot be corrected, “. . .shake the dust of (that) town from your sandals” and hit the High Road.
 
There comes a time, that if it is a losing battle, or a prolonged battle that you personally do not feel called to take up arms against, to simply bail ship. Put another way, if the ship is not salvageable, then cut your losses and find/create one that is exisiting for the glory of God.
 
I say we use our children as implements of evangelization. We send them to school as sheep among wolves, and we give them the spiritual wherewithal to become stronger as they bring their goodness to the school.

Evangelization should start right within our parish, and what better way to put oneself in a position to do so, than to infiltrate the school with happy, joyful children. When we homeschooled three of our children the school begged to get them back. We obliged, for personal reasons partly, but in part because we thought the school and the other children needed them.

Alan
 
The term “scandalous situation” is so vague that it is virtually meaningless. There’s no real way to answer the question. Different people can have different interpretations of what is a “scandalous situation”.

Maybe someone thinks that it is scandalous if another kid’s mother is living in sin. No reasonable person would remove his kid from a school just because of that.

In short, this thread is pointless.
 
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Benedictus:
The term “scandalous situation” is so vague that it is virtually meaningless. There’s no real way to answer the question. Different people can have different interpretations of what is a “scandalous situation”.

Maybe someone thinks that it is scandalous if another kid’s mother is living in sin. No reasonable person would remove his kid from a school just because of that.

In short, this thread is pointless.
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I disagree. I thought you made a very good point. 👍

Alan
 
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Benedictus:
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so cranky! 😉

anyway, let’s say the situation is a a “married” homosexual couple with four adopted children. the couple shows up regularly at lunch, the playground, daily mass, etc.

would you keep your children in the school and continually expose them to this normalization of an immoral lifestyle? thereby exposing them daily to a scandalous situation?
 
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Princess_Abby:
anyway, let’s say the situation is a a “married” homosexual couple with four adopted children. the couple shows up regularly at lunch, the playground, daily mass, etc.

would you keep your children in the school and continually expose them to this normalization of an immoral lifestyle? thereby exposing them daily to a scandalous situation?
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If that was the only thing really wrong, I probably would not remove them. I often use other peoples’ behavior to teach the children how to get along with people regardless of knowledge of their sins. For example, if they come home and told me Heather has Two Mommies or something like that, that would give me a launching point to teach them about how some people think it’s OK to do that but we do not. I can also teach them how to keep their place, neither blaming or shunning the affected children, or gossiping about the parents.

Alan
 
Oh, another thing is that sometimes my kids hang around with children who have various problems. My reaction used to be to limit the childrens’ friends, until one time the parent of a troubled child pleaded with us to let our child stay friends with them.

That’s when I finally realized that these children are God’s gifts to us, and we are responsible for their growing into good stewards. If they befriend troubled kids and give them a bright spot in their lives, then they are learning while I am still alive to carry on with works of mercy after I’m too dead to do it by myself.

Alan
 
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AlanFromWichita:
If that was the only thing really wrong, I probably would not remove them. I often use other peoples’ behavior to teach the children how to get along with people regardless of knowledge of their sins. For example, if they come home and told me Heather has Two Mommies or something like that, that would give me a launching point to teach them about how some people think it’s OK to do that but we do not. I can also teach them how to keep their place, neither blaming or shunning the affected children, or gossiping about the parents.

Alan
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I definitely agree.
 
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