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jabbadarth t1_ixajgzf wrote

I mean that sucks but it's a private catholic school with no oversight and it's own rules.

I mean at this point why anyone would send their kid to a catholic school is beyond me.

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PuzzleheadedRepeat41 t1_ixau9t4 wrote

There are some that are fairly liberal. More time to teach basics instead of the interruption in the school schedule/admin to cover things that student won’t remember anyway.

Many Protestants send their kids there — not for the religion, but usually the behavior there a bit more tolerable. If a kid acts up too much, he’s out. Whereas in public school, the behaved kids suffer because. the nasty, troubled kids stay because they don’t know what to do with them. Simple really. YMMV

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ForwardMuffin t1_ixd1jdp wrote

My Catholic high school was pretty liberal. We also had some Jewish people in our class.

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wee_bey t1_ixd3tc2 wrote

My Catholic school was fairly liberal as well. We had kids of all faiths (Jewish, Muslim, flavors of protestant) and you could generally opt out of most of the religious stuff with a valid reason. You had to take religion classes but they weren't really even Catholic - it was stuff like a critical reading of the bible, philosophy, comparative religions etc.

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ForwardMuffin t1_ixd6ax0 wrote

Same - we had world religion too. And it's easy saying it from this side, but if you had to sit through masses not of your faith, I imagine that would build patience, which is a virtue! (no pun intended)

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peteypie4246 t1_ixdio7j wrote

Yup, I went to Calvert Hall, and it was exactly the same. There was a Jewish kid in my grade, and plenty of those of protestant sects. If you didn't want communion, you just didn't stand up and go. Christianity courses were not Catholic-centric but Christianity centric. Ffs, our morning prayer ended with a prayer to St. John Baptist de La Salle, bunch of protestants specifically don't pray to Saints, so they didn't say it. No one cared. Idk wtf is up this school's ass, but good luck keeping enrollment up with that kind of mentality.

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jerby17 t1_ixcnybn wrote

People pay money to send kids to private schools to avoid sending them to overcrowded and extremely underfunded public schools in the city. There are only so many choices in an area and more often than not most have religion intertwined.

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gaytee t1_ixdk4o2 wrote

Because religion aside they’re still better schools on many metrics than anything the government provides. My catholic school approached most of the religion courses as history and exposure. We had mass a few times a year but even as firm atheist now I’d still be inclined to send my kids there or somewhere similar.

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_Alvin_Row_ t1_ixb6nee wrote

It's not no oversight. It's archdiocesan oversight, and they'd never turn a blind eye to important things like class rings.

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jabbadarth t1_ixb7j4e wrote

The article said that the catholic highschool specifically is not an archdiocesan school. It's independant.

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KeriLynnMC t1_ixbfjif wrote

Correct, the school is independent of the AoB.

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