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Is it a good idea to put my non-Catholic daughter(s) in Catholic school?
I have a five-year old who still has another few years of Montessori school before she'll move on to another school, but I'm at a point where I need to decide whether to get a nicer house in an area with just slightly-above-average schools, or a kind of plain house in a great school district. The best private schools in the area are Catholic, namely a national blue-ribbon one that is PK-8. However, I was raised protestant, consider myself a secular humanist, and my ex-wife and I are raising our daughters with the intention of pressing neither secular humanism nor any religion on them. I honestly do not want religious indoctrination for my daughters at such a young age. Is a Roman Catholic school, even an excellent one, the wrong place to send them?
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- dripLv 71 decade agoFavourite answer
I think it is. They are going to be surrounded by Roman Catholics, They are going to have to take religion classes. Do you want them to be raised catholic? Because that is what they are going to be taught there.
My son went to a Christian school for a couple of years. It was Baptist. Many people sent their children there for the academics. But the Baptist beliefs were integrated in to all areas of study. They openly prayed in the class room and they went to church for services during the school year.