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Toured a Catholic school today...

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  • Toured a Catholic school today...

    My kid won't be a toddler forever. I decided to tour our local Catholic school just to see what it's like for kids there. The side of town we live on doesn't have the best public schools, so our options are to either move to a zone with a good public school or go private if we stay here. I'm also unemployed at the moment, so I don't have much better to do and it's good to get out of the house.

    I have a history with this school. I went there in Kindergarten and First grade and had an absolutely horrible experience. I have aspergers and the teachers didn't know how to help me or what to do about my behavior back then. I won't go into specifics, but suffice to say it was difficult going back after 27 years. I had to tell myself while my wife held my hand sometimes that this place is new, the people are different now, and the rules are different from when I was a child. I never told any of the staff while I was touring there that I was a student at one time. I didn't recognize anyone from my childhood, either.

    Regardless, I liked the place. I was impressed by the curriculum, the way the school worked, and the preschool. The teachers seemed professional and friendly. They answered our questions pretty well and gave us some good information books about it. My biggest worry was about participation in church activities. The kids have a Catholic liturgy every week. I was reassured that non-Catholic students, even Orthodox ones, don't take communion and aren't a part of the liturgy (altar boys, servers, etc). The priest at the church next to the school is conservative and understands these issues pretty well and won't commune kids who are either Catholic and aren't ready for their first communion or are another Church or religion.

    I do have a few hangups: 1. No summer programs, even for preschool kids. 2. We're Orthodox and I'm afraid that might confuse our child at such a young age as to why he can't participate in communion or anything in a weekly liturgy for school. 3. More expensive tuition for non-Catholics. I find this a bit irritating, but can live with it.

    Have you guys ever had to send your children to school of a different beliefs or church than your own? What was it like?

    (Also, mods, feel free to move this thread if this isn't quite the right forum for it).
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    wait. what? You are Eastern Orthodox and you want to send your kid to a Catholic school? What would your pope say?

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Sparko View Post
      wait. what? You are Eastern Orthodox and you want to send your kid to a Catholic school? What would your pope say?
      We don't have a pope. Orthodox have sent their kids to Catholic schools before. Usually goes without incident. This is just one option that we're exploring. Going to check out a Montessori school sometime soon as well.
      "Concentrate on what you have to do. Fix your eyes on it. Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human being; remind yourself what nature demands of people. Then do it, without hesitation, and speak the truth as you see it. But with kindness. With humility. Without hypocrisy."
      -Marcus Aurelius

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      • #4
        Originally posted by T-Shirt Ninja View Post
        We don't have a pope. Orthodox have sent their kids to Catholic schools before. Usually goes without incident. This is just one option that we're exploring. Going to check out a Montessori school sometime soon as well.
        Oh. I guess that is just the Greek Orthodox then?

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Sparko View Post
          Oh. I guess that is just the Greek Orthodox then?
          Greek Orthodox don't have a pope, either. We all have bishops. None of them have said, as far as I know, that sending kids to Catholic school for education was forbidden.
          "Concentrate on what you have to do. Fix your eyes on it. Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human being; remind yourself what nature demands of people. Then do it, without hesitation, and speak the truth as you see it. But with kindness. With humility. Without hypocrisy."
          -Marcus Aurelius

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          • #6
            Originally posted by T-Shirt Ninja View Post
            Greek Orthodox don't have a pope, either. We all have bishops. None of them have said, as far as I know, that sending kids to Catholic school for education was forbidden.
            really? I thought that there was some orthodox Pope, that there was a big fight when the church split and they ended up with two popes, one for the Catholics and one for the Orthodox?

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Sparko View Post
              really? I thought that there was some orthodox Pope, that there was a big fight when the church split and they ended up with two popes, one for the Catholics and one for the Orthodox?
              Nope. There were five (significant) Patriarchs, and there was a big fight when the one in Rome decided that all the others should submit to HIM, and tried to force the issue.

              There aren't generally enough Orthodox in an area to open an Orthodox school. Roman Catholics are closest to Orthodoxy in doctrine and practice, so Orthodox parents tend to send their kids to Catholic schools as the least worst option, although homeschooling is growing in popularity.
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              • #8
                Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                Nope. There were five (significant) Patriarchs, and there was a big fight when the one in Rome decided that all the others should submit to HIM, and tried to force the issue.

                There aren't generally enough Orthodox in an area to open an Orthodox school. Roman Catholics are closest to Orthodoxy in doctrine and practice, so Orthodox parents tend to send their kids to Catholic schools as the least worst option, although homeschooling is growing in popularity.
                Interesting. thanks..

                while I was waiting, I googled and found this (of course it is wiki, grain of salt and all that)

                The Patriarch of Alexandria is the archbishop of Alexandria, Egypt. Historically, this office has included the designation "pope" (etymologically "Father", like "Abbot")



                (sorry for the derial)

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                  really? I thought that there was some orthodox Pope, that there was a big fight when the church split and they ended up with two popes, one for the Catholics and one for the Orthodox?
                  Maybe you're mixing us up with Coptic Orthodox (who do have a pope)? That split predates the Catholic/Orthodox split so we did have a pope at the time.
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                    Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                    Interesting. thanks..

                    while I was waiting, I googled and found this (of course it is wiki, grain of salt and all that)

                    The Patriarch of Alexandria is the archbishop of Alexandria, Egypt. Historically, this office has included the designation "pope" (etymologically "Father", like "Abbot")



                    (sorry for the derial)
                    That's accurate. In the East, the term has never been restricted to the Patriarch of Rome.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Darth Executor View Post
                      Maybe you're mixing us up with Coptic Orthodox (who do have a pope)? That split predates the Catholic/Orthodox split so we did have a pope at the time.
                      In name, yes. However, the powers the Pope of Rome has arrogated to himself were never similarly claimed by anyone in the East.
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                      • #12
                        I wouldn't have a problem sending a kid to a Catholic school. I would have more of a problem sending a kid to private Protestant schools that mandate YEC instruction and require social studies teachers to teach a "limited government" perspective, which seems fairly obvious code (as I have observed from some schools around here).
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
                          I wouldn't have a problem sending a kid to a Catholic school. I would have more of a problem sending a kid to private Protestant schools that mandate YEC instruction and require social studies teachers to teach a "limited government" perspective, which seems fairly obvious code (as I have observed from some schools around here).
                          There are schools like that in my area as well. I'm definitely not considering them. The YEC thing would be an issue for me. Also, I'm pretty sure they would try as hard as they could to convert my son to their religion by telling him that he'd be going to hell for being Orthodox.
                          "Concentrate on what you have to do. Fix your eyes on it. Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human being; remind yourself what nature demands of people. Then do it, without hesitation, and speak the truth as you see it. But with kindness. With humility. Without hypocrisy."
                          -Marcus Aurelius

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by T-Shirt Ninja View Post
                            There are schools like that in my area as well. I'm definitely not considering them. The YEC thing would be an issue for me. Also, I'm pretty sure they would try as hard as they could to convert my son to their religion by telling him that he'd be going to hell for being Orthodox.
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
                              Wait a minute. You mean you aren't?
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