[Yaelle]

I was searching for the right school for one of my kids and I actually went to tour a catholic school just in case. Even though we are not Christian. The principal told me they have many Muslim families because the area had no Muslim schools (yet). So you do wonder, do they respect the tuition by others so much that they will rip off the purpose of the school for it?

[Steve_Seattle]

"I was searching for the right school for one of my kids and I actually went to tour a catholic school just in case. Even though we are not Christian. The principal told me they have many Muslim families because the area had no Muslim schools (yet). So you do wonder, do they respect the tuition by others so much that they will rip off the purpose of the school for it?"

I think that is exactly what is happening. Many Catholic schools now have a student body that is 30%-60% non-Catholic. The Catholicism gets watered down into a general "niceness," and the kids emerge as virtual clones of their public school counterparts, albeit with perhaps an educational advantage because of a less dumbed-down curriculum.