Meet my 6th grade CATHOLIC school daughter and her friends and then get back to me. They are some of the sweetest kids you’ll ever know.
I know you would throw a hissy fit if someone used the broad brush against all homeschoolers, and so would I. I love homeschooling. I have homeschooled. I have friends who do it.
Like a lot of homeschooling families, we sacrifice a lot to give our kids a good education. Why in the world do homeschoolers want to turn on the good private schools out there? My husband and I are actively involved in both the school and the church.
I spent 9 years in Catholic schools and can’t remember any of the stuff you described. It may have been 20 years ago, but I remember it fondly. I’m not saying there are no problematic Catholic schools—I know there are (I can think of one in our town even, which is why my kids aren’t there). Ours is a good conservative parish with full attendance at several Masses each weekend, Perpetual Adoration, long lines at confession, larger families, and several young men preparing for the priesthood. They went to the Catholic school associated with our church. I guess that makes them damaged goods in your eyes.
But then again, if it makes you feel good to smugly sit behind your computer and look down at the rest of us poor schmucks with our kids in Catholic school, have at it. Just remember we are supposed to be on the same side. I guess we just don’t love our kids as much as you do. Must be wonderful to have the lock on perfection.
My answer was a response to this.
>>There is no other place better equipped for success than Catholic Schools<<
I’m sure your daughter and her friends are very nice. I also know that Catholic schools are breeding grounds for the same secular problems as Public Schools. Fantastic you found a good one, now stop with the “you insulted me” whine. It’s unbecoming when someone personalized another’s experience. That’s MY years of Catholic School, my nieces and nephews who went through the 90’s, and my Goddaughter that graduated three years ago. Hellsbells, you even state there is a bad Catholic school near you, for Heaven’s sake.
So, don’t bother to rant to me. Catholic schools are not bubbles of sainthood.
>>But then again, if it makes you feel good to smugly sit behind your computer and look down at the rest of us poor schmucks with our kids in Catholic school, have at it. Just remember we are supposed to be on the same side. I guess we just don’t love our kids as much as you do. Must be wonderful to have the lock on perfection.<<
I have no clue where this bit of victimhood came from. Trust me, you do no more sacrificing for your kid’s education than anyone using Seton or Kolbe. Time to step back from the computer and evaluate who’s side YOU’RE on. Because while I might have ‘insulted’ Catholic schools, You got personal. Nice. Is that part of your “Faith Formation”?