If you’ve ever taught youth in catechism you know there are quite a few there who are only there because their parents make them go.
I look at it as a “stoopid teenage trick” because I’m sure they didn’t think of the consequences or the ramifications. I feel sorry for them and their parents, and parish.
Yes, I have taught CCD, and encountered rebellious children. Like the ninth grade girl who had four absences in a row. When the coordinator paid a visit to her parents, they said they dropped her off every Wed. evening at Church and picked her up at 8:30. Thing is, she was with a boyfriend at his house instead of in class.