Long ago the Catholic Church stopped worrying about teaching Religion in grade schools. They don’t have the Wonderful Nuns who gave their time without pay for the Love of Christ. Catholic education is the worse for that loss of dedicated People.I have had 12 years of Catholic education and I am the better for that. Both my children did not receive Catholic school Ed.’ they don’t have the strong background that my wife and I had.
There was no Room at the schools where we lived ever!
Great amounts of money was spent in legal battles over the last decade or more, More’s the pity.
My 8 year old granddaughter living in upstate NY goes to Catholic elementary school and so far is getting a great Catholic education. Starting in Kindergarden she started religious education and now in 3rd grade she knows more prayers than I do and goes to Mass every Friday (in school).
But the school is suffering from money problems and cut out the breakfast program a few months ago. My daughter got word last month that more Catholic schools in Western NY will be closing. They use to be all over the place. That’s a shame because although not as good as they use to be, they are still 1000 times better than any public education. Just a damn shame that Christianity is suffering all over the country, in all denominations.