To: frogjerk
The issue is the (Catholic) kids being expelled from school entirely because of their parents' non-attendance at Mass on Sundays.
Do they only allow Catholic children to be enrolled?
Maybe it's different down South where I live, because there has always been at least 10% non-Catholic students in mine and my son's Catholic schools
29 posted on
06/27/2005 1:54:39 PM PDT by
vrwcagent0498
(Mark Levin and Ann Coulter are my patron saints.)
To: vrwcagent0498
The pastor of a Staten Island Catholic church is playing holy hardball - kicking hundreds of kids out of religious ed classes because their families aren't showing up at Mass..
This is regarding CCD not regular school.
39 posted on
06/27/2005 1:57:21 PM PDT by
frogjerk
To: vrwcagent0498
you aren't getting it. this is NOT about attendance at a Catholic elementary school. it is CCD, which is religion class for kids who attend public school, and which is required for them to be able to receive the sacraments. My kids attend catholic school with noncatholics, but there is no point to having any nonCatholics in a catholic education class.
43 posted on
06/27/2005 1:58:24 PM PDT by
xsmommy
To: vrwcagent0498
Maybe it's different down South where I live, because there has always been at least 10% non-Catholic students in mine and my son's Catholic schools >>>
It sounds like they were in weekly CCD, Sunday school classes and not enrolled full-time in Catholic elementary school. And yes, non-catholic parents do send their children to catholic schools for the discipline, morals and values emphasis to education.
83 posted on
06/27/2005 2:11:51 PM PDT by
Coleus
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