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I applaud your efforts in in the start-up group for the middle schoolers. CCD fails because content is "watered down" and there is little, if any parental involvement. Kids are "dropped off" for their weekly instruction about Jesus is My Friend year after year. That's fine for preschoolers, but kids are so much more sophisticated with technology and presentation skills, etc. that they need and deserve a challenge learning about their faith. Kids do extensive research projects for school, then are given "fill-in-the blank" papers as CCD homework. That's a joke. No wonder the kids are turned off. Are the other parents in the start-up group supportive of your suggestions? If so, you certainly outnumber the nun, and perhaps she'll go along. But if the nun and the parents are not of one mind in approach and content, it will only mean more headaches for you. I do hope your group is successful, even if it means leaving the nun behind.

Thanks Rita.

You are right about the CCD classes, a complete waste of time. I have no idea why parents bother sending their kids, to tell you the truth. It seems to me from listening to most of them, that they are just keeping their kids there in order to make Confirmation and to get married in the Church - but I don't think that most do it for any religious reasons.

I don't know if most/some of the mother's agreed with me, time will tell. I'll explain myself more clearly to them at future meetings, if I'm not kicked out. A "holy-roller" approach is just as bad as the "Jesus is my friend" approach - I think the right way to go is somewhere down the middle.

I swear, a lot of these nuns are the problem.