Catholic vs Public: Schools

Discuss 

Well There are 13 Grand children of my Parents

ALL are university graduates : couple to the PhD doctoral level

NONE went to a Catholic school

ALL went to Public school...

Any of you Folks kids went Catholic School ?

How far did their academic life go  ???

i went to catholic school...i loved it better than public school - our teachers were far better.


i came out fine and by the grace of god - i have a great career.


my husband is a product of public school and hes super smart and works in finance...but Catholic school is better is some respects...hopefully i will send mine kids to catholic school.


btw....going to elementary catholic school - you have to have someone thats catholic or else you have to get baptised in order to attend. high school - anyone can go.  I went to our lady of mount carmel and there were a TON of muslim students that went there....and no one forced anyone to partake in prayer services etc.


like i said.....kids in high school - we dont give a shit about religion...we just came to learn and be with friends.  no one was thinking about God.

I went to catholic school.  my experience was the opposite.  I look back at catholic school with a great deal of bitterness.

I wud drive religions out of schools..all of them.  they wud not be able to keep schools. 

religion wud become a private matter for the people to access, organize, express as they see fit.. in the church and their regular lives, but  not as organizers of schools.

education wud be and mus' be a general public matter, organized by the government but with full public participation at the national and local levels.  ...... a fully democratic and participatory, ever evolving process

and education wud be..mus' be.. free at all levels - from kindergarten to university.

no church!  I hate all church..especially the catholic church.  but that is not the point. 

religion is divisive and biased.  education is truth..must be truthful, factual, scientific and relevant to the day and needs of the society... not hamstrung according to any dam biased religious perspective and principle.

out with religion.  religion is for church, home, picnics, religious conventions, revivals and what the hell ever....but not in schools purposed by religious sectarianism

i dont know...i didnt pay too much attn or put too much emphasis on the religion part in school - i just enjoyed school....its interesting to read about everyones experience.


what didnt you like about catholic school mapoui?

its a long story that I mention at times but I do not get into details.  I don't like to tell it...

but I got awfully brutalized in catholic school..especially by the female teachers..one jet black one in particular with a leather belt, whom if I met today her life cud not be guaranteed.

the result... trauma and ruination for a long while before I came into control of it.  ( not that alone of course but that was a formative part of it)

and the catholic church in Trinidad I found to be distant and fraught.  to go to them for help was fraught.  they did not care.  they were all forrin white men who did not care..save where they were trying to play with my arse.  but I cud run fast and long..and twice I had to do that..run away.

I remember one local Trinidadian priest ever, among the multitude of forrin priests in the church.  and I met him shortly before I left Trinidad..a fair skin Indian Trinidadian. 

he presided over the marriage ceremony of an Indo/Afro couple I knew.  and at the reception afterwards we had a long talk.  he was solid in conversation..ideologically nationalist.

a handsome man whom all the girls were interested in..including my girlfriend...it was fair to wonder why he became a priest at all.  it seemed he cud take his pick..or have quite a lot of those girls who were clearly keen on him

so you were jealous

mapoui you cannot attach the person with religion!  and your experience is not a canadian experience or north american rather....


can we get some experience here in north america????


in the west indies it is known that you get lashes in school - religious or not...