Saturday, April 21, 2012
More information please: why do people who think catechism is inappropriate for children send their kids to Catholic school
Recently in the news: parents who are opposed to a Catholic school brochure that describes homosexuals as "objectively disordered".
My (and, likely, many others') first reaction was to roll my eyes. The "objectively disordered" wording comes from the Catechism of the Catholic Church. So my first thought was "If you don't like the teaching of the Catholic church maybe you shouldn't be sending your kids to Catholic school!"
But this is a glaringly obvious question - the first one that comes to mind when one recognizes or learns that the objectionable phrase is taken directly from catechism.
So why did the reporter not ask that question and put the answer in the article? It does mention in passing that one of the mothers is Catholic, but that actually raises more question than it answers. If she's Catholic, she's more likely to already be familiar with the catechism, which means that she's identifying with this religion despite the fact that it considers her "objectively disordered". But she doesn't consider this teaching of the religion she identifies with appropriate for her kids? What leads a person to lead their life in such a self-contradictory way?
It makes the parents look foolish to present these contradictions without explanations, and the Star is doing them a disservice by printing this story without answering these questions.
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Do parents in Ontario send their kids to Catholic school because they provide better education? I know in many parts of the US where public education is extremely crappy, non-Catholics send their kids to Catholic schools because they have smaller class sizes, better equipment, and such. No idea if the same thing happens here.
I think it would vary from school to school. I've had people who went to Catholic school genuinely surprised that I got into university from a public school. (Don't know if that's an accurate reflection of the relative quality of the schools in their area or just bias.) But the public high school I went to was far superior to its Catholic counterpart. My mother actually taught in both boards at different times, and made her decision to send us to public school based on her experience.
I can't imagine any systemic factors that would make a Catholic school better just because it's a Catholic school. From my perspective, they actually seem to be at a bit of a disadvantage out of the starting blocks, because mandatory religion classes take away instructional time that could otherwise be spent on providing a more well-rounded education.
Other than that, I have no idea why a queer or queer-friendly person would send their kids to Catholic school. It's not far from a black family sending their kids to a Klan meeting, then complaining about their anti-black agenda.
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