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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
Congratulations to your daughter and to you.

Our family is not Catholic but we have the greatest respect for Catholicism and Catholics. If I could wake up one day and find that every Catholic child was in a **traditional** and conservative education setting, I would be thrilled. Imagine how greatly our nation would be blessed.

Sadly...Not all Catholic schools are truly Catholic. My daughter taught math in a Texas Catholic K-8 school. All of the teachers and the principal voted for Obama, a man who voted **three** times to allow babies who survived abortion to suffer a chilly death in the bottom of a hospital stainless steel utility room sink. My daughter's class was the only class than did not watch Obama flub his inauguration oath.

A Freeper told me that traditional Catholic families are joining together, hiring a teacher, and essentially running their own parent-led and independent one-room Catholic schools. Sounds like a good idea to me, not just for Catholics but all Christian denominations.

56 posted on 03/24/2012 9:32:03 AM PDT by wintertime (Reforming a government K-12 school is like reforming an abortion center.)
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To: wintertime

-—Sadly...Not all Catholic schools are truly Catholic-—

It’s true. Bishop Sheen famously stated, back in the 50s or 60s, “It’s better for a Catholic child to enter a public school and have to fight for his faith, then to enter a Catholic school and lose it.”

I doubt he’d make that statement today, since the govt schools have descended beyond every imaginable limit.

My daughter is aware of this widespread religious ignorance, having participated in Catholic teen activities and having taught religious ed. She’s already jumped into the fray, as we all should.

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You might find the following interesting.

Have you ever seen the horror movie, “The Wicker Man?” (1973?) It depicts a post-Christian, neo-pagan, isolated Scottish island society.

In one classroom scene, the teacher graphically describes sexual acts to indifferent young children. While still shocking, the content is probably mild, compared to “sex ed” today. I noticed that the scene is carefully edited. The teacher making the graphic sexual statements is always shown in close-up. The child actors were not allowed to actually hear her statements. Times have changed.

I dare any parent to sit through this scene, and remain indifferent to the sexual desensitization of children.


58 posted on 03/24/2012 10:24:06 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey)
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