[vrwcagent0498]

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

[frogjerk]

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.

[xsmommy]

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.

[Coleus]

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.