Please do keep your eyes open. Many parents today who send their children to Catholic school expect it to be the way it was for them.
I spent 12 years in Catholic school, in the 1950s-1960s, and I received an excellent education from the Franciscan Sisters of Glenriddle. Those sisters not only taught us academic subjects, but they also reinforced our parents’ moral teachings and behavior codes, and they kept a tight rein on our adolescent shenanigans in high school.
Today’s Catholic schools are often run by lay leftists, who interpret Catholic teaching to suit their warped world view. There are few teaching sisters these days, and, unfortunately, having a sister teaching your child does not guarantee orthodoxy in the classroom, as some of the orders have been overrun by leftist philosophies. My beloved Franciscans, e.g., have morphed into a “social justice” crowd.
I sent all 4 of my children to Catholic schools and I taught in Catholic schools for over 20 years. The changes that I witnessed were heartbreaking.
You are SO right! If you grew up attending Catholic schools in the 60s you remember a world long gone. I sent (and paid for) my own kids to my old schools and was amazed at how secular they had become, with creepy liberal opinions the norm. I asked a teacher who was there through the transition (mid-late 70s) and she told me that forced bussing was the culprit.
Waiting lists surged for Catholic schools, so tuition climbed with the market. Non Catholic parents with money nudged out local Catholics. I can’t really blame the parents, it was local Catholic school or distant dangerous school for their kids (some choice!). Suddenly they had majority non-Catholic students and “had to” assuage non-Catholic parents fears. Out went religion.