And this is a school run by evil Pearson who controls all the textbooks, so that’s a bit of a comfort even as America’s educational standards slip down the tubes.
And this is a school run by evil Pearson who controls all the textbooks, so that’s a bit of a comfort even as America’s educational standards slip down the tubes.
Hell, when I was in Catholic high school, there was a world religions class, and we learned all sorts of stuff about all sorts of religions, without any snark or derision or sense of superiority. I still remember that there’s an eightfold path to union with Buddha, though I don’t remember any of the steps on that path.
I was even the “resident non-believer” in class discussions, and I only felt a little twinge of weirdness from other students (but not the teacher). I was already an outsider so I didn’t care. I suppose Catholic school isn’t as bad as generic Christian (read: evangelical) school.
Christian school kid here. It was so cringey.
“OK kids, let’s all have a giggle about how silly all the kids at public schools are because they think their ancestors were monkeys. We know the truth is that magical rainbow sky fairies created us and if we all believe this hard enough the sky faires will make sure nothing bad happens to anyone we care about but fuck those other cunts.”
Extremely case by case
Yup, I also went through Catholic grade school and received my first F in anything in the third grade. It was because I had a grievance with the way my ancient nun of a teacher explained heaven. I kept asking her about how the other ideas of heaven (nirvana/valhalla/ whatever else I had heard of be age 8) couldn’t all be the same place just viewed through other languages/cultures. She ended up slapping me and giving me a failing grade in religion.
I have continued to fail at religion as a lifelong practice. She helped cement some contrarianism in me to the point where I actually read the whole bible by 6th grade so as to be better prepared for debates.
Yeah. My grandmother sent my father to a Catholic school in part for the cult indoctrination… at least she has enough sense to be appalled about that specific school being one of the Catholic facilities involved in their child rape scandals at the time he was attending.