Non-Catholics in Catholic School Experiences?

[Christine]

Eh, depends on where you are. This area also has several Lutheran High Schools, 2 Jewish high schools, and a Seventh-Day Adventist high school, plus the half dozen or so "Independent" nondenominational private high schools that are not affiliated with any religion. There are also a couple of "Christian" high schools and a Muslim school which was created so that they could have a gender-segregated school that allowed time for the ritual prayers.

Yes, I am sure it is a regional thing based on regions where one religion is more populated than another.

I do know that in this area, Catholic is the biggy for high schools. Episcopal High probably comes in next. And by that, I mean a truly brick-and-mortar high school experiences (stand alone building, large population, etc).

There are many smaller high schools that are Christian-based but are operated out of the church facilities, rented strip mall space, that kind of thing.

While I'm not Catholic, I was looking for a more "traditional" high school experience for my daughter and the Catholic high schools around here certainly fit that criteria.

 

[SydSim]

I don't think any other religion has "done high school proper" like the Catholic church!

I think that the Friends Schools (run by the Quakers) would beg to differ, as well as some local Jewish schools

 

[Christine]

I think that the Friends Schools (run by the Quakers) would beg to differ, as well as some local Jewish schools

I was speaking in terms of my own locality--sorry, didn't mean to offend.

 

[SydSim]

OP, Why don't you just have your children attend a parochial school of your own religion (or "non-demoninational Christian" type instead of a Catholic one then? I don't understand.

Not every denomination has a school affiliated with it like the Catholic churches do And for the record, I don't have a problem with DD attending Catholic school, I just wanted to know other people's experiences with it. I have heard a lot about Catholic school education being "better" than public school education, but I wasn't sure how non-Catholics experiences were.
Around here, choices for high schools other than public, are extremely limited. That's why I'm looking at Catholic schools.