So, my son attends school at the church

[Easy Guns]

I'd be more worried about him being indoctrinated into the church of General Mills.

Good point

[GUBU]

I went to a Catholic school from k-8th grade. We had science class in every single grade, including learning about evolution. And yes, in 8th grade we all had lessons in French, German, and Spanish.

You're very lucky then.

As for learning about Catholic stuff, well um... duh. It's a Catholic school. Of course we learned about Catholic stuff. But we learned a lot about other stuff too. Much more than I did at the public high school I went to afterwards.

Private school, yes? Well the two schools I went to were completely funded by the state, but because the state is too chicken to enforce its laws when it comes to the rcc the church dictates the nature of schools in Ireland (amongst other things, like whether it should pay compensation to the victims of its mass criminality).

For being skeptics, some of you sure are quite the conspiracy theorists when Christians are involved.

Not a conspiracy theory when it's the truth. In my case I went through fourteen years of catholic exclusive schooling, when I should under Irish law and the constitution, exactly 0 seconds of catholic exclusive teaching.

[Edwardo Piet]

[abaris]

Not a conspiracy theory when it's the truth. In my case I went through fourteen years of catholic exclusive schooling, when I should under Irish law and the constitution, exactly 0 seconds of catholic exclusive teaching.

But when did that happen? I'm well aware that Ireland was the closest to a Catholic theocracy for decades, but the church seems to have lost a lot of clout since then. The vote for gay marriage being a good indicator.

[GUBU]

Not a conspiracy theory when it's the truth. In my case I went through fourteen years of catholic exclusive schooling, when I should under Irish law and the constitution, exactly 0 seconds of catholic exclusive teaching.

But when did that happen? I'm well aware that Ireland was the closest to a Catholic theocracy for decades, but the church seems to have lost a lot of clout since then. The vote for gay marriage being a good indicator.

The situation was created in 1837 when the British govt bowed to the combined bullying of the rcc and the coi who wanted control of the secular national school system created 7 years previosly.

And then you've got by far the most conservative department in Education, with teachers spending 18 years in religious schools (the only non catlick teacher training college is a Dublin based coi one, and the colleges are getting more fundie), the civil servants from consevative catlick rural backgrounds, and few responsible ministers either competdepeent enough nor independence of thought to modernise the system as is badly needed.