The reason why we have Catholic Schools and other things is because without Catholic Schools are children will not know of the true church and the Catholic Church will sooner or later just disappear.
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Catholic answer:Jesus, Himself, guaranteed to be with His church until the end of time. I kind of doubt that it will just disappear if we fail in our Catholic education. But it is true that it is important to pass the faith on to the next generation, and, Catholic education has played a big role in that during the past. One of the current drives right now is home schooling because parents are so upset with the education system and with good reason. True Catholic education, whether at a Catholic school or taught at home instills good Christian morals into our children, gives them a knowledge of God and His church. A great many of our priests come from Catholic education. Non-Catholic education in the United States has been dictated to by the government and the unions to the point where we really have to educate our children ourselves to insure that they get a quality education.The purpose of Catholic schools is to educate children.
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AnswerPreviously, Catholic schools, historically, were started in the United States because the secular education at that time had a very pronounced protestant leaning. As a young person in junior high school, in the public schools, I was required to memorize a psalm from the King James Version of The Bible and we recited the Our Father daily in school, the protestant version of that prayer. So Catholic schools were an opportunity to educate children without indoctrination and make available specific Catholic practices such as daily Mass, and learning Catholic philosophy and such. Today it is not so much protestant beliefs one must get away from as the overwhelming secular, sex-saturated culture that pervades the schools. To pass health class in a local public school near me one must compose a "rap" about sexually transmitted diseases.A:
The Church has taught that Catholics have an obligation to send their children to Catholic schools if they are able to do so. Attendance at a Catholic school ensures indoctrination in the Catholic faith.
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The exact meaning of Catholic education has changed over the centuries. In the first millennium, in Europe, it was about the only education that anybody got. Higher education (at that time, just learning to read, write, etc.) was mostly confined to the monasteries and convents. They started the first schools which would later become colleges and universities. To this day Benedictines still teach in many schools. In the United States Catholic education at one time became the overwhelming way in which Catholic youth were taught so as to avoid the protestant indoctrination in the public schools (I have personal experience of this going through the public school system in the 1960's.) Nowadays, it is more to avoid the secular indoctrination than the old protestant indoctrination, at least that was Christian, this isn't even religious.
Schools that are sponsored by the Catholic church are referred to as Catholic schools.
It is like a promotional week for all catholic schools and to celebrate all the catholic schools.
Catholic schools week is important because its helps us understand the importance of Catholic schools education,skills, and to represent the learning skills a child or children can learn from Catholic school.
There are millions of Catholics in the UK and many of them want to be able to go to Catholic schools, so naturally there is a lot of Catholic schools in the UK.
The first Catholic Schools week was in 1974.
Catholic schools are not always built on hills, the Catholic school that I go to is not built on a hill.
I can not speak for all the different Catholic schools but many teachers in Catholic schools earn about half that of a teacher in public schools in the same area.
The National Catholic Educational Assocation speaks of Catholic Schools Week, see link below.
When it comes to declaring a snow day, Catholic schools generally follow the lead of public schools in the area. If the public schools declare a snow day, Catholic schools will generally follow suit.
More people attend public schools. Many can not afford the tuition for catholic schools or do not want their children taught in the catholic faith because of other religious beliefs.
Catholic schools are not a monolithic structure. There are Catholic schools run by individual parishes, there are Catholic schools run by dioceses, there are Catholic schools run by religious Orders, each of them is governed differently. Most Catholic schools in one diocese are directly under the Bishop in one way or another, and there are some Bishops who have signed onto the Common Core Curriculum, there are others who are very much opposed to it, you would need to check with your local Catholic school to see where they stand on this issue.
Catholic schools are schools that pay reference to God in school, whereas reference to God would be considered offensive to non catholic students in a public school. Catholic schools usually enforce a uniform policy and have higher standards than public schools.