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[viet_mom]

I guess I should chime in here. I went to Catholic grammar school, an all-girls Catholic High School, I started at a Catholic college and then went to a Catholic law school. My favorite part of the "Catholic" portion of the schooling was the nuns. They really invested a lot of emotion and time into their students and being single without a family, they were always available to talk after school or just be there for you. Some people didn't bother with them, but I did and found many of these women were very interesting, tremendously educated and had travelled around the world.

In grammar school, I didn't feel that we had religion crammed down our throats. It was presumed you were Catholic so no proselytzing was necessary. The only awkward thing was the school allowed the local anti-abortion lady to come in and show that movie Silent Scream to us. But that was the only day we heard about abortion and nobody brought it up after or encouraged us to go on that yearly walk in DC. The day of the movie (I was in 7th grade), I went home and told my Mom that I was going to get involved in stopping the "killing of babies" and she sat me down to "tell me the other side of the story." Besides allowing the lady in that day, none of the Catholic schools I went to wanted to be involved in the Right to Life thing. They wanted to just run their school/churches.

In high school, we had mass at the school on holidays, some teachers were Nuns, etc. but it did not seem religious. Our theology class was where we learned about religions around the whole world, not Christianity. Two of the teachers at the school are Jewish and some students were non-Catholics. They were all embraced. I do not recall even one of my 65 fellow graduating students ever talking about God/Jesus or anything else. It was an atmosphere of discipline but we had the same interests of high school girls everywhere.

Just my experiences.