ONTD

already done, it was the topmost post yesterday.

LOL, she's PISSED XD

Did people actually believe she didn't have that great of a chance? Rubbish. I only wanted them to go to court because that would be delicious.

Since according to Scientology, she's a suppressive. By Tom's 'religion', he should disconnect himself from his ex wife and daughter. You could do that, Kate!

mte. I hated attending mass.

mte

yeah, poor girl

Like, we'd go to mass every first Friday, and only be glad because we'd miss the first two periods, and then having the first break. :D

I'm an atheist and had to go to catholic schools until I went to college. I hated having to go to mass but in the long run I think it taught me to be tolerant of other people's faiths.

(Just me though--it's not for everyone.)

At least it's only once a week. In my cousin's school, they attended Mass everyday, first thing in the morning. Even had Latin classes and everything. I still don't understand why my aunt enrolled them in a strict, Opus Dei-affiliated school when they could've easily attended my super chill Catholic school.

IKR. I had to attend mass AT 7 AM the first friday of every month for like.... 8 years.

yes. we had to attend informal mass everyday except friday's, where we attended formal mass. fuck that!

mfte

The most lasting lesson I got out of going to Mass was "wine is awesome". Everything else falls behind that.

It isn't bad. I had to attend mass twice a week in Catholic school. You get used to it.

So let's see, attend mass or hold cans and be asked the same two questions for 9 hours?

It's better than her going to a Scientology school though...

yeah that's a bit overboard imo. I went to a really strict Catholic grammar school and we only had to go to mass in our chapel the first Friday of every month.

except during Lent...then we went to mass at the church down the block once a week in addition to the first Friday masses in the chapel.

i can't believe people have to do this at school. it reminds me of that scene in the craft where sarah makes skeet ulrich hold her books and shit

i'd take that over whatever the fuck happens in Scientology services

i loved mass b/c i loved communion lol

mte. Mass is so fucking boring. I had to go every Saturday evening when I was a kid and I loathed it. My mom wouldn't hear any excuses. My sister and I both left the church as soon as we possibly could. #oop

I didn't mind it in high school

I had to go 2-3 times a week from 1st to 5th grade. I think it's how I learned to space out completely.

But you get to skive maths and sing a bit. No biggie

Mass once a week is a blessing for a Catholic school. I was lucky in that since we went during school, mom didn't make us go on Sundays, too. Woohoo!! \o/

But it's not mass you have to worry about as a kid. It's that Stations of the Cross crap. I still have nightmares about how long those were. *shudders*

Seriously. I went to a Catholic elementary school and we had to go to mass once a week, PLUS whenever they had a special mass on a school day (Ash Wednesday or some saints thing). SO BORING. The pews are always uncomfortable. ALWAYS.

that's nothing. EVERY DAMNED DAY in the catholic convent I attended. Intense.

every first friday of the month for about 8 years. so glad I'm off that shit. proud atheist now. trololol.

attending mass was the worst part of my high school career

(jealous of it being only once, though - at my school it was twice a week)

I love going to Mass! I hated it when I was younger... but, now I love it. I go every Sunday.

I had to do it from kindergarten until the 12th grade...it was brutal, especially since I am not Catholic. My bffs and I would just trade notes back and forth.

Meh, I didn't mind. It made classes shorter!

i haaate mass. most boring thing of my life.

I want to kill myself

lol mte

lol

lol right?

lol ikr. The agnostic in me usually cringes at the idea of catholic school but just the fact that she is able to make these kinds of decisions herself is great imo.

hahah, ikr. Only Scientology can make Catholicism seem so appealing

lol that's exactly what I'm thinking. No Xenu? Major upgrade.

I said fuck off to catholicism when i was 15, but ita.

irk? lol

I feel the same way although I started out Catholic and at least they don't expect kids to evangelize and it is pretty easy to break away if you want to.

I know - I got out of the Catholic Church as fast as I possibly could,and I'm still 100% sure this is an upgrade.

Yeah, pretty much. Crazy, right?

I want to learn how to shoop like this, wtf

Did you make this?

Present

I loved both my catholic schools. I went from K-12th.

Kindergarten, then private school with weekly Catechism classes. That turned me anti-religion at a very young age.

Does college count? I went to a catholic university and it was a fucking nightmare.

Oh man my religion teachers were all grumpy as shit. I don't know why they were there

Catholic Elementary (2-8) and than All Girl Catholic High School.

Present!

here! went to a k-8th, then catholic hs. my fam isn't religious but my mom sent us there because they're the best schools in our city....neither were crazy strict and in hs we only had to go to mass once a month(which i ditched). wasn't that awful.

Does catechism every Monday night for 5 years count?

Elementary catholic school survivor here

Not exactly, but Pentecostal high school here!

here! grade school and high school!

Here! K-8 then the coed catholic high school. My brother went to the all boys school. I'm not sure how I escaped the all girls one but I did.

Present, pre-K to 12.

None of my schools were hardcore, though.

lol hi

whatup

only 5 years of it, but it was enough

here

ONLY KINDERGARTEN

9 years. K to 8th!

raising my hand rn

Here! I went from K-18.

Didn't board, was a day student.

heyyy

here. but I really liked. but I feel catholicism where I live is way more easy-going than in the US.

6 years of living hell
holla

I went to a Catholic school for Kindergarten and first grade and attended Sunday school up until I started high school.

Lol here. But I liked it.

I loved it, tbh. Most Catholics around here are "Cafeteria Catholics," so the whole repressed Catholic stereotype is pretty foreign to me.

5th-8th

I went to catholic school for 8th grade only. It wasn't so bad BUT THE MASSES KILLED ME.

hay, k-12.
tbh the only thing I hated was the extremely strict dress code

not catholic but forced for three years at a born again christian school for my early schooling :/

Present.

K-7th grade. Then it was two years of christian school.


It was good education but a terrible place

Me!! From kindergarten to high school in an all-girls school, one of the best in our country. College in the best, private, and not coincidentally Catholic university, too. It's strange to me that my med school now is non-denominational.

meep

kindergarten through 12th grade and in a jesuit university right now

Hola bitches!

all my life and I went to a sacred heart school for the last seven.

I got out during elementary school. My parents got cheap, praise Jesus.

hello

Here! K - 8. I'm a lesbian now. OOPS.

Still loved it, wouldn't change a thang.

yo

Hi, but it wasn´t bad at all. The nuns were cool.

i only had to go to a religion class once a week for an hour
thankfully i was enrolled in public school

Check

I was in Catholic school from pre-K to grade 12 and made it out alive.

I went to 3 grammar schools, all of which were all awful in different ways - although the 3rd one was by far the worst because it was crazy strict and the teachers/administration were borderline abusive. The all-girls Catholic high school I went to was a MUCH better experience, though. it was more like a public school with religion classes and uniforms tbqh. the only religious problems I had with that place was one religion teacher (a nun) who would give me C's because I was agnostic and the vice-principal (also a nun) who was a homophobe and went on a lesbian witch hunt during my senior year.

my dad went to catholic school k-12. all of his siblings went to public school. i still don't really know why. he's not super religious or anything. in fact he's probably the least religious of his siblings.

Catholic School all the way to university, I suppose.

I'm from a predominately Catholic country, though, so that's just the way it is. 90% of the schools (maybe less now, tbf) are Catholic in name, at least.

Interesting story tho: My maths teacher was a nun, and she was (still is) wonderful. Was living 'in the community' with another nun for years and... just after I left secondary school, those two ladies left the convent and came out as a couple. The convent, afaik, was totally supportive: they're still in the school, working, and they're still in the same house that the convent owns. Just not 'Sister' anymore.

So, yeah, Catholicism is a bit pick-and-choosey here these days. Peeps here have been ignoring the crazy stuff for years- even more now that all the abuse stories have been told. It's like, why would I listen to *you*?

6 months of 6th grade. I wasn't and still am not Catholic but was being bullied at public school to the point that switching schools seemed like the best option. It was a fascinating cross-cultural experience for this raised-Protestant-ish girl.

Pre-K-12 and I'm in a Franciscan college.

The only benefit I've found to it was that I got a better education in high school. Otherwise it might have made my fear of nuns and convents turn into a fear of religions.

Also, I went to the other Sacred Heart. But every time I mention it to a professor they think I went to the one Lady Gaga graduated from, haha.

I loved my Catholic School years!

ME and i'm transferring to a catholic college too

kindergarden till high school it wasn't that bad at all.

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Pre-K to Senior in a Catholic college. Not even Catholic.. WTF

Here I am! It had nuns and everything. It thaught me that I hate organized religions.

here! atheist now

present

here. i loved it.

We still had catechism in public school when I was in elementary school, a few times a week, since Canada doesn't have separation of Church and State - most public schools were basically catholic schools for a long time in Quebec, they even used to have nuns.

I went to a Catholic university and I loved it tbh. Maybe it's because it's on the east coast, but I never felt bombarded my religion there (well except the time pro-lifers would put hundreds of blue & pink flags representing aborted fetusz or the time they had a poster with mlk, and an aborted bb, with the slogan. I ONCE HAD A DREAM TOO or some shit like that.)

But other than that, the college was fairly liberal student body. We had athiest professors, LGBT faculty, etc. Plus it was a small class size. IDK maybe I got lucky with the people I surrronded myself with too.

All girls school my whole life!!It's weird though for me to call it a Catholic school because like 95% of schools in my country are Catholic/run by the Church, so they're never referred to as "Catholic schools" just school to us.

I actually went to a Jesuit university and loved it. I majored in sociology though...the politics department was full of old white conservative dudes so I dropped that major like a sack of bricks. Our professors were badasses and we had an entire department for Peace and Justice. My adviser (she's Latina/indigenous) gets arrested every year protesting Denver's Columbus Day parade.

Sadly, the school wouldn't let me start any sort of pro-choice/sexual health group but they naturally let there be an anti-abortion group on campus. I tore down their fliers whenever I could.

I went to grades 1-5 in a 1-8 school. Thankfully one of the upper grade teachers did not do well at teaching my older sister so I got to go to public middle school.

yo

Right here

Here

here!

Grandma taught me how to hold a cigarette so the nuns wouldn't see the smoke.

here

Me, now an atheist. My Catholic school was fucking awful, though.

catholic all girls convent! PRESENT!

K-6th, then a high school for 9th and like a month of 10th. Fun fact: at the elementary school, our skirts were the same as Rory's in Gilmore Girls (until my school changed the uniform).

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alive and well! non-practicing, and thinking of becoming episcopalian. they seem to be a bit more "modern" than the mainstream catholicism.

pre-school to high school. the last 8 years in an all-girls school. I'm actually not that bad. :P

Catholic and All-girls! I actually LOVED going to an all-girls' school.

Right here!

I freaking LOVED Catholic school because my friends were so Amazing. We've been friends since 5th grade even though they've all said F-U to the religion we are thankful it brought us together.

Grades 1-12, here.

4-6.
and only because it was the closest private school to where we lived.

PreK-11th! Overall, I'm glad I went, even if my high school (Katie's, actually) was "Mean Girls" personified and they basically wanted me out of there because I was too poor. It taught me how to study and not completely slack off.

k-12

I had a Muslim friend that went to a Christian school for many years. Her parents sent her there because it was a private school that was close by.

I can't imagine going to a religious-affiliated school at all, it seems so weird to me. public school, holla

it's like other schools but you waste so much time talking to the big man upstairs when you could be actually learning something

yawn fest

my dad only sent my brother and I to a few catholic elem schools cause they were close heh heh

most of the kids at my last Catholic school weren't Catholic, and they weren't required to attend first Friday Mass or cathechism lessons, they only had to attend morning assembly where everyone said a few prayers.

My bff (who isn't Christian) told me she liked it, the nuns never pressured any non-Christian kids into anything and she liked the rituals and stuff, when she got to see them - all the kids had access to a church attached to the school.

To be fair, the religion didn't impact on your studies in the way that Scientology does on their students. For instance, we still had to study evolution, did sciences, experiences on guinea pigs and so on according to the school curriculum. All my schools had feeder grades (from brightest to slowest), and the students who were in the slower grades got intensive support. For instance, this girl who got transferred to the eighth grade just couldn't read or spell or do Math (we were in the West Indies, and she came from a school in the UK), so she was placed in 8A (slowest of the slow), and within a school year, she did well enough to be placed into 9D (four academic levels up), due to the support the school gave her.

The only additional 'spiritual' stuff that we had to do would have been Guidance counselling for two class periods a week (a period was thirty minutes long, for me), and we covered other religions as well as the Catholic one. We also argued ethics and it wasn't bible based per se. If you wanted to do advanced studies (like, you had students who came to the school and wanted to be Catholics), they had to stay behind if they wanted lessons for confirmation.

Catholic schools aren't a cult, and the reason why they tend to be well regarded is because of their strict discipline (from uniform, deportment, to even manner at lunch times, as well as doing well academically). They don't discriminate against other religions, but they do appreciate if you don't bad mouth theirs (me and my siblings - all of us went to Catholic schools - from all girls, to all boys and coed).

Edited at 2012-07-14 05:46 pm (UTC)

i did that too and loved it... but then i went to really liberal catholic schools that were only catholic in name.

I'm not Catholic and I was in Catholic school until high school, wish I had continued in Catholic school quite frankly as it was much more structured than public school. At the time though I remember being happy that I wouldn't have to wear a uniform anymore.

depends really
i had one friend in particular and she was ambivalent for the most part but she really hated attending masses
but i had other friends that didn't mind at all and even joined the dance group that danced during liturgies or the choir

this is me... it wasn't so bad, i just ignored/didn't notice the religious stuff tbh...

It can be scary to hear the entire school praying at the same time while standing in formation.

A lot of people at the catholic schools I attended weren't catholic

My family switched to episcopalian when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade. It wasn't really a big deal. Just did all the normal stuff but didn't participate in the sacraments. Had to do religion classes and go to church. I ended up being atheist on my own and my mom was liberal so we never believed that shit about no birth control and most of the Jesus stuff we learned was about his teachings to love everyone...which I think that's a good principle to live by anyway so not really that big of a deal.

a couple of teachers gave me shit for not even being spiritual and theology classes/mass were all boring as hell, but past all of that it was only relatively shitty.

nothing special really. my mum was a lutheran minister and still sent us to catholic school, just because it was the best (affordable) school around. i felt a little weird at mass but it was okay!

The Lutheran High School in my city has a student body that is 30% Catholic and only 5% actually Lutheran...it does happen.

ikr?

lol @ you assuming Suri has a soul

I pretty much agree, but Convent is supposed to be a pretty good school, iirc, and I guess putting her into a Catholic school further reinforces the "see how NOT Scientologist she's going to be?" thing.

I do think that I got a great education at my catholic high school, much better than I would have gotten at my town's public high school. but yeah, the dogmatic shit is hard to stomach if you're not a believer, and you do have to deal with stuff like wearing uniforms and always being clean shaven and yada yada.

I don't know if I'd enroll my kids in Catholic school, but I'd definitely enroll them in private school. It's not that I think it's safer or better in regards to the kids. I went to private school, I know we're probably worse than most public school kids cause we have a lot more crap at our disposal and parents who don't care or don't have the time to notice. However, I really loved having much smaller classes. I got to know my teachers on a much different level and they had a great impact on me.

I don't think I would. My school was okay, but my experience was pretty negative. A handful of kids bullied me (I came home bruised and bleeding a couple of times) and none of my teachers ever did anything about it, because the 11th commandment is apparently "Thou must not waste thy smoke break breaking up kid fights. Thou must let them work that shit out themselves."

That and I'm not religious anymore.

I was an altar server and our monsignor was a total douche. He's a bishop in one of the Dakotas now, but he was arrogant and controlling as hell. We were a bunch of 9-13 year old kids for fuck's sake. He was REALLY rude to my little sister one time and she refused to ever altar-serve again.

dying and totally missing out on all of life's wonders is better than being home schooled by Scientology

Being raised by wild dogs would beat Scientological "education" by a country mile

i'd argue they're both insane

lol. idgw ppl are so weird about catholic school. i'm totally biased b/c my experience was catholic school = a really good private school with a religion elective and those were some of the most interesting classes tbh, i actually had a class where we learned about the cult of scientology and lrh...

Agreed. I'm the last person you'd find defending the Catholic Church but at least it's a good school and fuck knows it's better than the creepy cult shit.

Yep. Not a fan of Catholic schools or the Catholic Church, but it's definitely better than Scientology.

Nuns doing Tae Kwon Do? I like it!

Shaolin nuns?

WERK.

I wish my nuns did that at school! Though, one glance from Sister B and that was ENOUGH.

I need to watch this again. It's been too long.