@Jax

I had EXACTLY the same situation with my son's education 20 years ago, so my first advice is keep calm and don't panic - you CAN pull this off, and so much of humanity ( 2/3s ?) believes mystical hocus pocus, having your son see one branch of it up close and personal with you there to point out the flaws all the way isn't a bad thing. You'll be teaching him not to take things at face value and question what he's told right from the word go.

And you'll have two or three absolutely delicious memories of things your son came out with along the way - trust me. A couple of my treasures are "Well, I think Jesus was a good bloke, Mum, but the miracles? I don't know about the miracles. They’re silly. What do you think? " and " No! We can't go to Uniting Church mass because you think they sing better songs, Mum! They're not Christians!" I was driving when he came out with that last gem and laughed so hard I had to pull over.

I just noticed the post where you'd written " I can't wait for him to "correct" the nuns lol... ", well, you might be waiting a while. Very few nuns teach because there are very few nuns, fullstop, and the only priest he's likely to come in contact with will be the one who officiates school mass in the church, because there aren't many priests left, either. Catholic school teachers are civilians, not clergy. And they are qualified teachers. The days of sadistic penguins with rulers are long gone. Decades gone.

When i was 9 years old, i was drugged with rupees the Date rape drug and raped for two days by a group of Roman Catholics who also put meth in my food.

This was in a public school as well on a field trip. They had it all planned out. They took me outside of town and drugged me and raped me. They all were doing drugs. I had no idea what sex was and i was paralyzed because of the drugs.

I could not use the restroom for almost two weeks and i still have flashbacks to this very day.

They were having a party and i was the 9 yr old entertainment for the gays at the party.

I was so horrible. You never know what is out there. You think You can trust people, then here comes the gays with their drugs.

They were doing meth and the gays took turns with me for two nights. The Catholic women were laughing at me and making sexual sounds as well During the day I was drugged and could not move a muscle.
I was a nightmare. Just be careful.

God bless You.

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I'm also an alumni of private catholic schools as well as my two kids. One thing about private schooling is that they pride themselves on high rates of college placement and that's where the brainwashing starts to fall apart. My kids figured it out all by themselves in college and I didn't even have to say anything.

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

I support two girls, a cousin and daughter of my girlfriend, who attend a religious school in the Philippines. It's some branch of Christianity that is popular over there. Anyway, the 10 year old has been going to school and saying "There is no God." (I have no idea where she got that from! He he he he .)

The other day we were all talking. My girlfriend takes them to Church on Sundays and I always ask them if they had fun talking to the magic people. So, obviously God came up and my lack of belief. I asked them whether or not they would feed the babies sleeping on the streets in the Philippines instead of letting them sleep in doorways. Being the moral little angels they are, both girls said "Yes." "Then your God is a horrible god. He has the power to feed them and he doesn't." The girls were considering this when mom leaned in with the typical Christian response and whispered in the ear of the 10 year old. She then blurted out. "Their faith is being tested!" She really thought she had an answer there.

I, of course replied with the ever so harsh, "Your God is a monster! He starves babies and makes mothers go without food to test them? How would you feel if your mother decided not to feed you and make you sleep in the doorway to prove your love to her. Your God is a monster."

The older girl is still a believer and I know my girlfriend still goes to church and prays but she is in a real mixed up place where she realizes the Church is a business of greed that just wants to take money from poor people, and the idea that a heaven just might exist.

Anyway, the point in all this is to, #1. be yourself around the kids. There are all sorts of people in the world and the sooner they get that the better. #2. Will you still love your kid even if they are religious? Of course you will... dumb question right? We are not the Christians that turn non-believing children out of our homes. The result of religious education for my significant others appears to be a Girlfriend who is losing her faith, a 13 year old who is a believer but is beginning to have questions, and a 10 year old who loves shocking the adults in her life with new things she learns and who really does not seem to believe.
She is young, anything can happen.

In the end, being religious is not the worst thing in the world that can happen to a son or daughter. They can still be good people and live a happy life. I think the most important thing to remember is that WE ARE NOT THE CHRISTIANS. We do not turn out kids away because they think differently than us. The important thing is to give your kids a good education and aid them as you can while they grow and explore the world around them.