Catholic Primary Schools

[janet88]

smurf:

Hi sunset dae,


Do u stay near CHS? If u dun, forget about being a PV, dun waste time.

And even if u stay near CHS, being a PV doesn't guarantee you a seat either. Sigh...we Catholics dun even dare to go for the balloting.

With the huge increase of PRs and conversion of some becoming Singaporeans, popular schools now are even 'hotter'. Staying within 1km requires balloting...Phase 2B for Catholics/PVs also need balloting. Really :nailbite:

[Gecko]

janet_lee88:

smurf:

Hi sunset dae,


Do u stay near CHS? If u dun, forget about being a PV, dun waste time.

And even if u stay near CHS, being a PV doesn't guarantee you a seat either. Sigh...we Catholics dun even dare to go for the balloting.

With the huge increase of PRs and conversion of some becoming Singaporeans, popular schools now are even 'hotter'. Staying within 1km requires balloting...Phase 2B for Catholics/PVs also need balloting. Really :nailbite:

To be honest, most Catholic Mission schools appear to be losing their \"mission\" ... or at least, seem to redefine them

Gecko

[citygirl]

Gecko:

To be honest, most Catholic Mission schools appear to be losing their \"mission\" ... or at least, seem to redefine them

Gecko

I suppose you could look at it another way - Catholic schools need to take in non-Catholics to do their duty of evangelising.

But I agree in some part - Catholic schools nowadays are not the same as the ones in the past that were run by men and women from religious orders.

And I do get the impression that some Catholic schools are Catholic in name only.

[smurf]

I dun think catholic schools are 'losing' their mission. Coz from what I understand, their initial mission was to open catholic schools for children from under privilege homes. Regardless whether the child is catholic or not.


Of coz, from a catholic's point of view, I hope that they can give more privilege to Catholics so that they can provide more religious teachings which cannot be taught in normal sch.


:celebrate:

[24hr-mum]

if catholic schools dont do catholic teaching, then there is no evangelism to non-catholic students. except for bible time, i m not sure what kind of catholic activities they have

[smurf]

They do have catechism class for catholic students, and if you are not Catholics, you do not have to participate in the class.

[janet88]

citygirl:

Gecko:

To be honest, most Catholic Mission schools appear to be losing their \"mission\" ... or at least, seem to redefine them

Gecko

I suppose you could look at it another way - Catholic schools need to take in non-Catholics to do their duty of evangelising.

But I agree in some part - Catholic schools nowadays are not the same as the ones in the past that were run by men and women from religious orders.

And I do get the impression that some Catholic schools are Catholic in name only.

Catholic schools today are not run by men and women from religious orders...in fact convent school (pri) then was not run by a nun but the secondary school was.
Now, only Catholic students have to go for catholic classes but non-Catholics have moral and ethics class instead. Mass is not compulsory for everyone too...although I find it meaningful.

[24hr-mum]

since the principal may not even be a catholic, as a catholic i sometimes wonder what benefit is there in sending the child to catholic sch. i m not sure how often is the mass, and though got bible class, i still hv to send the chlid to church catechism…and if the sch is so academically focused eg CHS, i cant see much ‘catholicism’ there.

[janet88]

24hr-mum:

since the principal may not even be a catholic, as a catholic i sometimes wonder what benefit is there in sending the child to catholic sch. i m not sure how often is the mass, and though got bible class, i still hv to send the chlid to church catechism......and if the sch is so academically focused eg CHS, i cant see much 'catholicism' there.

Principal of daughter's school is Catholic. We are not Catholic, so daughter attends Ethics class every Friday while Catholics have Catechism.

Yes, CHS is very academically focused.

[24hr-mum]

hi janet,

whc sch is that? chij toa payoh? marymt convent? i think st nick principal isnt catholic