Different tuition based on religion

[Country Living]

I don't mind he learns a thing or two about other religions.

I commend you for taking your job as a parent seriously enough to nuture your child in all areas of his education.

I haven't seen any reply that whether this fee difference is legal or not. I guess it's ok for them to do it then?

Yes. As Steve said, a lot of the times the Church contributes to the Catholic education of Catholic children which reduces the financial burden on the parents in the parish.

Have you had a face-to-face with the principal and made sure this school will benefit your child? It's pretty easy to think of pre-school as just a higher level of day care. Do you see your child attending this school as an elementary student?

 

[CdwJava]

First, the Roman Catholics don't believe in the 10% tithe. The bible doesn't require it. It's mostly the function of greedy churches that pervert rare pieces of scripture as a mandatory donation to the church itself.

What other "churches" do seems rather irrelevant to this topic. The issue was the Catholic church and the Catholics don't set the recommendation at 10%, only 2.5%.

It's not me. If you want to discuss scripture with me, we can do so in another forum or in private message, but I'll stand by my statements based on scripture or anything else. The word of the almighty one is perverted by most of organized churches.

I did not specify Catholic or any other churches, only the historical and literal translation and meaning of the tithe. If Catholics choose to calculate it another way, they certainly can.

And if you do a search of a number of Catholic organization web sites you will find a vast amount of support for the 10% interpretation. You will also find justifications not to expect, demand, or require the tithe but to give only that which you desire.

So, you can argue that it was the function of "greed" if you wish, and you can even pretend that it is not there or justify a lower number, but it is well established what the tithe represents. I really have no care to debate the issue as it seems you have your mind, so it would be a waste of time to engage in such a theological and historical discussion.

So, if the Catholic Church officially asks for 2.5% for giving, that's fine. They are free to do as they wish, and I am sure there is some reasonable calculations that went into this (assuming it is church-wide - and I cannot find support for that). But, that is not the number supported by Biblical reference.

 

[CdwJava]

When we were in southern California, my children went to Catholic school - including a pre-school. My wife even taught there. There were three ways that I recall we could modify tuition downward: (1) Be a member of the parish, (2) Officer to volunteer time in one or more functions at the school, and, (3) have 2 or more children attending (you got a break for a bulk discount). We managed to get all three discounts and received about a 15% break off of tuition as a result.

 

[ecmst12]

I wouldn't mind my kids learning ABOUT other religions, as in a comparative religion course. I would mind them learning to WORSHIP in a religion other then our own. You might want to check out how strongly the religion is emphasized and how many non-catholic students attend.

 

[justalayman]

I wouldn't mind my kids learning ABOUT other religions, as in a comparative religion course. I would mind them learning to WORSHIP in a religion other then our own. You might want to check out how strongly the religion is emphasized and how many non-catholic students attend.

I think the "learning to worship" comes in CCD (catechism) classes.

 

[stealth2]

My kids went to two different Lutheran daycare/preschools when they were little. We are not Lutheran. When I enrolled them, I was told that they would attend chapel once a week (fine) and occasionally watch Veggie Tales. Apart from that, religion would not enter into the picture. Well... The first time they came home singing "We are soldiers in the Army of the Lord", I raised my eyebrows a tad. When they came home to pat me on the arm with commiseration and say "It's okay, Mommy... Jesus love YOU, too, even if you're not Lutheran and not part of His Army", I went to have a chat with the director. Turned out that they actually were teaching the Lutheran faith to the children. Last day my kids went there.

The second daycare/preschool maintained a separation between the Church and the school. Both of my kids loved it, and I was quite comfortable with them there.

thats usually becuase people that make more have a ton of debt and their money is not their own. Also in the old testimate things were much simpler, you passed cattle under a rod, the financial system these days is not so simple, most of us are indentured servants to the system and just as indentured servants of the old days they had no assets (ie the bank owns your car, house, even your education until you work to pay thoes benifits off) so until you are free of your indentured servitude contract its really not your money. Once you are free of debt and are a self sustaining citizen then your income is your own and you can do with it what you want but until then there are serious consequences for defaulting on your indentured servidude contract. That would be like tithing the banks money just so you can feel better, thats balony. This whole pressuring people to tithe at all costs is a product of taking the bible way out of context and failing to look at all aspects of the bible. I can gaurentee endentured servants were not tithing.

You completely missed my point. Let me be more clear. The POOR tend to be much more giving of what they have than the "rich". Or do you think poor folks have no debt? And I wasn't even thinking of tithing - I was thinking of people helping those in need. People *in need* tend to be more generous (percentage-wise) than those not.

As an example, I recently had an employee lose her husband to cancer. We took up a collection for her/her children to help with expenses. My hourly workers gave more (per person and in proportion to their own incomes) than my salaried employees. The former were all "OMG, that's terrible. This time of year. How can we help?" The latter? "Oh, that's sad. So we're taking a collection... how much are people giving. Because you know... this time of year. Things are expensive. I have to buy blah blah blah..."