# Catholic catechism for public school students

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**Created:** [November 22, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catholic-catechism-for-public-school-students/843822 "2019-11-22T16:48:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 24, 2019, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catholic-catechism-for-public-school-students/843822/21 "2019-11-24T16:34:08Z")

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> [@digs](#):
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> No one else thinks that’s creepy… and really arrogant of the church? “It’s okay that you’re missing science or math classes; what we tell you is so much more important!”

where did OP say this was happening?

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**Post date:** [November 24, 2019, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catholic-catechism-for-public-school-students/843822/22 "2019-11-24T17:16:49Z")

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There’s a really fun and funny book about this called _The Wednesday Wars_ by Gary Schmidt that I recommend to anyone interested in it. You need some massive suspension of disbelief about coincidences, but you will laugh.

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**Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catholic-catechism-for-public-school-students/843822/23 "2025-05-16T09:24:25Z")

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When I was in elementary school in New Lothop, Michigan in about 1980 I remember at some point on some days catholic students went to catechism and protestants (myself included) went to something else where they talked to us about Jesus.

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**Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catholic-catechism-for-public-school-students/843822/24 "2025-05-16T11:51:11Z")

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The “high Anglicans” in our school would get time off to attend 11 am services on weekdays such as Ash Wednesday and All Saints’ Day.

Jewish students would get a number of days off during the year. Hebrew school was always outside of school hours.

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**Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catholic-catechism-for-public-school-students/843822/25 "2025-05-17T02:11:34Z")

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I think the way it’s done now across the board for Catholics is that the classes are either after school or in the evenings.

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**Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catholic-catechism-for-public-school-students/843822/26 "2025-05-17T02:29:17Z")

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We didn’t have a “No Wednesday activities whatsoever” rule growing up in the 1970s, but activities and homework were minimized on that day. I’m actually OK with that; what’s wrong with an evening off if you’re a kid?

I’m guessing that the same rule applies to Mondays in heavily Mormon areas.

ETA: One wonders what day zombies might get off for “training.”

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