There's nothing "modern" about them.
They've always been centers for brainwashing and abuse.

There are a lot of kids in Catholic schools who are not Catholics. Their parents think that they will get a better education and a better chance in life. It is like some kind of networking.

I'm pretty ambivalent about education as a rule. Indoctrination is par for the course, whether the school is secular or sectarian. I value those who are disposed to a broad mind, so the facts can be separated from the bullshit. Faith has nothing to do with facts, so draw your own conclusion. I also believe that to break the rules you'd better be well versed in all of them so pay attention.

As a former Catholic, I've heard all the horror stories of parochial schools. Nevertheless, I was from one of those Catholic families where the full court press wasn't on past a certain point. Yes, I was confirmed in the church. After that, it was up to me to decide what to do with faith. Out of four kids, three of us became decidedly irreligious and the one who accepted faith as their path is the one I am furthest from in the family. And as far as my friends who grew up Catholic, most have decided to ditch their faith with mostly positive outcomes in life.

Many counselors (like me) and psychotherapists will tell you they have "special programs" for recovering Catholics.

I went to catholic schools 1st thru 12th grade. Got an excellent education. Learned a lot about the religion. In high school, we were taught to question(which my Dad supported). My questioning led ultimately to agnosticism. My 6 brothers and sisters also spent most of their pre-college years in parochial schools. None today are religious or particularly spiritual.

Yes . Minus the " modern ". Not a damn modern thing about Catholic or any religious schools
I have absolutely no objection on teaching religions of the world to kids . It will have been a wonderful tool to demonstrate the illusions . Teach them all thou .
Catholic schools are not dictating just religion . They dictating ways of living based of religion. Lovely for the young women to be . The fears , the tears , the lies and the manipulation are horrible to my opinion . And the hate that is generated is enormous . Bliach

I went to a few Catholic schools because they were the best ones in the places where I lived. The discipline and love of reading was instilled in me and I took courses a lot of other schools didn't even have. As a non-catholic, I had very little "religious" activiity other than a bible reading class...my parents mostly did my values training. The only thing I hated was the plaid uniforms...to this day, I hate plaid.

All religion is a form of brainwashing. I wouldn't single out catholic schools, but would agree if it were all religious schools.

LMAO...MODERN? What is YOUR idea of modern?

my kids went to catholic schools and all are atheists. They don't shove religion down your neck llike in the olden days. I even did relief teaching at the school. However I'm from Australia.

No my kids went because local schools sucked big time they do educate well on basics neither are religious

I attended catholic schools for grades 7-12, and then attended a Jesuit university. It was mostly peer-pressure indoctrination and the dissemination of dogma, not so much brainwashing. In fact, the theology and philosophy I learned in college galvanized my atheism. Now some kids take this more seriously than others, but while my folks both attended church regularly, they weren't deeply doctrinaire. Other kids I knew weren't that lucky, and you could call what they went through brainwashing. But I wouldn't call it a blanket truth.

I’ve never been a Catholic but I know one guy who claims to be thankful for his catholic education. He says he was so mentally and emotionally hardened by the nuns that Marine boot camp seemed like a walk in the park.

I spent a year in a Catholic high school, and I didn't experience that. It was just a school ran by Catholics. Other than having sit through a period of "religion", it wasn't any different than a public high school. OK, there was the fat nun math teacher who bought her puppy to class one day and expected me to clean up the mess it made next to my desk.

Like most of the others, I feel you cannot just single out Catholic Schools. All education should be secular in my opinion. Religious studies should be taught along with other philosophies, as a subject and open to debate and discussion, all religions included. Children should never be told what they should think, only how they should use their brains to think for themselves.

Oh Yes. I worked in a catholic school many years ago as Science teacher and they didn't want me to teach evolution. They wanted the students to only accept biblical ideas of origins.

i have never been christian and went to public school. however, i know people who went to catholic school and they all have been abused, physically. one friend told me a nun picked up his desk, with him in it, and tossed it across the room. brainwashing? surely. however, there is, or at least was, physical abuse too.

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I have had no experience with Catholic schools but I am suspect of ANY and ALL theist activities.

Absolutely

Why modern? They have been ancient places of brain washing and abuse.

All religious schools are simply indoctrination factories and breeding grounds of compliance and ignorance.

I never attended one, so I cannot offer an opinion. I have met people who were graduates of catholic schools. They , to a person, blamed their personal shortcomings and character flaws on the nuns and brothers who taught them eight hours a day. Not sure what happened in their lives during the other sixteen. All of them had a good understanding of reading, writing , grammar and mathematiccs.

They are pathogenic. The earlier one is exposed to them, the worse and more permanent the damage. They are organized child abuse mentally, and sometimes physically.

Well, DUH. Not to mention child pedophile rings. Why would anyone want to send their children there..it's almost child abuse.

Always have been. Though, the catholic family of nine down the block always wished they could go to public school, like us