In the UK faith schools are largely renowned for having muuuuch better results, tbh particularly for STEM subjects which is where it a mainstream school falls short, it tends to fall short there? I have no doubt it’s likely self selecting as the student body is more closely aligned to a grammar or private as there are so many hoops to jump through to get in, plus the reputation attracts non Catholics pulling fast ones to get their kid into a better school. I’ve never heard a faith school in the UK described how you are though, if you don’t mind me asking what country is this?
I only went to a Catholic primary but despite growing up in a diverse area didn’t know there was anything other than Christians & Jews up until 11, and was absolutely terrified when I got to a normal secondary and people were discussing not believing in anything at all (or worse the goths in the older years). Our history lessons skewed quite... local? Like a lot of Victorian & war stuff cos the area was hit in the blitz and a lot of us lived in post war council houses tbh so it was nice. We even had evacuee children (obvs they were now really old) come in and we had a “picnic” with them where we were on their tables and could ask them anything, that was really special tbh - altho looking back probs quite bad they’re having to relive their trauma with kids asking them dumbshit questions like did you miss ur mum tho
But absolutely nothing on any other country apart from the Egyptians, and I wonder if that’s only cos of a school trip to the British Museum? Weirdly nothing on the ~international~ reach of Catholicism or even Ireland where a lot of us were from / only round the corner really?!
Tbh for reference my impending daughter will be most likely to go through a Catholic education so by no means poo pooing it, just am aware going into it that there will have to be a lot of additional knowledge it’s our responsibility as parents to teach her outside of school hours? But the same could be said for any school really, especially for social issues