What is a LaSallian education?

fiftyfifty1
Sun, 17 Sep 2023 15:12:22 +0000

Truthfully I don’t think the whole Jesuits/LaSallian distinction matters.

Our family was in the same position as yours was 2 years ago when we were considering schools, and like you I worried what all these distinctions could mean. But having gone through the process, my advice is that it is best to just check out the vibe of each school individually. This is true for schools from just about any Catholic order. I think it depends more on the school itself than any label attached.

Our family is atheist and our S22 is LGBTQ+, so at first we thought we shouldn’t consider Catholic schools at all and only had secular schools on the list. But Fordham LC was a great fit in other ways (location, major, and cost after merit) so we put it on the list after all…with some trepidation. And in the end, Fordham LC is where he landed! He is thriving, and the Catholic affiliation has been a total non-issue. Like someone joked “I doubt I’ve found 2 Catholics to rub together here.” His classmates are everything: atheist, Jewish, secular Buddhist etc. I don’t think any of his professors have been Catholic-- or if they were they never said so. Many of his professors are LGBTQ+. Yes, the core requires a theology class–but it is more like philosophy or history of religion, not at all actually religious.

I have heard that Fordham’s Rose Hill campus is slightly “more Catholic” in the sense that more of the students there come from Catholic families or attended a Catholic high school. But even so, the vibe is not super Catholic, in my opinion.