Most of this wasn't meant for 64Digits, but hey.

I currently consider myself somewhat trapped in the Catholic education system. I was raised Catholic, went through Catholic elementary school, and somewhere along the line lost the faith. After elementary school the natural thing happened and I was fitted into a Catholic high school, a place where I feel endlessly oppressed. There is no chance that I can openly state many of my opinions, and admitting that I'm an Atheist often leads to unbelievably inane remarks, from staff and students alike. There is no sympathy for the fact that I can't leave (for purely practical reasons, parents, friends); for many it's impossible to conceive why I would want equal representation in a Catholic school. For many it's even impossible to recognize I have the right to stay in the school. This isn't limited to students, but teachers that have asked flat out why I just don't leave. One thing I know for sure, leaving wouldn't solve the greater issue I see in this. Recently I got a good taste of how the Catholic school system deals with criticism.

After handing out anonymously signed articles I wrote along with a friend that protested how the school spent its tax money, my friend (who they mistook to be the author) was quickly told to go to the office. He could not do so at the time due to other obligations, but he did manage to talk to the principal enough to find out that he felt the article was insulting. We didn't stop handing out that article. Two days passed, and I was informed that my friend had received a letter from our chaplain - a written response to our article. The article was entirely religious, calling towards god given rights, and ended on the note that any criticism of Catholic schools was dangerous and destructive. It added that it was the schools duty to discourage "anything secular, humanist, atheistic, or satanic". Not only has the article left me offended, but I feel like there is no sympathy for me here. The students are flooded with apathy, and when told that you are against catholic schools, they are puzzled why.