We will be getting this baby baptised as we did with dd and ds, we are both Catholic and go to Mass every week.
My priest must be very strict as there is no way you would be allowed to baptise if you didn't regularly attend Mass and go to the course you have to do which instructs you how the Catholic Church expect you to raise your child in the faith.
He also won't sign forms of any non-Catholics/lapsed Catholics to agree to let them in the primary schools either. Makes me laugh because before we had this priest and the school were less strict I had one Mum complaining in the playground as the children had to say prayers several times a day and she didn't agree with it!! Duh hello it's a Catholic School!!
Maybe she is in an area like mine where there only is catholic schools *or where I am miles away you have the odd protestant one*. One school accepted my son who is not christened. Rest said no and some where rude. But he will be left out of RE class and assembly. School board says this is down to the schools discretion. Not sure how that works yet and I am told already no one will supervise him so he maybe forced in to religion classes. but I wont christen my children because every one else does so they can fit their child in with the schools, they have a mixed family anyway from both sides of the fence in NI as we call it. We dont have any minorities here in my area, My son will be the first to be left out of RE in the school and I have been called bad mum several times for making him this way. I wish we had some choice here it feels very discriminative. Many just home school their kids if this happens sadly I cant do that at the moment.
No, there are loads of schools in the area. It's known as nappy valley here locally. It just so happens the school had the best ofstead reports, nice small classes, village feel and so was very desirable. It was just funny how she thought it was so odd and didn't agree that the school was so religious, even though it is a Catholic school meant for Catholic children to raise your kids in the faith so if she wasn't religious at all or agree with the amount of religion taught/expressed then maybe a different school would have been better choice for her
ETA: I am shocked that you have been spoken to rudely and made to feel like a bad mum for leaving your boy out of RE. That should be your prerogative especially since you don't have much choice on where he goes to school. I'm sorry you've been made to feel that way, and hope your son gets on well, I'm sure he will.
I get it now, she choose the educational side over religion yet weirdly complained about it and she had a choice. She dosnt know how lucky she is to have that choice. You are expected to convert here in most schools. We are well behind here in times. I do know they are fighting for educated together schools as they have in the south or Ireland. I just dont want to follow the herd and christen my sons because every one does to get them in to a school and be atheist and never practise religion at home. It dosnt seem right at all. I have nothing against any one that does I was raised catholic.
My mil used it as an excuse to get drunk and could hardly walk when she got home... 
