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As one notes here, kids who are not Catholic can be denied attending a local school and thus forced to go outside of the community - as they do not have choice. 

Primary school kids in the town where I grew up didn't have to be Catholic to be sent to designated public schools, and sometimes located farther away by several miles than the nearest ones for maximum inconvenience.  And the Catholic school I went to took in a few non-Catholic kids who were shunned by the public school system, especially the ones from troubled families.