Can thou say “Putz?” Hell, he might actually be right about the “anal retentive, Bible thumping freaks” part, but sure as he has shit in his hair, Robodude don’t know jack about Catholic schools.
Does Robo realize that in several U.S. cities, the majority of Catholic school students are non-Catholics? Non-Catholic parents send their kids there because it is usually the only affordable place for their kids to get a decent education.
I’m a lapsed Catholic atheist, with very little positive to say about the RCC. One thing I will give the Papists credit for, however, is running an excellent, low-cost, values- and discipline-oriented education system.
As for the “religious zombies” crack, ya couldn’t be more wrong. A long-standing joke/truism among us Catholic school survivors is that Catholic education is a sure step towards agnosticism.
I’m the product of 15 years of Catholic education, and I couldn’t be happier with the results. (It was that one year in a Montessori school that really fucked me up. ;)) Sure, I had to sit through theology classes most days, but hell, nothing wrong with learning the belief system of approx. 900,000,000 fellow human beings. Robodude, you obviously could have benefited from some time in a Catholic school. You would have learned not to make knee-jerk, unsupported, and unsupportable claims. As it is, you should just pull up your pants to muffle the words coming out of your ass.
I go to a Catholic school, and I’m not Catholic. And most of the teachers could give a rats ass about religion. The only teachers that put religion ahead of academics are, well, the Religion teachers.
Yeah, I don’t know if Robodude is a dumbshit or not, but that was still a pretty damn stupid thing to say.
By the time I got to Catholic school, we had more regular teachers than nuns-but most of the nuns were pretty kewl.
My first grade teacher, Sister Frances Ramona died recently. I couldn’t make it to the funeral and I really am sad about that. I adored her-she was sooo kewl.
I had one nun tell us about AIDS, and what a prostitute was. When we giggled when she said penis, she just looked at us and said-“What’s so funny? It’s just a word.” (VERY open minded…hmmmmm)
Bible thumpers? I don’t think so. I spent my elementary school years at a Catholic school (it only went up to the 8th grade ), and I got a MUCH better education there than I did in public school.
Perhaps that thumping sound Robodude is hearing is the way one’s ignorance-clogged heart sounds when one’s head is residing in one’s anus.
You all ain’t seen nothing. LOL But you are on the right track. If the courts can foce the Catholic schools to do this or that, then one more link of control has been forged. It would be a black day in this country.
The Catholic Church has a long tradition of promoting the enrichment of knowledge and quality education. Maybe they’re making up for the sins of the medieval era, but consider the monastic orders that struggled to preserve the knowledge of the ancients and record the history of the time. Consider the Jesuits, a liberal order who run many very well regarded schools and colleges in the United States. Ever hear of Loyola University? Georgetown University? Fordham University? All Jesuit institutions.
Now, some of the newly emerging fundamentalist schools might thump their Bibles a bit too hard for my taste, but if parents choose to send their children to such institutions, hey, power to them. Still, I’ve had a lot of experience with Catholic and Lutheran schools, and although God is not kept out of the classroom, they’re hardly closed-minded institutions. I’ll assume the same is true for institutions run by other major Protestant sects.
: Ahh, fuggedaboutit. Lutherans are simply atheists who
: like hymns.
Nope — that would be the Unitarians, Dark Lord.
A visitor to a Unitarian Universalist church sat through the sermon with growing incredulity at the heretical ideas being spouted. After the sermon a UU asked the visitor, “So how did you like it?”
“I can’t believe half the things that minister said!” sputtered the visitor in outrage.
Okay, so maybe the various horror stories I heard, combined with seeing a bumper sticker that said “I don’t need drugs to mess up my mind - I went to Catholic school” might have given me a somewhat distorted view of religious private schools, just as people like Jerry Falwell are giving some people the idea that Cristians are intolerant freaks.
But any school which threatens to expel students for wearing their hair in a non-approved manner must place an unnaturally high value on conformity.
And I stand by my belief that any parents who force their children to go to fundamentalist schools for which my misguided statement actually holds true deserve to be sterilized with a rusty meat hook.
No, no, no, Robodude, you’re doing this all wrong. You’re supposed to get all defensive and sit to your guns regardless of what everyone posts. Read some of JDT’s threads to get the idea.
Nope, just preparing you for the future. Although corporate America is relaxing their standards a bit (e.g. corporate casual dress codes, flexible work hours), they still require a great deal of conformity. I mean, I’d love to wear sweats to work, but alas, I’m not allowed. Even McDonald’s requires you to wear those goofy uniforms (though they have improved tremendously in recent years.)
I went to catholic schools thru 8th grade, and my children are currently enrolled in catholic schools. And I don’t recall a single expulsion from either school for any reason. The local, nationally-recognized boys Jesuit high school suspended a guy once for making out on the baseball field during a dance. (Don’t ask me how I know this…), but that’s the worst I can remember.
But if you want to dye your hair pink, you’re right. Catholic schools aren’t the place to be.
Robo- how long have you been out of school? Or do you not have kids?
Even public schools can suspend or expell students for conduct, dress, or personal hygiene (or lack thereof) that is overly ditracting to others or which impedes the learning process. Yes, public schools.
My husband went to Catholic schools until high school, and feels that he could not have gotten a better education anywhere, with an amazing appreciation for art & literature thrown in for good measure.
It might be best if you don’t throw out opinions here that you have based on a few wild nun-torture stories and a bumper sticker. But props for your revised stand.
), and I got a MUCH better education there than I did in public school.