I graduated from high in 1984, and I still have nightmares if I visit a school for any reason.
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I attended a large Catholic high school in Philadelphia. ( about 3,000 students) I was never afraid of the other students but I was terrified of the nuns.
After lunch, we were “allowed” to use the restrooms. There were always nuns in there ( with their little “crickets” in their hands). I wondered about this when I was kid. Why would they have the nuns in the restroom? I now know why? They were there to protect us from the other students.
Ditto for the gym locker rooms!
One more thing: If a nun or teacher stepped on to a stair, ALL the students cleared the stairs and the nun used the stair **alone**! I now see that this custom had two purposes: 1) the safety of the nun 2) it instilled respect for her in the students.
My experience was different. Nuns, priests, and brothers were all saints and did their best to teach and form us.
I do wonder when the trial lawyers are going to go after the government schools like the did the Catholic Church. Here in California, they have bankrupted the dioceses going all the way back to the 1930’s to find victims and awarding them $1.4 million each. The press, the lawyers, and the courts were eager to destroy the church but never a whisper about taking on the MASSIVE scandal in the govt schools.