Posted on 06/06/2011 3:41:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Amen to that. (St. John the Baptist School, Brunswick, ME; Class of 1968)
We’re watching our country be destroyed before our eyes.
The collection of quotes on your profile page says it all.
They gave us warnings, wisdom, guidance, examples of courage and a roadmap.
Those great men were right.
A chicago update basically taken from the “Second City Blog” it seems the beaches will be closed today no reason given, the top cop types are out pleading with the “reverends” for peace and the media blackout on the mobs of “honor students” is beginning to crack. Chicago a nice Democratic enclave.
You are correct. Dept. of Indoctrination, indeed.
In my Boomer grade school classes, it was not unusual for the sister to have over 30 students in a class. Somehow, they did it. And they did it without huge amounts of money spent on resources.
Authority and discipline are cheap to enforce, when allowed, as they were then. Rulers must have been cheap, too.
Rulers? Were you a naughty boy? I was a well-behaved little girl whose mother would have given her what-for if I had misbehaved in school. You and I can remember the days when children were expected to be respectful of authority figures and adults in general. Today, coming across a child with good manners is such a rare treat.
I had my moments. However, my Dad was a Grand Night in the KOC, and was in tight with the priests. He knew all the details before he arrived home from work, every time; much to my chagrin. Guilty as charged!
Uh-huh! You knew you would get it at school and at home. And you’d better not bad-mouth the sisters or the teachers, right? That’s how it was in my home. My mother would say, “I don’t want to hear it”. Exact quote. She told me after I had reached adulthood that she did not always agree with what the sisters had punished us for, but that there was no way she would say anything against them in our presence.
Sadly, today, even in many Catholic schools, the parents are up in arms if their precious children are scolded for anything or if their lazy kids don’t get good grades that they have not earned.
If the nuns claimed it was true, there was no defense!
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