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Freddie

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6. Why I never once considered sending my kids to Catholic school

Reply to Tactical Peek (Original post)

Fri Aug 21, 2020, 06:46 AM

Aug 2020

My husband (a graduate of St. Pius X and Cardinal O’Hara) told me this incident in his class in the late 60s: one nun’s favorite punishment was to smack the kid’s forehead against the blackboard. One time she did it so hard to a kid (not DH) that he passed out. Ambulance was called and the kid taken away. Next day the kid was BACK IN SCHOOL and apparently the parents were perfectly fine with this. Nothing was ever heard of the incident again. Can you imagine if that happened now? And thank god we have gotten a little more enlightened about child abuse.

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"If you ever talk to my son like that again . . . " [View all] Tactical Peek Aug 2020 OP

omg.. "and rip off her habit"! Wow! Cha Aug 2020 #1

Bonnet as in veil, not habit onetexan Aug 2020 #8

They did have a rep back in the day. Cha Aug 2020 #9

No worries. Some nuns wear veils and others don't. Some don't wear a habit at all. onetexan Aug 2020 #17

Tell me about it!!! ananda Aug 2020 #16

My dad did the same when I was in second grade More_Cowbell Aug 2020 #2

lol.. your Dad sounds cool. Cha Aug 2020 #10

I double posted a couple of times myself the last few days...used to be you couldn't...some bugs. Demsrule86 Aug 2020 #13

I've got a double post out there somewhere too. nolabear Aug 2020 #19

This message was self-deleted by its author More_Cowbell Aug 2020 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author More_Cowbell Aug 2020 #4

I'd have loved his Mother. Unlike the "nuns on the bus," those teaching in past decades had quite hlthe2b Aug 2020 #5

Why I never once considered sending my kids to Catholic school Freddie Aug 2020 #6

I have to wonder why they are teachers when they Ilsa Aug 2020 #15

I went to a MFM008 Aug 2020 #7

Same situation in grade school but with a physical part to it mitch96 Aug 2020 #11

Good for your dad! smirkymonkey Aug 2020 #20

In German they have a word for that.. mitch96 Aug 2020 #21

I had a teacher (4th grade) ridicule me for my stuttering problem right in front of the whole... SKKY Aug 2020 #12

I totally lost my shit when Colbert showed that lawn sign! bullwinkle428 Aug 2020 #14

Love the sign! sheshe2 Aug 2020 #18