Reply #9: I spent 12 years in catholic schools

[rurallib]

Wish I could say it was heart-warming. I wanted to go to public school because they had better choices and science was more in depth.
But my father gave me a choice - stay in the catholic school and live at home or leave home and go to the public school. Not much of a choice age 14-17.
Most of my classmates had money. And the cliques were really nasty. Running battles with the religion teachers.
Our principal (priest) is still fighting lawsuits for abusing some of the boys 40 years later.
'Bells of St. Mary's' it wasn't.

This wasn't a large city, but a small midwestern city that is fairly wealthy. I think that sometimes in the larger cities, private schools, catholic schools, can be a haven from the craziness of normal life. We didn't have that here.