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Post by OldFred on Jun 23, 2008 18:40:25 GMT -5
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Post by John S. Damm on Jul 1, 2008 11:12:55 GMT -5
It wouldn't let me go to the link but I vote Monkees as in old if that was the question! New Monkees = (I have a feeling that my friend OldFred will whack my knuckles with his wood ruler like the nuns did at old St. Joan of Arc in the 1960's for my remark on the New Monkees! ;D )
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Post by JMG on Jul 2, 2008 3:58:19 GMT -5
(I have a feeling that my friend OldFred will whack my knuckles with his wood ruler like the nuns did at old St. Joan of Arc in the 1960's for my remark on the New Monkees! ;D ) You had it dead easy at your school, JSD. At St. Peter's the nuns used to whack our knuckles with those old three cornered triangle shaped solid wooden rulers and asked us how we liked it afterwards. A bunch of tough old birds. We used to call them penguins. I still have scars on my knuckles from these...ahhh...incidents or shall we call them interrogations? Anyhow, I feel they toughened me up for life in the real world.
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Post by Cosmos on Jul 2, 2008 10:23:43 GMT -5
So that's at least three of us then. Perhaps we should use our new chat room to get together once a week for a support-group session for all of us who survived Catholic School ! ;D
P.S. I think Sister Xavier might have you both beat. She survived Hitler's Germany just so she could get to us in third grade. Talk about tough!
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Post by JMG on Jul 2, 2008 11:40:49 GMT -5
So that's at least three of us then. Perhaps we should use our new chat room to get together once a week for a support-group session for all of us who survived Catholic School ! ;D P.S. I think Sister Xavier might have you both beat. She survived Hitler's Germany just so she could get to us in third grade. Talk about tough! Your Sister Xavier sounds an awful lot like a nun we had at St. Peter's, Sister Robert Marie. She was only about 5 foot 3 inches tall but at least a yard wide with a stocky build. When she tore into your ass you wished you were someplace else, that's for sure. As kids we were literally afraid of her.
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Post by Cosmos on Jul 2, 2008 13:25:21 GMT -5
LOL! By your description JMG, these two "Sisters" must have been sisters. Same build, but Sister Xavier sported those nifty John Lennon glasses. There's nothing that'll make a kid sit up like a terse reprimand from a nun with a German accent backing it up.
Our School was so broke, they only had grades 3rd to 8th at the time, and you had to go through her first if you were going to stay...many did not. Tough old bird, indeed.
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Post by JMG on Jul 2, 2008 20:42:04 GMT -5
Yes Cosmos, I'd say we shared similar experiences though at different schools. Sister Robert Marie didn't have a German accent but she did wear those wire frame glasses you talked about. It's almost like the Catholic church somehow manufactured these nuns to keep the kids on the straight and narrow path.
Old St. Peters grade school is still there but it's my understanding that there just aren't that many, if any, nuns anymore to teach so the teachers mostly come from the general population.
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Post by Cosmos on Jul 2, 2008 23:47:14 GMT -5
Yeah...small world isn't it? When I began at St. Thomas Moore there were 5 nuns vs. 4 lay teachers. There were only two Sisters left by the time I completed the eighth grade. I think the Dominicans have had an even harder time replenishing their ranks than the Jesuits, over the past few decades. Sorry to "steal" your thread there, Old Fred, but ANYTHING can happen if your initial link doesn't work !
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Post by JMG on Jul 3, 2008 1:10:47 GMT -5
By the time I completed eighth grade at St. Peters, as many of the older nuns entered retirement they were being replaced by lay teachers. I imagine it's quite a different world there today.
Sorry OldFred, we didn't mean to hijack your thread, sometimes conversations just take a natural course on their own.
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Post by ChuckE on Jul 3, 2008 12:09:55 GMT -5
Not *all* nun teachers are horrible... my 5th grade teacher, a nun, also taught me how to play guitar. (I think she was mortified when I later built on that foundational knowledge by teaching myself KISS songs... *laugh* ) The nun teachers YOU guys are describing sound worse than Your Auntie Grizelda! (in a feeble attempt to get this back on topic) NP: Aimee Mann & Michael Penn, "Two Of Us," I Am Sam (soundtrack)
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Post by Cosmos on Jul 3, 2008 12:54:20 GMT -5
Now, now ChuckE...we were merely discussing one aspect of the educational picture. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down, I just said it as a fact, which was taken wrong and now it's all this! Though I can't speak for JSD or JMG, I found it to be a fine way to get educated, both in grade-school & high- school. Both the Dominicans & the Jesuits had more than their share of top notch teachers, and the majority of the lay teachers that I experienced seemed to have a bit more freedom than in the public system. We had one guy that taught a religion class my freshman year, and his "approach" was from the atheistic point of view. (I assume that this concept was o.k.'d by the higher powers in charge of curriculum) A pretty gutsy and shocking class for most of us, as we had never been properly "confronted" with that viewpoint, for the most part. Surely not something most people would expect to find in a Catholic School setting, but it sure made us think out of the box. To me, that is what a proper education SHOULD teach a kid.
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