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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You could tell her that you don’t entrust Catholics with your children’s well-being and see how the parents like that…

I’m not serious but it’s baffling to me that parents can feel high and mighty about a choice like that. It may be a superior education in certain ways but there’s a moral price to pay for everyone involved after decades of systematic child abuse[/quote]

No there isn’t. Not any more than there’s a moral price to pay for us as Americans to underwrite the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people through our disastrous foreign policies, anbsurd annd ill advised interventions and failed wars! We stay in this country and try to fix it from the inside out and be proud Americans advocating for our country to live up to its promise the SAME WAY we do as Catholics, staying in our faith and church and fixing it from the inside, following the way of God, not as aiding and abetting the evil crimes of the past but as restoration and rebuilding, to a better day to live up to its promise of greatness and guidance. The catholic education is amazing and vastly superior to public. And we would indeed send our kids to one if we weren’t in such a spectacular public school district where our kids are extremely happy and flourishing (Wootton cluster, MCPS). [/quote]

The "spectacular", "happy and flourishing" Wooton cluster reference is funny to me.  When I was in 8th grade, in gym class outside at Robert Frost, a group of mean girls that I barely knew started taunting me out of boredom.  I called one of them a name and she punched me in the face. The puncher and instigator got suspended.  I moved away a few months later.  5 years later I ran into someone from Wooton and asked her what happened to the bullies.  Here's the punchline. This person told me that the instigator had transferred to Catholic school.  And...I was pretty sure she was Jewish.  So...that made for some interesting sociological speculation.  Back to...the best school depends on the student as well as the school.  I'm permanently bitter about my 1.5 years in MCPS in the Wooton Cluster.  Those years were the low point of my entire education from K-Master's Degree.  I was just not ready to swim with the sharks.[/quote]

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