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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband attended an elite Catholic boys school in the Northeast. Predominantly but not exclusively white. TBH I find interest in whether these institutions are racially representative kind of bizarre--they are not representative in any other way; why would this one be different?

The school my husband attended abuts a monastery where the Church rotated known pedophiles for many decades. All of that is on the books of the criminal justice system in the state at this point. There were (and are) monks living there about whom the students were advised, by teachers, "don't be near him alone."

We get the alumni magazine, which of course does not address any of this despite it all being in the news with some regularity. It is striking to read through. Probably a third of recent graduates attend Catholic institutions of higher education--fine if it is your bag, some of them are great. Not one single admission to a service academy, no one joined the military, no one entered a police or fire academy, no one attended a community college, less than a handful of regional public institutions.

The net impression is that it's a sheltered environment in which kids are kept for either an exclusively UMC/UC trajectory or for total destruction via the experience of child sexual abuse. Sometimes both.

This would not be something we would consider under any circumstances.[/quote]

Guess you’ll be avoiding Boy Scouts with 85,000 abuse cases, and public schools with untold numbers hidden behind claims of immunity. [/quote]

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