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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand the anger against the jesuits either.  wow.  [/quote]

Google up the founding facts of the Jesuits. They were founded to educate the wealthy  because no orders at that time were so designated (and the order of nuns known as the Madames of the Sacred Heart were founded to do the same). Both still have that ethos, but mix it up with the poor at all times.
That said: the Jesuits are a remarkable group of educators who have not veered thrpough the centuries from their dedication to the system called the Ratio Studiorum (Google that too) and have high schools and universities across the country.
A case in point that addresses the above  quote --and others ---very specifically follows:

Take Detroit, Michigan. One of the premier private schools for boys there is the University of Detroit High School where the boys always quipped they had first to say their prayers at night and then review their Latin and their Greek.
Not unuusal at all for a Jesuit high school teacher to have a doctorate.
Back to Detroit.
As the wealthier families moved out of Detroit and it became substantially black, these families begged for decades to have the Jesuits move their school out to a dropdead beautiful retreat called Manresa which is directly along  the great Cranbrook Campus )schools and art academy and science institute) since the jesuits owned the acres of Manresa.
The Jesuits steadfastly refused. They said simply that those who wanted to attend UofD as the hugh school is called could come into Detroit to school from toney suburbs. To this day, they maintain the same position.
The University of Detroit with its engineering,law,dental schools simply said the same thing when they were asked to follow their wealthier students. They said also that they were Detroit, period and were going no place.
Gotta admire this gang! If they live the high life, it assuredly has never appeared so to anyone in Detroit. The university has for decades been out among the neighborhoods organizing, helping, educating--same for the High School. The  HS boys are in the Detroit projects regularly working for the underprivileged.
Another Jesuit High School for boys is Loyola (google this one up)--all black, superb educations. Elaine Stritch's sister was active here assisting here with a number of my friends.
The "Jebbies"s they are called just stood in place for Detroit when many hightailed it out to greener pastures.[/quote]

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