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Smarmie Doofus

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13. I liked most of the nuns. Even the scary ones worked hard and ....

Reply to Squinch (Reply #12)

Fri Mar 14, 2014, 11:23 PM

Mar 2014

... wouldn't do less than their best. That was the sort of silver lining of that RC strain of puritanism: responsibility was kind of at the center of that ethos.

I haven't shaken it... nor do I want to; but how they would define responsibility APPLIED would be very different than how I define it.

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Teach prospective teachers to pass a test upaloopa Mar 2014 #1

Infinitely better system. I went thru RC schools and am a confirmed secular and agnostic. Smarmie Doofus Mar 2014 #3

I went to RC school as well and they are good at teaching. hrmjustin Mar 2014 #4

That's interesting. My grade schoolteachers, all female, ( nuns ,mostly) I assumed to be.... Smarmie Doofus Mar 2014 #7

I went to RC elementary school in the 80's and 90's. hrmjustin Mar 2014 #9

But they can also boot the kid if the parents or the kid are uncooperative. That's significant. Squinch Mar 2014 #5

Mine suspended them but never expelled them. hrmjustin Mar 2014 #6

Without a doubt. Funny that in the "old days".... Smarmie Doofus Mar 2014 #8

Also, the nuns smacked us around. Squinch Mar 2014 #10

That'll do it. Smarmie Doofus Mar 2014 #11

Some of them were doozies, that's for sure. But I also have to say that some of my best Squinch Mar 2014 #12

I liked most of the nuns. Even the scary ones worked hard and .... Smarmie Doofus Mar 2014 #13

This is such bullshit. I got my teaching licenses in 1985 thru 1987. Smarmie Doofus Mar 2014 #2