A Diverse Education

I find it funny when I hear or read the news that some teacher or a school district is being taken to court for saying things that don’t fit the mould of the modern enlightened education model. The courts would have a field day with the things that I’ve seen during my education.

I went to Catholic School until the eighth-grade. We were taught by nuns and these ladies were crazy and I'm not even taking into consideration their sadistic tendencies. Never once during our classes in religion was the Bible ever used or mentioned. I never saw my first Bible until I was in high school and all these churches started having Coffeehouses on Friday nights. It seems the play Jesus Christ Superstar made churches realize there was money in going out to the pop culture. No book was ever used for religion classes when I was growing up.

One nun was really involved in the numbers racket. She’d send her bets home with one of the students whose father was a bookie. When she won she'd buy sodas for the class.

We had several nuns who were racists and often fed us misinformation. It was mostly against Blacks and Asians, but they often slurred Italians as well. I had friends in class who were of Italian heritage and I could see this really hurt them. I once got on one nun's shit list because after she had a long rant about Italians, I asked her, "Isn't the Pope Italian?" It was Paul the VI and he was Italian. She turned beet red and threw me out of class and told me to go home. It was a nice day, I gladly accepted her discipline. Note, she made no phone call to my parents, nor did she give me a note to take home. I was just released on my own recognizance and allowed to wander the streets at will.

There was one nun who insisted on teaching us how to read and write Russian foregoing all other lessons for months. We never got it. We never wanted to get it.

We had another nun who instead of teaching us Geography would give us lessons and read us books about Atlantis.

There was another nun who made us all go out and buy the book, “Edgar Cayce, The Sleeping Prophet”. We spent most of the year studying Cayce and Nostradamus.

I feel good about having that sort of diverse education. We still learned all the other stuff before the year was over. How many 6th graders do you know who read Edgar Cayce? There were about twenty of us. It would be totally frowned upon in schools these days. That sort of material is even out there for home schoolers.