Posted by hyperfocus on July 24, 2011, at 19:06:40
In reply to Re: Catholic school, posted by Dinah on July 24, 2011, at 17:23:24
Yes she talks about her fellow students in the same breath. A big part of the regret was that the Sisters never intervened in the sadistic torture and humiliation the other girls put her through.
She once told me a story about somebody had typed a letter which, to give you and idea of the content, ended "signed before jumping into bed..." and signed her name and put it in her desk and either told one of the Sisters about it or caused it to be to be found by them.
She was a minority at her school - she had gotten in because she was bright - but the experiences there changed her. A lot of the personality problems she has now started there. If she had been evaluated in her 20s she would certainly have been classified borderline. It must have broken her heart to hear, literally decades after, that I went through pretty much the same thing.
Whatever happened to "Suffer the little children to come to me"? It's more like throw the lambs to the lions and let the strongest survive. Christianity is about compassion and good works and recognizing the humanity in every person. I don't know why Catholic schools are so far far away from these things.
But we did survive. Inspite of her demons I don't believe her beliefs about right and wrong are changed.
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