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>>A lot of my best friends as a kid went to Catholic schools. Their school stories were an awakening for me because somehow I had an image of nuns as sweet old ladies. Not hardly. They knocked the snot out of students and if you said anything you got it twice as hard. There did not seem to be any correlation between abstinence and kindness.
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>Actually, maybe there is. I think abstinence makes them *mean* . <bg>

You know what they say. You can look at a nun, just don't get in the habit.

My daughters went to a Catholic school in Chicago for 9 years and 6 years, respectively. No nuns, all lay faculty, although some of them were not exactly sweetness and light. My ex wife was raised Catholic and thought it would be good for them. Considering the state of Chicago public schools (other than some sensational magnet schools) she was right.