I never understood the big deal about a school ring. (And yes, I went to Catholic high school, and yes we had this big evening ceremony and nonsense about the rings. I didn’t want and didn’t get a ring so I didn’t go.)

It’s just a school ring, you can buy them off Jostens' web site. It's just not a big deal.

I mean that sucks but it's a private catholic school with no oversight and it's own rules.

I mean at this point why anyone would send their kid to a catholic school is beyond me.

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There are some that are fairly liberal. More time to teach basics instead of the interruption in the school schedule/admin to cover things that student won’t remember anyway.

Many Protestants send their kids there — not for the religion, but usually the behavior there a bit more tolerable. If a kid acts up too much, he’s out. Whereas in public school, the behaved kids suffer because. the nasty, troubled kids stay because they don’t know what to do with them. Simple really. YMMV

The school can’t or won’t comment on what happened, given she’s a child and all, so we don’t really know. The school would not just drop a top-tier student in the middle of the year over some perceived slight.

>By the end of an hour, she was told she didn’t belong at a Catholic school and that “I would be a perfect fit for a public school like Patapsco High School,” the Baltimore County teen recalled.

I mean, harsh, but she was there on a scholarship per the article and they are a private religious school, so technically correct if you dont want to follow their beliefs/rules.

I take it there may have been more behind the story with the parents and past interactions.

Real shame the girl has to suffer in any way for this, but I think much of the blame lies with the parents. That said, not a fan of religious schools myself anyway despite their number in Baltimore.

It's not no oversight. It's archdiocesan oversight, and they'd never turn a blind eye to important things like class rings.

Is this your first run in with Catholic schools? Asking as someone who went to Catholic school from pre-K through college.

The article said that the catholic highschool specifically is not an archdiocesan school. It's independant.

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No, though I know nothing about this school.

Correct, the school is independent of the AoB.

You must be new, here.

A classic case of "didn't read the article" got my ass

People pay money to send kids to private schools to avoid sending them to overcrowded and extremely underfunded public schools in the city. There are only so many choices in an area and more often than not most have religion intertwined.

Can't wait for this pedo cult to go bankrupt. Sounds like the school is losing a promising student over something that isn't even in the catechism. School rings must be blessed????? That ain't in the bible and I'm damn sure the pope never said such nonsense. Principal is a power tripping loser. Hopefully she'll get a better education at BCPS.

I think we will be waiting a loooooong time for that. Catholic Church, pretty rich.

In the current climate, they'll drop students for a single uniform infraction. This is a case of the student spitting in their face, and yes, they absolutely would just drop a student over a perceived slight.

(I was in the Catholic school system from Kindergarten through my senior year in the 80s/90s, and even back then, students would vanish for things that made zero sense.)

Every Catholic school in the state blesses the rings, to my knowledge. There's a whole ceremony and assembly.

...but why is it a requirement to the point that this student was expelled for not doing it?

Is it because the principal and archdiocese just make shit up?

And people wonder why enrollment is down and schools are closing. Curley recently shifted their policy on raffle tickets to instead of if you sell an average of 75 bucks per student extra days off to if you don’t sell that yourself you have to pay the difference. They’re just blatantly admitting they’re marketing schemes wrapped up as a fiefdom of a school.

Wow. My daughter went to one for a few years and she was a huge pain in their ass, and I’m amazed that they didn’t kick her out many times over. We paid full price, though…

Taking my downvotes and learning!

My Catholic high school was pretty liberal. We also had some Jewish people in our class.

Maybe don't comment at all then?

My Catholic school was fairly liberal as well. We had kids of all faiths (Jewish, Muslim, flavors of protestant) and you could generally opt out of most of the religious stuff with a valid reason. You had to take religion classes but they weren't really even Catholic - it was stuff like a critical reading of the bible, philosophy, comparative religions etc.

Same - we had world religion too. And it's easy saying it from this side, but if you had to sit through masses not of your faith, I imagine that would build patience, which is a virtue! (no pun intended)

"Tradition" is the usual response for things like this.

Yeah, I suspect the scholarship played into this. Regardless it's a shit call to make.

If that really is the call. Maybe she rejected the advances of the wrong gym teacher, with the lack of transparency and one side of the story we’ll probably never know, but there’s got to be more to it than this. Even if they just wanted to take her scholarship money and give it to someone else.

I went to Catholic High, the school in question, and there is a rich history of shitty administrators there. This same president was under fire a couple years ago for the blatant racism happening to non-white students over the decades. The whole admin tried sweeping it under the rug. They acted like they were taking it seriously by assembling a task force of alumnae, and then she wouldn't implement any of the suggestions that were presented to the administration. Nothing was done to address the concerns from previous and current students. It doesn't surprise me in the least that this expelled student who is a "perfect fit for public school" is a minority. This isn't even a Catholicism problem, but more of a Catholic High problem.

I went to public school in TN, but my husband went to St. Joe’s (or maybe y’all call it Mount St Joe’s, I don’t know). I had never met anyone Catholic before meeting his family. He was Catholic but says he’s atheist now because of St. Joe’s. Not sure exactly what happened but it really soured his view on the church.

Made out of Chinese tin from melted down Baijiu cans.

Maybe. Maybe her parents refused to participate in every PTA function. Maybe she missed an assembly or sport event outside of school hours. You're right, we'll never really know.

Yup, I went to Calvert Hall, and it was exactly the same. There was a Jewish kid in my grade, and plenty of those of protestant sects. If you didn't want communion, you just didn't stand up and go. Christianity courses were not Catholic-centric but Christianity centric. Ffs, our morning prayer ended with a prayer to St. John Baptist de La Salle, bunch of protestants specifically don't pray to Saints, so they didn't say it. No one cared. Idk wtf is up this school's ass, but good luck keeping enrollment up with that kind of mentality.

Thanks for the insight. It’s important context that there’s a history there.

Because religion aside they’re still better schools on many metrics than anything the government provides. My catholic school approached most of the religion courses as history and exposure. We had mass a few times a year but even as firm atheist now I’d still be inclined to send my kids there or somewhere similar.

I mean, it IS Catholic. They've always been a bit weird.

The only thing bad at St' Joe's was the lack of girls and the amount of detention(JUG) I racked up. Went to Woodlawn before that. They had girls but many more other problems.

Stop sending your kids to religious schools if you don't follow their religion. How hard is that?

Yeah like.

They had a history of it aaaaages ago. This doesn't surprise me (and is one HUGE reason I chose a different school despite being a legacy).

Incredibly pedantic but:

Baijiu is not sold in cans in China, it’s sold in glass or porcelain bottles.

I was trying to Google what cheap Chinese liquor comes in cans but I gave up since I couldn’t figure it out. Submitted that comment with a Chinese liquor and hoped the message would carry.

Tell me what the ratchet drunks of China do be drinking out of cans? For future zingers. Please and thanks.

Why send your kid to a school with beliefs differing from your own? Private school is a choice and you are well aware of the values and traditions

I was kicked out of seton keough for being raped by a 26 year old when I was 14. They said I had too many problems for them. I hated that school anyway

But u are missing out on a +5 DEF against unholy attacks.