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Jul. 17th, 2010 09:03 pmOr: a Tale of a Defunct Christian School
There's a lot of wank here, and I'm getting this all from my mom, so everything's second hand. To shorten things up I've decided to focus on one main issue this school had, which you will soon see.
First of all, some background. My parents' church is one of those churches that have a lot of rooms that are ideal classrooms down in the basement. For a while, in fact, there were two private schools using the church, a preschool which is still in existence, and an elementary/jr high that isn't. It is the grade school of which I speak today.
The grade school was run by a lady I'll call Donna (for anyone reading this who actually knows which church I'm talking about I don't mean That Donna, or That One, I mean the Other One. Yeah) Anyways, Donna was apparently well educated, or at least sounded like it, and had a Really Big Ego. So big that when it became obvious that her school and another school were in direct competition with each other she refused to do the logical thing and open talks with them about consolidating schools. Oh, no. HER way was best. Naturally, as a result, both schools went under. But not before the church kicked the grade school out for being totally bankrupt. The Other Donna apparently expected that the church, itself in financial dire straights, would bail them out. You see, she was doing things like hiring her friends and paying them A Lot, when there was no way the school could afford it. Oh, and teaching useless shit like Latin. Anyways, the church finally did the right thing and kicked them out, and the scthool went under. Good riddance to bad rubbish. (I admit I'm biased, Mom volunteered her time with them, asking only for a reference, and she didn't even get a Thank You for putting in 30 hours a week free labor for a year... seriously, what shitty behavior. The only reason she even got the reference is because she went to the pastor. So screw them)
Unfortunately they didn't take their crap with them.
So, the other day Mom announced that That Donna (not The Other Donna) was sick and tired of all the junk left behind (that was taking up room that could be used for other, more useful endeavors, mainly the Food Cupboard which, unlike that school, actually serves the community), and was going to sell off everything the school had left behind. Including, as it turned out, a full set of Latin textbooks.
Latin textbooks. For a Very Small elementary/jr high school that had maybe 100 students. At best.
Aaaaand apparently The Other Donna was totally against teaching stuff that was actually applicable In Real Life like, say, Spanish. Oh no, can't teach Spanish that's too useful. Or something. No, we must teach a FUCKING DEAD LANGUAGE, but teaching one people actually use and which would be useful in the workplace? Heavens no.
I'm sure she would have attracted more students had they taught Spanish. Or French. Or, hell Chinese (they're going to take over the world in the near future, so why not?). But no, The Other Donna had to teach useless shit like Latin. No wonder the school went under.
I couldn't believe it when Mom told me about that the other day. Seriously. Latin. WTF?
There's a lot of wank here, and I'm getting this all from my mom, so everything's second hand. To shorten things up I've decided to focus on one main issue this school had, which you will soon see.
First of all, some background. My parents' church is one of those churches that have a lot of rooms that are ideal classrooms down in the basement. For a while, in fact, there were two private schools using the church, a preschool which is still in existence, and an elementary/jr high that isn't. It is the grade school of which I speak today.
The grade school was run by a lady I'll call Donna (for anyone reading this who actually knows which church I'm talking about I don't mean That Donna, or That One, I mean the Other One. Yeah) Anyways, Donna was apparently well educated, or at least sounded like it, and had a Really Big Ego. So big that when it became obvious that her school and another school were in direct competition with each other she refused to do the logical thing and open talks with them about consolidating schools. Oh, no. HER way was best. Naturally, as a result, both schools went under. But not before the church kicked the grade school out for being totally bankrupt. The Other Donna apparently expected that the church, itself in financial dire straights, would bail them out. You see, she was doing things like hiring her friends and paying them A Lot, when there was no way the school could afford it. Oh, and teaching useless shit like Latin. Anyways, the church finally did the right thing and kicked them out, and the scthool went under. Good riddance to bad rubbish. (I admit I'm biased, Mom volunteered her time with them, asking only for a reference, and she didn't even get a Thank You for putting in 30 hours a week free labor for a year... seriously, what shitty behavior. The only reason she even got the reference is because she went to the pastor. So screw them)
Unfortunately they didn't take their crap with them.
So, the other day Mom announced that That Donna (not The Other Donna) was sick and tired of all the junk left behind (that was taking up room that could be used for other, more useful endeavors, mainly the Food Cupboard which, unlike that school, actually serves the community), and was going to sell off everything the school had left behind. Including, as it turned out, a full set of Latin textbooks.
Latin textbooks. For a Very Small elementary/jr high school that had maybe 100 students. At best.
Aaaaand apparently The Other Donna was totally against teaching stuff that was actually applicable In Real Life like, say, Spanish. Oh no, can't teach Spanish that's too useful. Or something. No, we must teach a FUCKING DEAD LANGUAGE, but teaching one people actually use and which would be useful in the workplace? Heavens no.
I'm sure she would have attracted more students had they taught Spanish. Or French. Or, hell Chinese (they're going to take over the world in the near future, so why not?). But no, The Other Donna had to teach useless shit like Latin. No wonder the school went under.
I couldn't believe it when Mom told me about that the other day. Seriously. Latin. WTF?
