Well this is nice, indeed. We weren't surprised at all when we heard that yet another Catholic school had pressured a faculty member to resign after finding out he'd gotten married to his same-sex partner. But in the Seattle suburb of Sammamish, when students at Eastside Catholic High School learned that Vice Principal Mark Zmuda had been given the choice this week of resigning or being fired for marrying Dana Jergens earlier this year, virtually the entire student body and several faculty members walked out of the school and
Of course, here in Ontario Catholic schools receive full funding from the gummint. Our public high school almost closed when a new, fancy-schmancy Catholic high school opened up down the road. Even the 3 Jewish kids in the area went to the Catholic school because "shiny". Of course, it was at that school that the big sexting scandal broke out last year. Ah, Schadenfreude. It was several years ago that a former student of mine was FIRED by the Catholic board because he got married and asked for spousal benefits for his husband, as was his right. Hey, if you want your kid to get a "values" edumacation, then do it on your own fucking dime. Be like the Mennonite parents I see driving their kids to their private school every morning because the province doesn't fund the school or buses for them to get there. Don't for the love of god (literally) let them learn anything from a godless heathen teacher like me. There is no way that the Catholics should get a fully taxpayer-funded K-12 school system to indoctrinate kids.
Nothing quite so principled. To get discounted tuition, you had to work at the school, doing manual labor, over the summer.
I didn't feel like it, so off to Bellevue High I went.
I was expecting that Democracy asterisk to say, "Well, most of the time."
Oh good. We've finally found people who AREN'T Boomers? Yay.
Hey, I can say puwallup.
Republic of Heaven.
It was a goofy idea, but I liked it.
Um, without looking at any pictures, "plain, undeserving husband" and "whore husband" sort of paint an image.
Holy Sheep Shit.
I went to Eastside Catholic for a year, but it was in Downtown Bellevue at the time, where that nice park across from the mall is now.
I think I see the Pope near the end of that line.
What? No love for Skykomish, Snohomish, or Snoqualmie?
Of course, here in Ontario Catholic schools receive full funding from the gummint. Our public high school almost closed when a new, fancy-schmancy Catholic high school opened up down the road. Even the 3 Jewish kids in the area went to the Catholic school because "shiny". Of course, it was at that school that the big sexting scandal broke out last year. Ah, Schadenfreude. It was several years ago that a former student of mine was FIRED by the Catholic board because he got married and asked for spousal benefits for his husband, as was his right. Hey, if you want your kid to get a "values" edumacation, then do it on your own fucking dime. Be like the Mennonite parents I see driving their kids to their private school every morning because the province doesn't fund the school or buses for them to get there. Don't for the love of god (literally) let them learn anything from a godless heathen teacher like me. There is no way that the Catholics should get a fully taxpayer-funded K-12 school system to indoctrinate kids.
rant over.
So did I! And probably he should have been.