WOOOHOOO My StepSon Is Gettin A "B" In "Morality"!!!!

i am SOOOOOO proud! :eyes:

He is in "Private School" (which i am paying a fucking FORTUNE for) and he has a SOLID "D" average BUT i just received his progress report and he has a B in "MORALITY" :eyes:

i didn't agree to this shit (just for the record) and because this is a "religious" school, i am TRULEY sooooooooo proud! sssoooooo, what exactly ARE they teaching him do you suppose? (Catholic school btw)
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*SIGH* well, at LEAST he is learning SOMETHING!

*I Suppose*

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Morale Check, DM?

A D average except for some airy conceptual thing that may or may not be good?

Why private school?

and was required to take a Morals class. Basically, if you showed up, and didn't BLATANTLY nap on your desk, you got an A.

-- Allen

in bangkok? wow-now that must have been something. oh my god,the chess sound track is playing in my head , i shouldn`t have said anything!!!!!

... that we could afford. All the cool kids went to ISB: International School of Bangkok. The rest of us went to Ruam-Rudee International School.


-- Allen

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If he can BS well enough to get a B in "morality" in a Catholic school then he may be Supreme Court material...

Congrats on his B!

Just as an aside....I was watching the Newshour this week and this guy who won a Nobel Prize for science (or something like that) was a Phd in Physics. During the course of the interview he remarked that he did very poorly in high school and even dropped out.

Good luck to your stepson, Matcom!

She's doing good to spell her own name. If I were her father, I'd demand my money back. (To be fair to her school, they didn't have much to work with.)

My stepfather, who is U/U, has always praised the education he got from the Jesuits. He doesn't care for their religion, but they gave him a first-class education, a fact which is soon apparent to anyone who tries to debate him. Debate class was mandatory back in his day, and they sharpened his mind unmercifully. His education as a lawyer further intensified the effect. Anytime someone cites something in support of an argument - something that can't immediately be verified - he demands chapter and verse, and when they can't produce it, demolishes their claims as nothing more than hearsay, to be discounted until produced. Then, with his adversary off-balance, he proceeds to tie them in knots.

I've often wished I had a Jesuit education, especially when debating him.

they're great at teaching logic and analysis, they insist on having the facts to support a position, and they actually allow a pretty wide range of positions - just be sure you have the information to back it up.

And debate wasn't a course I took, it was part of every class I took.

I treasure the education they helped me get and would actually welcome spending several days a week in that environment again.

After being taught by Jesuits, most American discussion is pretty vapid since people like Rush Limbaugh are frequently cited as the standard. I know that's not true here on DU, but outside of here it's hard to have a vigorous discussion.

No pun intended. :eyes:

The only lessons I remember from Catholic school dealing with morality taught us teenaged boys to refrain from masturbation and premarital sex.

Failed the course.