Catholic Schools

Her Hotness, Delia Gallagher reported on how Catholic schools are doing in the wake of Katrina. Unless you're a product of Catholic education, as I am, you will not know its peculiar significance. While Catholic schools have had a lot of bad rap, mostly from the priest abuse scandal and the days of nuns knocking you over on the head, I have to admit that the good still far outweighs the bad. Now before I proceed any further, I don't want to give the impression that I am only writing about Catholic schools because Her Hotness spoke about it - not true.

(Not without her designer scarf... or shawl, according to the girls...)

Delia reported on how Catholic schools in LA are helping each other regroup and move on. Her report emphasized the community itself - students, parents, teachers - pretty amazing given the fact that Catholic school teachers are paid much less than their public school counterparts, up to 44% less! And yet students of Catholic schools perform much better than their peers. Without the help of FEMA and those other idiots running the show, LA's Catholic schools are doing just fine - that's because when money ceases to be an incentive, the goodness in all of us carries us through.

I know, I know... some people would say that Catholic education has scarred them for life. I used to think the same thing the first time I had meat on a Friday of Lent (which I have not had again, thanks to those nuns and priests) or sex (not on a Friday of Lent and which I will definitely not discuss at all) and spent sleepless nights thinking of my eternal damnation... but as I grew older and left in the world to fend for my spiritual self, the keen awareness of right and wrong has perched itself atop my shoulder always to remind me that there is more to this world. I may not be a good Catholic anymore, at least in regard to strict orthodox guidelines, but I would like to think that I am a better person for admitting it so.