Before I begin this blog I would like to say that I do not mean to offend any of you red headed, freckled, pale skinned, potato eating, lacrosse playing, mommy and daddy pay college tuition on your middle school education, “help father O’Shennanigans touched me in the back room”, types of people in the world. I have nothing against you, do what you do. Catholics are cool people for the most part.
Anyway, today I went to the gym, lifted and fast walked/ jogged for a little while. But in between banging weights and doing cardio to the talented stylings of Ms. Kelly Clarkson (or is it Mrs. Kelly Clarkson? Is she married? She should be. She has one of the fattest/phattest booties I have ever seen on a White female…someone needs to lock that down, but then there is the problem of having a wife more famous than you, which most dudes can’t deal with…but that’s another topic, back on story) I saw a sundry of dudes there all with some form of catholic school paraphernalia. The school of choice (apparently) was St. Xavier (Louisville, KY). This just got me thinking about life and wondering about stuff. Deep, I know. Why on earth would anyone send their child to catholic school and pay all of that tuition to have them end up at UK.
FIGURE 57.1: Public School worked well for him…
Most people might stop me here and say “But Gabriel, catholic school is better than Public school, and the system works, and <blah, blah, blah>” The system doesn’t friggin work. Do you know how many catholic school people I know or have known at some point in my life? The answer is billions. I worked with most of them for my summer camp job, and those were the good ones (females.) Out of every catholic high school student that I knew about 25% of them stayed in the school their entire career and have ended up going to college. Most of them drop out and go to schools like Atherton or Butler and then proceed to get pregnant and fail at life once they receive their certificate of having some form of human consciousness (also known as the High School Diploma.) These are the sorts of things that make me angry. Whenever people deal with money (in almost any form) they should think of it like the stock market or a business. If I decide to spend extra money on my child’s schooling then I better see return on that crap as soon as the check clears (or debit card payment in the future most likely…crazy technology.) If I were to send my child to a catholic school they better end up going to MIT or Stanford or some crap to major in genetic engineering or physics, or something that can help not send me to a “retirement home” (I wonder what those places will be called in the future. Our generation won’t have retirement because of all the baby boomers have multiple kids and living to be 130 years old…maybe they’ll be called privatization of social security screwed you over and now you live in an abandoned prison homes…oh well.) Instead almost all of these catholic school clowns drained 60,000 out of their parent’s bank account to stay in state and major in exercise science and literature while they get drunk and throw around their panties every weekend in order to land some rich husband that has decided to do something useful with his time in college.
Not to mention the fact that they end up going to the same school as people like me, who graduated high school with a sub 2.0 GPA. If there is any douchebag like myself at any college that I have to personally pay for, I will feel I have failed as a parent. But that doesn’t matter to parents who send their children to these catholic schools. Especially the father. Catholic high schools usually have better athletics than most (because they recruit started in day care and have millions of dollars to pump into designer drugs and equipment…oops, did I say that, anyway) and the father wants his kid to be the next quarter back for the best team in the state failing to realize that the other 99.999998272 percent of the people in the city want the same thing for their son(s) who also happen to be going to these same schools. But screw it, in the immortal words of the President-Ninja George W. Bush ‘it’s their money, they paid for it’.
The only redeeming qualities about catholic schools are the females that go there. I went to high school down the street from Assumption. A bunch of sexy females all participating in athletics (mainly volleyball and basketball) that do laps around the tennis courts on hot spring days wearing scantily clad shards clothing was just amazing!
FIGURE 57.2: A nice (Black) example of why half the guys on my high school team even played tennis.
Which is another reason my daughter won’t go to catholic school, I don’t need some perverted minded kids hitting on her at Krispy Kreme and on the TARC while she’s a freshmen and those douches are juniors and seniors…stupid Karma…that’s why I don’t believe in it. It’s dumb.
Tags: Catholic Schools, college, Finance, Majors, The Economy
December 20, 2008 at 11:15 pm
It’s America, land of the free, home of the uneducated. Education begins in the home. If the parents aren’t in the drivers seat of educating their children, every “system” will fail. Asian success is rooted in parental encouragement, not just better schoolbooks, or shorter recesses.
It reminds me of one of my uncles. His parents taught him to read before he was in school, and pushed him to read all through school. They bought him ANY educational books he wanted, and made him read them instead of watch TV. He ended up graduating from Fern Creek HS, and leaving for Amherst College, later going on to Harvard and receiving his PhD. Now he’s a world renown historian teaching at the University of Vienna. His success only underlines the IMPORTANCE of parents in educating children.
The only thing that makes me sicker than the parents that think they can cut a check for something effort based like education, is the parents that think “dem public skools wul be gud nuf jawb” and never do anything to educate their children.