I agree, Terri. Some of us need this instead:
Posted on 05/25/2004 1:03:54 AM PDT by kattracks
May 25, 2004 -- A 11-year-old Queens fifth-grader was booted from her Catholic elementary school for blowing the whistle on a bizarre sex-bracelets game. "I'm happy. I hate that school," a defiant Megan Stecher said after learning that Holy Child Jesus School in Richmond Hill won't let her return next year. "I only have five friends in the whole year."Megan said getting the boot was unfair, but her mother, Michelle, 33, was much angrier.
"I'm outraged," she declared.
Michelle said school officials claimed she slandered Holy Child by allowing her daughter to be photographed by The Post in front of it wearing bracelets and rings that represent different sex acts.
"I didn't slander anybody," said Michelle, after her daughter's expulsion was reported on Fox News. "But what they did today - throwing my daughter out of school - that's slander."
Megan was the subject of a Post front-page story Sunday revealing that some city kids - including girls at Holy Child - play a strange game called "Snap" where girls wear bracelets and rings of different colors and boys try to rip them off.
If a boy succeeds, he gets a coupon from the girl promising to perform whatever sex act the color stands for. Black, for example, represents sexual intercourse.
Michelle said she allowed her daughter to be interviewed because "I wanted parents to know that if it's happening in Catholic schools, its happening in public schools and it's happening everywhere. Half the school does it."
Yesterday, the bracelets hit the fan.
Sister Diane Androvich, the principal, called Megan and her mother in and said the girl would be allowed to take her final exams this year, but wouldn't be allowed back next year, the family said.
"They said I did an un-Christian thing," Michelle said. "They said if there was a problem, I should have reported it to them first. But I feel I was right to let other parents know what their children are doing."
School officials did not return calls for comment.
I agree, Terri. Some of us need this instead:
"They'd only be scheduling last rights for me as I lay in my hospital bed."
My wife taught at a Catholic high school about 5 years ago and it was more liberal than the local public high?? In fact the nuns wore shorts and called each other by their first names. (I think there were only 3 nuns in the school but you couldn't tell who they were -- they hired a bunch of young single teachers as the staff.) The nuns were always trying to prove they were hip and cool and in-tune with the times.
When you throw the baby out with the bath water it is hard to find the baby again and I fear that the Catholic Church is trying too hard to be PC and needs to seperate itself from the world as it once did. As an Episcopalian I have experienced a church turned to apostasy. We just had a Gay Bishop and another guy get married in San Francisco so that is how bad it gets.
Good point. All involved should go down, not just the whistleblower.
Yep, and not only did the mother not inform the school before going to the media, but her daughter was the bracelet "dealer" at the school! Somehow, the fact that her daughter was selling these bracelets at school seemed to have slipped her mother's mind, when the mom was whining about how unfair the school was for throwing out her little darling.
Same with mine, and I only graduate from one 9 years ago. My, how have things changed.
Is that a real product or something made up?
Oh, what an easy excuse!
So, why didn't she go to the principal?
They were wearing these when I was in junior high and high school, in the mid-1980s! Similar BS rumors about their supposed sexual meaning occasionally floated around back then, as well. All that happened is that the "kinkier" colors became more popular for everyone to wear, even though we all knew that 98% of the girls wearing them weren't getting any sexual contact from anybody. (You could buy any colors you wanted from half the stores at the mall.)
Doesn't any Gen-Xers here remember "friendship pins" from elementary school either? Those colors supposedly had "meaning," as well. Same results.
If I saw a nun today in full garb, I would stop dead in my tracks and wait for her to tell me what to do. Doesn't matter that I'm 45 yrs old. No way would I do something wrong in front of a nun. Somehow, cops in nun outfits could be a win - win situation for the crime rate.hahahahaa..
Who woulda thunk it
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