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Sad but true. These kids at a Catholic school were told they would be penalized for attending the March for Life...

These kids at a Catholic school were told they would be penalized for attending the March for Life...

I'm not a big fan of kids (college kids included) cutting class for ANY reason.

What's to stop a group from traipsing off to an Earth Day march?

Kids are at school to go to school, not demonstrate, no matter how admirable the cause.

First, Villanova is not a Catholic School. Villanova, like most other colleges funded by faithful, hard-working, fervent Catholics before 1967 [Give so that generations of students yet unborn will bless your memory for providing the funding by which they were able to get a Catholic education at (St. Fill in the Blank U.)] abandoned the discipline which comes with being a Catholic University when Fr. Hesburgh of Notre Dame convened a conference at Land o' Lakes, Wisconsin in 1967 to deal with the terrible problem facing gutless and/or faithless administrators of such places as Villanova: How can we ever be respected by atheists and agnostics and be respected as REAL universities so long as we are Catholic universities? Oh, the horror!!!!

About six Catholic colleges and universities refused to go along with the Land O'Lakes grand theft academic of Church properties. Grenier College of Erie, Pennsylvania, Catholic University in DC, and St. John's University in NYC come immediately to mind.

The rest, courtesy of the supine cowardice of the liberal AmChurch hierarchy, defied Church authority but expect their students to submit to theirs.

Today, Boston College refers coeds for abortions; Georgetown honors the Arkansas Antichrist; Gonzaga in Seattle actually provided physical pens to contain pro-lifers when Gonzaga was graced by the presence of Albore during last year's campaign; Notre Dame is totally notorious with incidents too gruesome and fatal to be described here.

As a result, actual Catholics have had to fund new colleges and universities so that generations of students yet unborn, etc. They have so far been very careful to keep the termites out of the woodwork.

Withdraw from Villanova, Manhattanville, Notre Dame, University of San Francisco, Georgetown, Fordham, Fairfield, etc., ad nauseam and enroll at St. Thomas Aquinas in California, St. Thomas More in New Hampshire, Magdelen in New Hampshire, Christendom in Virginia and the other two or three actually Catholic colleges newly created.

Blind obedience to asinine rules will get us nowhere. There may have been a time when academic rules deserved respect. We are no longer in that time. Conservative though I am, I am proud that we Baby Boomers blew the lid off of mindless discipline like: if you cut x classes you flunk. If the teacher was actually teaching much of substance, the rule would be unnecessary. Regrettably, the succeeding generations of students seem to have allowed the leftpest administrators to reimpose their petty tyrannies and further to impose Political Correctness at schools "of Catholic heritage."

Homeschooling is ever more popular and effective because the education can be tailored to the student rather than the student forced into a straitjacket of industrial model indoctrination.