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| brittany | Feb 1 2009, 04:50 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/nyregion/long-island/28cathli.html |
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| Quasimodo | Feb 1 2009, 05:19 PM Post #2 |
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Doesn't sound like the sort of place a swaggering, boastful, rowdy, arrogant, disrespectful hooligan could attend for four years without getting a single demerit. Is it possible that John Burness got it wrong? Edited by Quasimodo, Feb 1 2009, 05:24 PM.
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| Deleted User | Feb 2 2009, 12:11 AM Post #3 |
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Nah! This is just a deceptive facade, a Potemkin village. Look at their vicious faces! Future rapists, every one of them!
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| Bill Anderson | Feb 2 2009, 07:50 AM Post #4 |
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Exactly. His Corpulence always is right.
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| brittany | Feb 2 2009, 08:33 AM Post #5 |
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No longer getting a link so here is a snip without the photo. NYTimes September 26, 2008 At a Boy's Catholic school tradition fuels demand. UNLIKE most Roman Catholic schools in the New York area, which embrace students regardless of their religion, Chaminade High School here requires a baptismal certificate to register. “No exception,” said the Rev. James C. Williams, a cherub-faced priest who is the school’s president. “We advertise that pretty clearly because this is who we are. I don’t have room for all the Catholics who want to be here.” Indeed, more than 1,600 boys from as far as Manhattan and Westchester County applied last year for 425 freshman seats at Chaminade, which many consider one of Long Island’s premier private schools and a relative bargain at $6,660 a year. Chaminade, founded in 1930 and now the Island’s only all-boys Catholic school, has thrived by staying unabashedly Catholic and traditional. As the school year began this month, Chaminade students bowed their heads for a 10-minute morning prayer, repeated in an abbreviated version before every class. “Here I Am, Lord,” drifted through the hallways as the glee club practiced for a school Mass. Shortly before noon, the chapel filled with teenagers for a lunchtime prayer service. No talk here of squaring Catholic teachings with secular realities. In 2005, out of concern over excessive materialism and alcohol consumption, Chaminade canceled its prom and later replaced it with a modest dinner cruise around Manhattan. There is a strict dress code that also prohibits facial hair. Despite a recent haircut, Dominic DaRocha, a freshman, spent an hour during the first week of classes cleaning up the school library because his dark brown mop fell below ear level — a violation. “I thought I kind of deserved it,” Dominic, 13, said after a second haircut. “I know it’s a good school, and that’s all that really matters.” Enrollment at Long Island’s 11 Catholic high schools is up about 7 percent since 2002, to nearly 13,000 (though down about 20 percent at elementary schools), according to officials with the Rockville Centre Diocese, which covers Long Island. Sean Dolan, a spokesman for the diocese, said, “What we’re seeing anecdotally is that people are saving their money and saying we can’t do both, so we’re going to put them in public elementary school and then put them in Catholic high school.” But perhaps no place is more popular than Chaminade, which has top-notch academic and athletic programs and last summer expanded its campus with a $20 million sports and activities complex. Donations from a high-powered alumni network that includes former Senator Alfonse M. D’Amato, County Executive Thomas R. Suozzi and the television commentator Bill O’Reilly paid for the project. Parents like Gina and James McGovern pay school taxes of more than $10,000 a year in Merrick but switched their 14-year-old son, Terence, to Chaminade this year so he could discuss issues like poverty, social justice and respect for life from a Catholic perspective. “We’re not proselytizing or preaching, we’re simply looking for an opportunity to have a school system that supports the lessons we’re teaching in our home,” said Mrs. McGovern, a former PTA president. “I think the pendulum has swung so far in the other direction that it makes religious expression difficult or uncomfortable in public school.” The tradition of parochial schools is strong on Long Island, where church officials estimate that Catholics make up half the population. But enrollment has also been growing at schools in the Archdiocese of New York, which oversees 55 high schools in 10 counties. snip Edited by brittany, Feb 2 2009, 08:35 AM.
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| chatham | Feb 2 2009, 08:50 AM Post #6 |
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Looks exactly like the high school I went to in CT. But I had to wear a tie and jacket to all my classes.The link seems to work. Edited by chatham, Feb 2 2009, 08:50 AM.
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| HSLAXMOM | Feb 2 2009, 09:56 AM Post #7 |
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were you a little Prep ster? They still have to wear ties, but the jackets are gone. |
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| brittany | Feb 2 2009, 10:28 AM Post #8 |
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Yes the photo shows everyone of them as a ne'er-do-well. |
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| chatham | Feb 2 2009, 10:30 AM Post #9 |
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lol.... no, I don't remember myself that way. Well.....nah. Had to work to have money, parents broke paying for school. |
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| Baldo | Feb 2 2009, 11:07 AM Post #10 |
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As a First grader I had to wear a tie. Later it was relaxed to a white shirt and brown pants for all the boys while the girls had white blouses and those Catholic girl school skirts. Enforcing tradition and dress codes is important in teaching respect in children. |
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| brittany | Feb 2 2009, 11:27 AM Post #11 |
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How I wish the public schools had a real dress code. The kids look so great wearing the same clothing at their concerts. Baldo, remember Marc Fisher of the Washington Post with his article "Wolves in Blazers and Khakis" . Don't get me started. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/12/AR2006071201911.html |
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| DMom | Feb 2 2009, 11:37 AM Post #12 |
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LOL I have friend who, even 40+ yrs out of high school, refuses to wear anything PLAID, b/c of her 'Catholic School days". Agree that dress codes (not necessarily uniforms) are helpful to all. |
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| Baldo | Feb 2 2009, 11:52 AM Post #13 |
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They sure are cheaper though and at my old High School they still have uniforms. This time they are a little more "Cool!" The girls can also wear pants and shorts in the spring. They have casual days. The more important aspect is they consistently have excellent scores, are more diverse, allow other denominations, and while I won't pretend they are angels they have a sense of decorum that carries them into the future. Tradition works. |
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| Concerned | Feb 2 2009, 12:00 PM Post #14 |
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I'm surprised that the public schools won't support school uniforms to ensure that everyone looks the "same." I guess they prefer boys wearing their big-legged pants hanging down past their bottoms. Chaminade sounds like a great school. |
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| Deleted User | Feb 2 2009, 02:00 PM Post #15 |
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School uniforms are a part of liberal demonology: it is a form of child abuse or something... |
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to all my classes.

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