Should I rush/pledge at mizzou?

IrishLake · #1 06-22-2011, 12:56 PM

I went to a co-ed Catholic high school for 13 years (graduated in 98), and in all of those years, I had nuns twice and a lay person once, and all went to 4 year colleges. Everyone else was a normal teacher. Some weren't even Catholic. I think the that same school right now, there aren't any nuns or lay people teaching. I also have never heard of Catholic schools hiring non-college grads. Not in recent years, at least. Too much competetion for teaching jobs. We had one high school chemistry teacher for one year who had an MBA, but not a teaching degree (he was horrible and only lasted a year).

As an aside about nuns and priests not going to college and being greek.... dont' assume about anything. We have a visiting priest who has 3 biological children. He was married for 30 years, he became a deacon in that time, his wife died so he wasn't permitted to remarry. He figured why not go "all the way" and become a priest? He felt the calling and was ordained at the young age of 62.

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AnotherKD · #2 06-22-2011, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by IrishLake

I think the that same school right now, there aren't any nuns or lay people teaching.

Whaaaaaaat?????? Really?

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Originally Posted by IrishLake

We have a visiting priest who has 3 biological children. He was married for 30 years, he became a deacon in that time, his wife died so he wasn't permitted to remarry. He figured why not go "all the way" and become a priest? He felt the calling and was ordained at the young age of 62.

That's cool.

Titchou · #3 06-22-2011, 01:43 PM

[QUOTE=AnotherKD;2064840]Whaaaaaaat?????? Really?

Maybe she meant they don't do a very good job of teaching.

The Catholic girls' HS I went to (in the 60's) mostly had nuns but had a couple or 3 lay teachers - all female. ALL the nuns had at least a master's and at least 2 had PhD's(one had 2 PhD's!)...Very educated bunch....

And oddly enough, it was in Missouri!

AlphaFrog · #4 06-22-2011, 01:54 PM

The Catholic high school I went to had only a couple nuns, and they were mainly in the counseling dept (talk about useless). The school didn't require that you had a college degree, however that was sort of like recs not being *required* at Bama...just because it's TECHNICALLY not required doesn't mean much.

sunnyday · #5 06-23-2011, 07:23 AM

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Originally Posted by IrishLake

I I think the that same school right now, there aren't any nuns or lay people teaching.

So who IS teaching? It's a self-study program?

AnotherKD · #6 06-23-2011, 07:34 AM

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Originally Posted by kcprin

what do you mean, "exactly"?

You have a sense of humor- I like you.

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Originally Posted by sunnyday

So who IS teaching? It's a self-study program?

Um, I would interpret her as saying that the teachers, since they aren't nuns or people without degrees, consist of people that have gone through college, gotten their teaching degree, and are now teaching. It just happens to be at a Catholic school rather than a public school. No, it is not a self-study program.

sunnyday · #7 06-23-2011, 07:42 AM

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Um, I would interpret her as saying that the teachers, since they aren't nuns or people without degrees, consist of people that have gone through college, gotten their teaching degree, and are now teaching. It just happens to be at a Catholic school rather than a public school. No, it is not a self-study program.

Sorry for the confusion. I'm a lifelong Catholic and we use the term "lay person" to mean anyone who is non-clergy. It has nothing to do with obtaining a degree. So a layperson, to me, would mean someone who was not a nun, etc, regardless of their degree status. A college-educated trained teacher who was not a nun would still be called a lay person. So I was confused by who exactly that left. Apparently, this Catholic high school uses the term "lay person" a bit differently than the parish I've been part of for 20 years. Sorry about that!

MysticCat · #8 06-23-2011, 08:02 AM

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Originally Posted by sunnyday

Sorry for the confusion. I'm a lifelong Catholic and we use the term "lay person" to mean anyone who is non-clergy. It has nothing to do with obtaining a degree. So a layperson, to me, would mean someone who was not a nun, etc, regardless of their degree status.

Except, of course, that a nun is not clergy either; clergy = bishop, priest or deacon.

I think the group of people you're trying to describe would be lay (not clergy) and non-religious (not members of a religious order of monks, friars, nuns or sisters. Clergy can be religious or secular.)

sunnyday · #9 06-23-2011, 08:04 AM

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Originally Posted by MysticCat

Except, of course, that a nun is not clergy either; clergy = bishop, priest or deacon.

I think the group of people you're trying to describe would be lay (not clergy) and non-religious (not members of a religious order of monks, friars, nuns or sisters. Clergy can be religious or secular.)

Goodness, yes. Sorry again. That's what I meant. But either way, if someone said that there were no nuns and no lay people teaching in a school here, we (at my parish, at least) would not know who was left, really.