re: Archdiocese of N.O. dropping the hammer on schools

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Diddles and Dan - when were y'all there? I was there when we had brothers too.

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I was there many moons ago. Br. Joseph, Br. Amadee, Br. Rafeal, Br. Lawrence, Mr. Rowan, and Br. Edward was the principal. there was only one lay teacher there when I attended.

Edited to add Br. Justin. Those are all that I can remember at the moment.

The City of St. George is calling for you!

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I was there in the late 90s. Brother Amadey was my 6th grade home room teacher. He really was a great man and I was upset when I heard he passed. I also had brother Lawrence and Mr. Rowan.

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I am surprised Amadee and Rowan were stil teaching. I wathced Amadee beat the everloving piss out of a few of my classmates. I thought it was funny as hell. Many of my best school memories were at CBS. If you got in a fight with another kid the brothers let it go until it went to the ground and your punishment was a lap around the school or picking up papers for Br Edward. Those were much simpler times.

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I was there many moons ago. Br. Joseph, Br. Amadee, Br. Rafeal, Br. Lawrence, Mr. Rowan, and Br. Edward was the principal. there was only one lay teacher there when I attended.

Edited to add Br. Justin. Those are all that I can remember at the moment.

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They were all there when I was. Had Bros. Ambrose, Austin then Lawrence for homerooms.

I really liked Bro Austin. What was the english teacher brother's name that dished out "lines, lines... Johnson 20 lines, make it 40 lines plus 3 pages"

Bro Edward was our principal and Mr. Don was our only lay teacher. It was a good school, but I don't think it's the same now from what I hear.

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I was there in the late 90s. Brother Amadey was my 6th grade home room teacher. He really was a great man and I was upset when I heard he passed. I also had brother Lawrence and Mr. Rowan.

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You were about 10 years after me.

I remember one day Brother Justin threw an eraser at some kid, and the kid either threw it back at him or actually got up and tried to hit him. classroom door got kicked open, kid got tossed out. A few seconds later his desk followed.

I remember when I started, I was in total fear and suffering culture shock, having come from a public school. I quickly learned that while they were strict you could get away with a lot of shite.

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I watched Br. Austin kick the top off of a kids desk that almost hit the ceiling.

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Saw the same thing, except he kicked it on purpose because the kid had his head down sleeping. Bro rang his fricking bell. We laughed our asses off.

I tell parents now "when I was there, they used to kick arse" and they're like "Oh my god, really?" I mean shite, when I was there, half the kids were there because they were just fricking bad and their parents needed them to get beat.

Did y'all have the backstories ont he brothers?

Austin supposedly joined the bros because he killed a guy boxing in the marines and couldn't live with himself.

Alfred was a spanish gangmember and knifed a guy and was given choice of brotherhood or jail.

Those are the only two I recall off hand.

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HC has had 5th grade for at least 40 years, they should be grandfathered under the rule.

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HC Middle School started in 71. A friend's brother was a student in the original 5th grade class.

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That school is a shell of it's former self with the faculty it currently has. I considered sending my son but did not because it is no longer the same school.

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I'm thinking you have some bad information. I know many top notch families that send their kids there. It is a very good feeder school for Jesuit.

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Austin supposedly joined the bros because he killed a guy boxing in the marines and couldn't live with himself

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Heard this one and also one that Br. Joseph was a ruthless infantryman in WW2 and had such grief over all of the lives he had taken he became a brother.

https://ocs.arch-no.org/ckeditor_assets/attachments/59/implementation_plan_may_6_2013.pdf

There are four types of schools under the Archdiocese: Schools under the immediate direction of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, Parish schools, Sponsored schools, and Religious Order schools.

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Religious Order schools: These schools are operated by a religious congregation. Such schools follow archdiocesan policies as understood in the covenant between the religious congregation and the Archdiocese. In order to ensure clarity between the Archdiocese and the religious congregations, the superintendent, on behalf of the Archbishop, will work with the religious congregations to develop a written covenant.

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Basically, even though they are run by the Jesuits, they have an agreement with the Archdiocese and don't have total autonomy.