The survivor from the plane crash in the Andes was going to speak at our graduation, but instead we got a monk who basically talked about how abortion was bad. I was pissed that we were supposed to have this cool guy and got a crappy one.Deplorable and even more so because the girl had just been handed a diploma from the Woodside Priory School, an elite, by the look of it ($28,850 for tuition alone), Catholic school in the well-to-do community of Palo Alto, California. And while that girl's comment is appalling and probably not typical of her classmates, you can be reasonably sure her sentiment was widely shared by them (read the whole sad business on the excellent blog On Dover Beach).
The mission of Catholic Schools is to give pupils a sound education from the Catholic point of view, even to those who are not Catholic. If a Catholic school does not instill in its young charges Catholic teachings and morals, e.g. the evils of abortion, then it has lost that mission, its reason for being, and should cease to exist.
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