[overflow] Re: GHHS

[Lee Gold <leeway@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rich Brown wrote:
> 
> I've been waiting for the thread to jump over.
> 
> I wasn't tormented to any great degree when I was a kid, but I sure
> noticed a double standard operating.  I as a 'good student' could get
> away with many things that 'known troublemakers' would get trundled off
> to the office over.  (I'm talking about low-level stuff here
> ... wandering around the halls during class hours, etc.)  I'm sure the
> known troublemakers noticed all the things they didn't get away with
> things.

I was a good student.  I got called in and lectured for the following:

Other Girl, wearing a cross around her neck, "You're a Jew."
Lee:  "Yes, and you're a Christian."
Other Girl:  "No, I'm not.  I'm a Catholic."
Lee:  "Didn't your mother tell you?  Catholics are Christian."
Other Girl:  "Don't insult my mother."
	Then she swung at me.

The Girls Vice Principal told me not to insult her mother and
not to try changing the subject by explaining that I hadn't.
I have since found out that some Catholics are taught that they
are Cath9olics and that non-Catholics are Christians.  It
still feels weird to me.  

--Lee