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[Babayaga]

Has anyone ever been taught by a nun? What was your experience like? Positive or negative?

[peppermint]

I had a few nuns as teachers growing up and they're really no different than having any other teacher. They are still people under that habit y'know.

[kelly]

I taught in a Catholic High School for some time, and at least 50% of my co-workers were nuns and priests. They were all great people, and as regards their teaching, they were strict but got their point across and the kids learned..thats all that matters.

[just because]

At my school i got taught by nuns as well and they were very strict but basically they were nice people, same as normal people...you get some psychos, you get some lovely people and most fall in between..

When they hot you with the love stick it bloody hurt though...i think some of them used to be golf or baseball players they could hit so hard

[TJ]

I'm not catholic but, wherever possible, I sent my children to catholic schools.
I did this because the students learned more there and were better behaved. The nuns were dedicated to their students, not like some of the teachers at some government schools in Australia.

Yes there are exceptions, but .......

Even the good teachers in Australian government schools often get ground down and discouraged by the system. For example ........ While I was doing my Grad dip ed I was sent to a government school for teaching practice. I was warned not to put my hand on a (boy) student's shoulder or I could be charged with assault. At the same school I saw a teacher catch 4 students smoking marijuana - he sent them back to their class and didn't even report it to the principal. Students started a fire in an underpass and I was told that was a frequent occurrence. Other students were afraid to leave the school grounds after classes because they had welched on a drug deal and would be beaten up when they left the comparitive safety of the school.

I could go on but I think you will understand why I chose to send my kids to be taught by nuns where ever possible. I wasn't prepared to risk my childrens' future on the remote possibility that they might get good teachers in a good government school..

[mindmetoo]

The nuns were cool. I think you have to have a good sense of humor to be so close to being a priest but forbidden because God chose to make you female...

We didn't have the luxury of having any actual priests as teachers. Priests are in such short supply.

The worst were the religious lay workers, people who were celibate, gave themselves to God, but weren't priests/nuns/monks/etc. It was like Vatican II never happened in their eyes.

[Babayaga]

I also heard a lot of positive about the discipline in Catholic schools,but also a lot of negative about the nuns' harshness and lack of warmth.

I personally never studied in the Catholic schools,but had 2 piano teachers who were nuns. One was a real sweetie,the other was an ogre. She was always suspicious and mistrustful. Her favourite saying to all of her pupils was:"I don't trust you",as if teenage students were inherently bad ,lazy and liers. She was the type who obstinately thought that hard,excruciating work was the answer to everything,and that the only explanation of lack of progress was pure laziness.


Example:she obtusely could not understand why I played Chopin(and other romantics) better than non--lyrical,aggressive 20th Century stuff,attributing lack of success in this style to laziness and obstinacy.


Anyways,because of her attitude we always had spats with her,and eventually I dropped her. She was the worst teacher I ever had. I still shudder when I remember those times.

[Dan The Chainsawman]

Sister Mary unleashed hell on my arse more than once during my youngin' days. OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH she had this paddle with holes in it... that thing used to whistle! OUUUCCCCH!

though i deserved all three thousand or so times I got paddled.

[Babayaga]

[mindmetoo]

[UncleAlex]

Mindmetoo, I wouldn't mind being taught by a nun if she's as cute as the
one in your attached photograph. Which order does she belong to?

[Babayaga]