You know, there's one advantage of uniforms....

[conuly]

When students from a Catholic school are discussing their racist plans to attend a racist party (their words, not mine!) dressed up as ethnic stereotypes, you can go right to the source and inform their school that they have a problem among their student body.

Now, let's see what sort of response I'm going to get!

Edit: I wish I'd more carefully read the mission statement first, though.

I could've better pointed out how badly the behavior of their students reflects on the school's ability to produce "sensitive and productive members of society" who are "seekers of peace and justice".

Comments

[crystalpyramid]

There's an argument for keeping our dress code that I hadn't even thought of. Nice! (And well done. They had better respond.)

[conuly]

Yes, it helps the village/well-intentioned police state raise children :) (And that's one aspect of societal policing that I'm all in favor of, joking aside.)

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Their list of departments (http://msgrfarrellhs.org/apps/departments/) intrigues me. 2 members of staff in PE, yet no classes, 1 in music, again with no classes... but ok, they could be extra curricular so I suppose that could make sense. But business? and then even better, the philosophy department. Can a department exist if it has no classes and no staff? Perhaps that's the philosophical lesson we learn...

The departments which do exist are interesting too. Look how many opportunities there are to study computer science and English... then look at maths!

[conuly]

Given that their website has no information on admissions or tuition, I'm inclined to think that they simply had no idea how to design it in the first place.

However, that said, some of them are probably classes that are offered if and only if there's demand, so they have people who are qualified to teach it (but who teach something else usually) in case it comes up. Or they're seasonal.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

I think there's probably an element of that, yes. Especially the seasonality. But I'm still shocked about the under-representation of maths if that list is accurate.

Amusingly their languages this semester seem to consist of mostly French and Spanish with one Latin course. The teachers are listed as teaching Spanish and Italian... with none down as teaching French. Fascinant... And making me inclined to agree with your assessment of poor website design.

[conuly]

http://msgrfarrellhs.org/apps/pages/?uREC_ID=64642&type=d

There's their academic requirements. It's not that different from the state requirements.