What was it with those catholic schools? I hear the same stuff from everyone.
My memories (it was a long time ago) are having religion shoved down my throat everyday. Not sure if I was a believer then but now 52 years since I left I'm certainly not. Compulsory to go to mass 5 mornings a week.
Discipline way over the top. Not allowed outside the school gates except when something was organised except for one sunday a month, then you had to wear school blazer or suit and cap!!!
Food that was disgraceful. My parents spent plenty to send me there but the dogs on our farm ate better than us boarders did.
No girls. I was there from age 13 to 16.
The attitude of the people who ran the place and their rules. Walk through those gates and you wound the clock back a long way. Maybe a 100 years.
No entertainment that was aimed at teenage boys. Any entertainment was way out of touch with the times. I'd like to see a rock n roll band but no we'd get a Gilbert and Sullivan opera.
Nothing going on like Space Monkey alludes to, but a french kid from Tahiti got one of the island girls that worked in the kitchen pregnant and he was expelled before anyone had the chance to speak to him.
That'll do, but there is plenty more.
