Dear Saint Xavier High School of Louisville

I wanted to thank you for helping our family make a very important decision.  You see, Irish Woman and I have been struggling as to which direction to take the BooBoo’s education.  We live in an area with excellent public schools, a well-regarded secular K-12 school, and a Catholic K-8 school that feeds to the Catholic high schools, including y’all.  I am a product of public schools, and I know that with hard work by both Irish Woman and I we can make sure that Boo gets a good education in the public school system.  Irish Woman is a product of the Catholic school system here in Louisville, and even went to your sister high school for girls.

To be honest, we have been in disagreement over which way to go.  I favor the secular private school or the public schools.  Irish Woman wants to put him in Catholic schools.  It’s really a difference of opinion at this point.  With enough work and pushing, he can get a good education in public schools, and I know that both the secular and Catholic private schools can provide an excellent start to his life.  I had been leaning toward dropping my opposition to the Catholic school system due to the importance that Irish Woman places on it.

But after reading this, I have to regretfully tell you all this:

It will be a cold day in hell before a dime of our families money, a drop of our sweat, or a second of our lives are spent in support of your school or the schools that feed students to you.

You see, I have been that boy.  Halfway through my senior year of high school, I decided to postpone college and enter the military. I signed up for the delayed entry program, finished high school, then left for basic training.  I wore the promotional tee shirt and all that to school, and took all the crap my Bay Area teachers and fellow students could hand out.  I was harangued by my English teacher and guidance counselor about how I was throwing my life away.  My ‘friends’ tried to convince me that I was going to be a killer.  Exactly two people in the entire school acted like I was more than a bastard at the family reunion:  the janitor and the vice-principal.

This young man has decided to to start his adult life by doing something more honorable than partying, blowing off classes, trying to figure out how to sneak booze into the dorm, and participating in the annual re-enactment of Animal House.  He’s choosing to give up his youth to do something for all of us, and you shamed him for celebrating that decision.  No matter what policy you change now that you’ve been called out for your behavior, your attitude that anyone who decides that college isn’t the most important thing in life is less of a person won’t change.

So thank you for simplifying our decision.  We are now down to a choice between two options for our child’s education, and we won’t be bothering you with our quaint belief in such things as selfless service, duty, and honor.

Yours truly,

Daddy J. Bear

Posted by daddybear71 on May 18, 2012

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