Saturday, September 27, 2014

SUFFER FIRST THE CHILDREN

Charity and beating begins at home. Fletcher

Dubious Dan's "Bishop's (?) Corner" may be silly, but it's often a picture window on his psyche. Hunched in that shabby nook, he wrestles with his demons, airs his grievances, and encodes his intentions. One psychologist-friend pronounced the column a "therapist's dream." Most of the time, it's good for a laugh, but last Sunday's message left us unsettled.

Five years ago, around this very time of the year, the infamous SGG School scandal began to spin out of Dannie's control. The pressure for reform was so great that the cult masters promised to replace the embattled lay principal with a priest, insisting that clerical leadership had always been their dream. As you may know, the "priest" whom they appointed ended up with the pink slip, not the principal at the center of the crisis. After Wee Dan's calamitous miscalculation, SGG shattered ... never to be put back together again.

The haunting memories and the terrifying angst brought on by so much lost income must make these late September days appear especially dark. Therefore, it's no surprise that last week Dannie gave the culties a hair-raising meditation on SGG School and the virtues of corporal punishment. We'll try to parse what he wrote.

Right after "One Hand" noted the school-children's "making good progress in many fields," he found it necessary to scold the crumb-crushers, compelling them "not to bring food or drink back to the classrooms, or indeed, around the building." Then he bitterly snarled, "We don’t have a janitor anymore, and I do need each of you to do your part." You can almost feel the seething anger about to erupt, can't you? He lost his apostolate because of sniveling urchins, and now they're littering his decaying cult center. From what sounds like a vicious reproof, we gather there's no money to pay -- or no one to volunteer -- for the sorely needed custodial services.  

Immediately afterward, Dannie reveals what's really getting his goat: "Crumbs left in classrooms, and cups of coffee spilled in the school wastepaper baskets create unnecessary Monday morning work for our teachers, who already have so much to do.Ah-HA!  Now we get it. The "teachers" don't want to be janitors either, so they must have complained about Dannie's poor people-management skills. He and the principal can't even supervise a few scrawny kids and addled adult catechists at Sunday school. Now that's incompetence!

(Just one small observation on our part: On leisurely Sunday afternoons, why was it too much to ask for the principal -- the proximate cause of so many of Dannie's woes -- and the doubtfully ordained "priests" to take a couple of minutes to police what few classrooms the cult center has? Perhaps these eminent theologians consider basic hygiene to be servile labor, but fixing stacks of flapjacks isn't.

The complaints must have really made "One-Hand Dan" angry, because he then lashed out at Gertie parents, who, if the collection statistics are accurate, aren't doing their part either with the collection basket to allow SGG to hire custodial help: 
The old discipline of eating neatly, and in one place, is a precious one to pass on to our children. Encourage them as well, by word and example, to clean up after themselves, even in Helfta Hall (or at home!) Don’t leave a mess for the nonexistent janitor. You probably don’t have a janitor at home either.
If we're not mistaken, it looks as if the low-class cultling adults, like their uncouth offspring, aren't cleaning up after their slovenly selves. It's a pity Dannie doesn't understand the effects of the financial demands he makes on the suckers. If he did, he'd know that they're flat broke from supporting all the cult masters' excesses. They have to leave crumbs around at home as bait for cockroaches: How else can their runt offspring get the protein they need to grow up to be the Traddie thugs of tomorrow? C'mon, Dan: They were just trying to be helpful by leaving food waste. Empathize!

No matter.  Dannie was in a fine funk about it all. He used the NFL's Adrian Peterson (not Petersen) scandal as the springboard for what read like some wistful thoughts on the bodily punishment of children.  Appealing to no less an advocate than Fulton Sheen, Dannie archly quoted the archbishop's one liner,"' Everything in the American home is controlled with a switch, except the children,'" cheerfully adding that Sheen "went on to praise the efficacy of giving children a good pat on the back, provided it be low enough and frequent enough. "

And that's what's got us unnerved.

Is this convergence of  (1) the ominous fifth anniversary of the ruinous SGG School scandal, (2) the cultie children's and adults' barnyard manners, (3) the pathetically insufficient contributions, and (4) the aching nostalgia for the "
use of a switch" a mere coincidence?

Or does it herald the return to pre-2009 SGG School policy?

You know, almost all the decent people left in late 2009 and early 2010, so mostly the dregs remain. (The few downright scumbags who did exit at that time have since returned to the cult with their tails between their legs.) Some of the brainwashed  zombies might not object if the school resumed its former hard-line, hickory-stick ways.


IF YOU CAN READ AND STILL HAVE A CONSCIENCE, TAKE YOUR KIDS AND GET OUT OF THE CULT TODAY!

8 comments:

  1. I'm curious as to what the enrollment was around 2009 , and do you know what it is now?
    Is it possible that most of the people there now are new and are unaware of that fiasco?

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    1. We don't have the statistics, but we will ask some contacts.

      Since the school ranges from elementary to senior high school, it's unlikely that the entire school body has turned over. Additionally, we hear that the school scandal is still discussed among the cult members. For the most part, we have a perfect example of cult behavior. We'd say that most of the parents knew what was going on but still chose to send their children to the school.

      The uproar in 2009 probably did a lot of good for the children who had to remain at the school. Conditions did improve because the pressure and scrutiny were so high, and secret reports tell us the screaming etc. have abated.

      Nevertheless, not to have demanded a thoroughgoing reform was a grave failure on the parents' part.

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  2. What's wrong with aching nostalgia for the use of a switch? ... Wait, are you saying it's wrong to spank children? Oh no! I better take my Bible back to the book store of my (non-lay-run) traditional Catholic parish where I purchased it, because it seems to be wrong. This is what it says about the use of a switch:

    "Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and the rod of correction shall drive it away." Proverbs 22:15

    "He that spareth the rod, hateth his son: but he that loveth him, correcteth him betimes." Proverbs 13:24

    "The rod and reproof give wisdom: but the child that is left to his own will, bringeth his mother to shame." Proverbs 29:15.

    "Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell." Proverbs 23:13-4.

    "Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and the rod of correction shall drive it away." Proverbs 22:15.

    But this explains a lot about this blog, because it's obvious you weren't spanked enough as a child.

    Seriously, though, if you would read a little more of the Books of Wisdom and a little less pop psychology, you might have a little more of the former and less of the latter.

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    1. "In the mouth of a fool is the rod of pride: but the lips of the wise preserve them" (Pr. 14:3).

      Your lips betray you to be a fervent spanking enthusiast, and hence well suited to the sicko cult where punishment is meted out without due proportion.

      The fervency of your advocacy for corporal punishment reminds us of the unspeakable mid-Victorian genre of "birch" literature with its perverted delight in the whoosh, whoosh, whoosh of the burning switch. Oh, well, each to his own, we suppose. "A fool is beaten with lips" (Pr. 10:8).

      Obviously, you should have been spanked less often in your impressionable youth so that you didn't develop the exquisite taste you now possess for disciplinary pain. I'm sure the mail order catalogs are grateful for your patronage.

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    2. Spoken like a true public school employee. The baby boomer generation raised their children according to the principles of Dr. Spock, and then they wondered why they went wild in the 1960's. Well, if they had read a little more Proverbs and a little less Dr. Spock, their children might not have grown up as the hippies, communists, and radicals who would destroy what was left of Christian civilization.

      What mail order catalogs are you talking about?

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    3. We assume that as a latter-day Charles Beaumont, that "lover of the rod," you would know better than we Readers.

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    4. What mail order catalogs are you talking about? Why can't you answer a simple question?

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    5. We have, in our studied wisdom, already given "an answer to him that reproacheth" (Pr. 27:11).

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