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Offline Justinian

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Re: School with Nuns?
« Reply #15 on: October 23, 2025, 02:04:58 PM »
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    • Quote from: FarmerWife on October 23, 2025, 01:09:35 PM
    Like I said, it doesn't take a genius to homeschool. You can get used textbooks that they use in schools for cheap and teach out of that. You can access sample exams and tests online too. You even have online courses. I wasn't homeschooled and went through the public school system, so I'm quite familar with the education system. I also tutored high school students myself in math and some sciences so I feel pretty comfortable teaching my own kids.

    The other problem with women getting degrees is that they subconsciously want a husband who has a degree or higher. They might look down on a man who has a good job but no degree. For example, female doctors typically marry up (another male doctor or a man of higher status).
    Agree about the homeschooling. We also home school . I have a degree in an arts subject but am able to research the science and mathematics side. Up to a certain level anyway! The amount of people who say ‘so how do you teach MATHS?’ As if only a maths teacher can do this.
    I actually think you’re right that some women with degrees can feel marrying a man without one is not possible… as if they’re somehow beneath them. But most sensible women wouldn’t be like this… in UK (I don’t know about USA and I think you’re there because you write math not maths haha) but in UK plumbers and builders can earn a shed load of money and are v intelligent especially if they own their own business. I have a friend who is a property developer, no degree-he was trying to explain to me about what he does, he has no degree but has learned as much on the job as he would in a lecture hall. I still think that an academic woman can go to university even in the current state of the education system. It very much depends on the university, her personality, if she lives at home or with Catholic friends or not, if shes strong in her faith etc etc….
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    Re: School with Nuns?
    « Reply #16 on: October 23, 2025, 03:12:53 PM »
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    • Quote from: Justinian on October 23, 2025, 02:04:58 PM
    Agree about the homeschooling. We also home school . I have a degree in an arts subject but am able to research the science and mathematics side. Up to a certain level anyway! The amount of people who say ‘so how do you teach MATHS?’ As if only a maths teacher can do this.
    I actually think you’re right that some women with degrees can feel marrying a man without one is not possible… as if they’re somehow beneath them. But most sensible women wouldn’t be like this… in UK (I don’t know about USA and I think you’re there because you write math not maths haha) but in UK plumbers and builders can earn a shed load of money and are v intelligent especially if they own their own business. I have a friend who is a property developer, no degree-he was trying to explain to me about what he does, he has no degree but has learned as much on the job as he would in a lecture hall. I still think that an academic woman can go to university even in the current state of the education system. It very much depends on the university, her personality, if she lives at home or with Catholic friends or not, if shes strong in her faith etc etc….


    I know a lot of sensible women.Yet I do not know a single one, I repeat, a single one who had a university degree and did not marry someone without one.

    Stats bear that up too.

    Marriage rates are plummeting anyway, so if I were a woman aged 18, the wisest thing I would do from a sheer practical point of view would be to not go to university. To best ensure my chances of finding someone. Far more men will marry down then women will marry down.

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    Re: School with Nuns?
    « Reply #17 on: October 23, 2025, 03:55:48 PM »
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    • Quote from: Antonio Jones on October 23, 2025, 06:41:39 AM
    Wondering how many options there are here in the US of a school run by nuns.

    Traditional Catholic, of course.
    I don't see any actual answers.

    I'm pretty sure the SSPX have some teaching sisters, maybe in Idaho. I think there's a CMRI school in the Northwest with nuns. These nuns are in Florida https://www.qasonline.org/ and I think have a second location in Arizona.
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    Re: School with Nuns?
    « Reply #18 on: October 23, 2025, 05:14:28 PM »
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    • Quote from: FarmerWife on October 23, 2025, 01:09:35 PM
    You can get used textbooks that they use in schools for cheap and teach out of that. You can access sample exams and tests online too. You even have online courses.

    Most our books were used, and as for literature anthologies (Norton and so on), those can be picked up at places such as Goodwill for a dollar or two.   The classic anthologies were best, I found that modern grade-level literature books were largely comprised of stories curated to make various politically correct intersectionalities feel good about themselves.

    And while I tried not overly to rely upon them, there were times when I didn't particularly feel like teaching this subject or that, and I'd find a suitable video or two that was in line with our lesson plan, and play that instead.  We would also use math videos to reinforce concepts, some of the lecturers, who are usually young and often from cultures where math proficiency is prized, did a far better job than I ever could have.
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    Re: School with Nuns?
    « Reply #19 on: Yesterday at 01:22:33 AM »
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    • I went to university, earned two master’s degrees, plus took some post graduate classes. Why? By my late 20’s, early 30’s, it was evident that I was not cut out for wife/mother. In an earlier time, I’d have become a teaching sister, probably Dominican. Unfortunately, at the time, the convents were emptying and those who remained sisters were busy tearing off their habits in exchange for polyester pant suits and jeans. They were abandoning the community life to live in apartments. IOW, they had nothing I didn’t already have, lived in apartments, wore regular clothes, had a roommate or two, worked in the community, were too busy with jobs they hadn’t time for daily Mass, communal prayers, following a rule of life, did their cooking, no longer made their clothes, cleaned their own apartments, etc.  
    The big difference was that I had to support myself. In order to do that, I needed those magic pieces of paper declaring my completion of of university, so that’s what I did, worked my way through uni and got the pieces of paper. 
    They don’t make me better or holier than anyone else. They sure won’t get me a place in Heaven!  In fact, my closest friends throughout life have been and are people without “education.” I value common sense over non-sense, practical skills over practically no skills.
    Let’s just say the communist public education plan backfired in my case. 
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    « Reply #20 on: Yesterday at 04:12:49 AM »
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    • Quote from: Justinian on October 23, 2025, 02:04:58 PM
    Agree about the homeschooling. We also home school . I have a degree in an arts subject but am able to research the science and mathematics side. Up to a certain level anyway! The amount of people who say ‘so how do you teach MATHS?’ As if only a maths teacher can do this.
    I actually think you’re right that some women with degrees can feel marrying a man without one is not possible… as if they’re somehow beneath them. But most sensible women wouldn’t be like this… in UK (I don’t know about USA and I think you’re there because you write math not maths haha) but in UK plumbers and builders can earn a shed load of money and are v intelligent especially if they own their own business. I have a friend who is a property developer, no degree-he was trying to explain to me about what he does, he has no degree but has learned as much on the job as he would in a lecture hall. I still think that an academic woman can go to university even in the current state of the education system. It very much depends on the university, her personality, if she lives at home or with Catholic friends or not, if shes strong in her faith etc etc….
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    Re: School with Nuns?
    « Reply #21 on: Yesterday at 04:21:29 AM »
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    • I think it’s sad that the nuns started acting like laywomen, wearing jeans instead of habits. Living in apartments. They may as well not have become nuns but lived a life as unmarried teachers. I agree with others here that the most important job for women if they have children is to be mothers. I don’t agree however, that ‘no women should attend university’. Not all women are called to be mothers, not all women marry, also education is a goal in itself and a society where women are educated will be a superior society to one where they are not. Regardless of whether a mother needs a degree in order to homeschool, a woman will benefit from further study, IF she is suited to it. Plus there are lots of situations where a mother may need to be the breadwinner, even though this role is not meant for a mother under normal circuмstances.  I think God has sent me daughters who don’t want to go to university as He has a sense of humour!! If o had a very academic and driven daughter I probably WOULD push her into the higher education system! Back to the topic of the original post-St Michael’s School is the only SSPX school in the uk. Nuns used to teach there, up until around 2018 I think. Then they all left over a silly disagreement regarding the local bishop being invited to say rosary with the children…and the mother superior, French born Sister Mary Elizabeth, joined the resistance group and now lives in France. I actually think it would have been better had she stayed at the school. The other nuns returned to their respective countries and a few left the religious life. 
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    Re: School with Nuns?
    « Reply #22 on: Yesterday at 04:27:25 AM »
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    • Quote from: MaterDominici on Yesterday at 04:12:49 AM

    Thanks for the response… unfortunately it says ‘content not available in your country’!
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    « Reply #23 on: Yesterday at 04:47:18 AM »
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    • Quote from: Justinian on Yesterday at 04:27:25 AM
    Thanks for the response… unfortunately it says ‘content not available in your country’!
    haha ... it's just a comic about "maths" ... I'll try again


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    Re: School with Nuns?
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    • Quote from: MaterDominici on Yesterday at 04:47:18 AM
    haha ... it's just a comic about "maths" ... I'll try again



    Still no. Am in UK maybe our tyrannical leader Stalin Starmer won’t let us access it!! 
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    • When my parents met, my mother outranked him, literally!  They were in the Navy!  It was 1947, still in the aftermath of WWII. 
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    • Quote from: Justinian on Yesterday at 04:21:29 AM
    I think it’s sad that the nuns started acting like laywomen, wearing jeans instead of habits. Living in apartments. They may as well not have become nuns but lived a life as unmarried teachers. I agree with others here that the most important job for women if they have children is to be mothers. I don’t agree however, that ‘no women should attend university’. Not all women are called to be mothers, not all women marry, also education is a goal in itself and a society where women are educated will be a superior society to one where they are not. Regardless of whether a mother needs a degree in order to homeschool, a woman will benefit from further study, IF she is suited to it. Plus there are lots of situations where a mother may need to be the breadwinner, even though this role is not meant for a mother under normal circuмstances.  I think God has sent me daughters who don’t want to go to university as He has a sense of humour!! If o had a very academic and driven daughter I probably WOULD push her into the higher education system! Back to the topic of the original post-St Michael’s School is the only SSPX school in the uk. Nuns used to teach there, up until around 2018 I think. Then they all left over a silly disagreement regarding the local bishop being invited to say rosary with the children…and the mother superior, French born Sister Mary Elizabeth, joined the resistance group and now lives in France. I actually think it would have been better had she stayed at the school. The other nuns returned to their respective countries and a few left the religious life.

    I see another root cause of your misunderstanding.

    Education is NOT an end in itself like you say. It is to serve a purpose always. Even a liberal arts degree has a purpose for a man who does it.

    I'm sorry that you are still entertaining the "if farcical far fetched scenario happens to a woman, she should be prepared for it" idea. Maybe let it go alright? No one lives like that in relation to other aspects of their lives.

    This is not about keeping women down. Its about what is proper order in conjunction with the reason we are made by God.
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    • Quote from: Justinian on October 23, 2025, 11:06:15 AM
    Hi, yes I am new here and we’re not resistance attendees, we go to a Latin Mass in our diocese and also SSPX on occasion. I wasn’t aware this group was only for resistance people as it says SSPX on description. But I may have misunderstood.

    I don’t agree with the late Bp Williamson about a number of things, including his views on women attending university. Thank you for sharing his letter though. I definitely agree motherhood is incredibly important, I think women should try their best to stay at home with their children if possible, maybe work from home, grandparents may help, but definitely farming children out to strangers whilst young is psychologically harmful.

    Modern universities are ridiculously woke and too many people attend university, people who are actually not university material. I don’t agree that it’s never appropriate for a woman to attend though, I’d look at this on a case by case basis. A highly academic daughter of a friend actually converted to be Catholic through university chaplain AND met her future husband whilst there. She now has a way of making money from home whilst raising her family. I don’t think my daughters want to go to uni. They’re more practical rather than academic anyway. It’s expensive too… another way for the government to try to get young people into debt.

    As for a traditional Catholic school run by nuns I think that would be amazing. I have worked with children previously before having my own. We need female teachers and university is necessary to teach in schools.

    You say you’re not Resistance then why the fixation on their activities and on Moran? Concern for safety is commendable, but shouldn’t it begin where you actually belong within your own institutions? And the Kavanaughs...curious what binds you to them, or is this yet another borrowed cause to justify intrusion into a movement that doesn’t concern you?
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    Re: School with Nuns?
    « Reply #28 on: Yesterday at 12:58:50 PM »
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    • Home Schooling is the most important.  Yes, we have nuns at Our lady of the Sun.  BUT, don't expect nuns to do the disciplining.  Some parents go with these thoughts.  College education is rotten, for they answer to the State and federal.  What is needed is the saving of souls.  Parents are "the" #1 educator.  That is Catholic.  

    I have seen schools run by nuns.  But there are children who are not being disciplined.  Schools have been in the understanding, that if they discipline, the teacher could be sued.  So, the world we are in, is getting worse.  We home schooled our 3.  I did not know what was happening to our children in public school. then tried New order, no good.  We home schooled.  Seton is the best program and goes into college courses as well.

    The #1 need is educating Faith!!  Instill it, so your children can instruct others who have no faith.  Your job is to save souls!!  Reading, math, the main is important, and we can do that.  We are very close to the end of Latter times. We are approaching Church Triumphant.  That is where we need to help our Youth!
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