A glimpse at a Catholic School

Amy Wellborn shares an incident that happened at the Catholic School her child attends.

Well, the first thing, of course, is the Ed School Kool Aid that’s unfortunately been consumed here, leading the author of the letter to write sentences that are thoroughly emptied of sense. I mean, who even thinks like that: as I gaze out on the great sea of humanity, I’m pondering how our differences make us God’s children, make us unique and give us commonality…

Whatever.

But what struck me here was (in this Catholic school – and not a terrible Catholic school, either) the absence of any words like “wrong” or “sin.” And pardon me, but “intolerance” is such a mealy, squiggly word. I’ve been in the classroom. I can’t imagine for a second every saying to a student bullying another, “Mitch, stop being intolerant of Laura.” I guess we could call it creeping intolerance…every sin eventually will be absorbed under the umbrella of “intolerance.”

I can’t even begin to break down how this has happened or why, but it obviously has, even in Christian settings. Which is particularly odd since Christians are really supposed to derive their moral framework from Scripture, first of all, and this intolerance business, with all of its contemporary implications, just isn’t the way the Judeo-Christian tradition defines human beings’ mistreatment of one another.

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