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Entry: Taking Back Our Children Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/taking_back_our_children#4746 Post contents: Yep, those nuns were (and are tough). Now, back to a little history lesson (which I got because I like to read about the Irish). Nuns were quite busy teaching Irish girls. Then the parishes noticed that Irish girls and women as a rule had more education than Irish boys and men. Also Irish men tended to be unruly, and not good job prospects (It was the time of NINA "No Irish need apply", and the behavior of the Irish themselve was part of the reason). So the put the boys in with the girls, and nuns were instructed to tame the boys to the point that they coul do what they were told by a person of authority, and thus be able to hold down a job. Perhaps if there had been more male teachers around there would have been no need for it, but they did not seem to want the job. Sent at: 2008 10 07