Just read your contribution to the Site, and I am most surprised., Have you not been reading the Australian Newspapers over the years, they are a very fine source of information., I have been in your country many times and Like Ireland and the rest of the World, these ”Crazy People were allowed to Look after Orphans, and teach school the World Over, – Hiding under the Banner of the Catholic Church, Great Hiding Place for all sorts who Gravitate to Professions which give them access to our weakest.,

I only met one CB who really was a Gentleman, Each and every other one was a Deviant., – Thats my Story.

Count yourself lucky that you had’nt my upbringing, and that yours was pretty Rosy., Good Luck,

Maitiu

They may have started out with the laudable intention of providing education to the poor but they degenerated into something reprehensible. Even where there was no sexual abuse children were routinely physicaly and mentally abused by these men, whilst those in charge allowed it to happen.

By the way I’m English and went to one of their schools in England.

Hope Things are Good on the Indian Continent, I will go back there one day and catch up,

Maitiu

I agree with you to the extent already stated by me in the last post

“Some who joined the CB, did so, because it was their only salvation.

Obviously, the CB were not very selective about who they took in.”

My previous post was too long, so I left out a few things.

1. By and large, they were a frustrated lot.

2. They openly indulged in favoritism, generally based on the status of their parents.

3. They openly showed their disdain towards the Indian culture (of course there were exceptions, as mentioned in 2.)

4. At least in my days, they were usually good in English Literature, music and sports.

5. They were pretty bad in Math, Physics and Chemistry. Local teachers had to used for these subjects.

If fact, the nutty Principal, referred to in the previous post, made the fatal error of trying to teach us math in class XI.

That left him horribly exposed to ridicule. Too often, I had
to point out a better solution.

6. For those of us who got into the prized institutes/colleges, the credit is largely due to the local teachers.

I am particularly indebted to Mrs. Lyall and Mr. Pyarelal Shah.

7. The saying “Spare the rod …” was extended to the point of sadism.

8. They were fiercely protective of their fellow Brothers, even those who erred grossly.

To expound on the second point, they were favorably inclined towards parents who

a) were Christians

b) held important bureaucratic or political posts especially toward royalty.

c) led a westernized life style

There were exceptions like Br. Foley and Br. Brendan MacCarthaigh.

Ravindra

I never met any of the Gifted ones, only the Nutters and the Molesters, usually they came as one and the same person, Two in one so to speak. Are there many of them left in India in these times ? I spent one year in India way way back in 1965 and enjoyed it immensely. I got back again some years later but only on a short visit. Calcutta Madras and Bombay were pretty Cool, but not in the todays meaning of the word.

Cheers,.

Suggest you have a look at another site called ” Bock the Robber ” and type in Memories of a Violent Teacher on the top Right search box.,

Happy Reading

maitiu

Some were gifted, some were mere ornamentation, and some were nut cases.

Some who joined the CB, did so, because it was their only salvation.

Obviously, the CB were not very selective about who they took in.

Most of the people defending the CBs, are actually defending their own prestige.

If there were any sexual aberrations at our time, we were not openly aware of them.

There were some whispers, but they could have been just that.

I won’t take any names here, but I lost a year because a fellow classmate accidentally pulled down a lamp shade.

His intention was to take the bulb out, shake it to break the filament.

He was standing on a rolled up mattress, to reach the lamp shade.

He lost his balance, and the shade came down.

All of us, the class XI guys, were horrified.

The consequences could be terrible, because the Principal was a nut case.

I suggested that we just leave the shade on the floor and feign ignorance.

Unfortunately, the majority was of the opinion that the lamp shade should be thrown out of bounds.

The idiot who brought down the shade, was too scared to go out of the dorm to the sheds at night.

So I accompanied him. The lampshade was dispatched from a door way in the sheds, in the near proximity of the boiler.

What ensued was a witch-hunt. The idiot and I were expelled. That was just before our SC exams.

You want to verify this ?

Talk to Br. Brendan MacCarthaigh, who is presently at St. Joseph’s, Kolkata.

The loss of a year, was bad enough; the rumors that went around were devastating.

Cheers/ Maitiu

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