(01-22-2021 11:59 AM)Big Red Wrote:  

(01-22-2021 09:59 AM)BigChilla Wrote:  

(01-22-2021 07:47 AM)Big Red Wrote:  

(01-21-2021 01:18 PM)BigChilla Wrote:  I said this in another thread...but he legit seems crazy.

As a friend from Naperville who attended Marmion once told me...you aren't from Naperville and attending Marmion if you are someone who doesn't need a kick in the ass.

Why, because Benet is better?

Some people just like Marmion or had family members who where there and/or to Rosary.

Because the public schools (in Naperville) are better than the private schools in every way (if you want to debate wabonsee...fine.)

So the reason kids get sent to a “military” style catholic school is to get a kick in the pants.

Maybe. Or it may be because the parents want a catholic education which none of the Naperville schools will deliver.

I've taught kids who dreamed of going there. You all are acting like its Maury Povich and a scared straight program. Hell, there are a lot of kids from military backgrounds who plan on going into the military who attend Marmion. The ROTC program there is high quality.

There's a lot of reasons why kids go there. Sure, some parents may send their boys there for the structure, but that's absolutely not the majority.

It's a school with a pretty devout alumni base and often families are drawn to those.

Also, if a kid wants to play sports they have more opportunities at a school like Marmion as opposed to either 203 school or any of the 204 schools which are all massive. I mean, if a kid is pretty good at basketball and can play HS ball, he's got a much better shot at playing at Marmion than being one of the 12 best out of about 2,000 boys at Neuqua.

I've also known kids who went to Neuqua who hated it because there are too many kids there and wished they could have gone to a much smaller school.

Are you going to have some kids there who f'd up and got sent there? Sure. Same with Rosary. But that's far from any kind of sizable population there and nothing to make any kind of sweeping generalization upon.

You have some fine anecdotes. But so do we.

Does The subject of this thread seem like the type who needed a kick in the pants? Yes. Does he seem like the type who wanted a catholic education? Or a military education? If yes why didn’t he go to one of those colleges? If football was too easy he certainly would t run from trying to play at NNHS, NCHS, or NVHS.

So I stand by my anecdote. This dude seems like he is a little nuts.