Raising Kids in Sodom w/ John Henry Spann 

Agree. 8 years as a public school educator.

That's what public school did for me.

I am a Catholic HS teacher and I agree.

@@KappaTheta11 don't call yourself an educator. you're a teacher.

As a student, yes. The last year is just me getting burnt out, recovering, then getting burnt out again and just thank God it’s my last year cause I can’t handle this for much longer

@@bbseal6174 especially the idea of sacrificing mission for numbers.

@@bbseal6174 Super fun conversation. Your qualification is being their parent and responsible for their education.

@@bbseal6174 Right, and it’s not like you can’t research things and find a good home schooling curriculum to use as a tool to help cover things you don’t know about or might forget to cover.

Yes!!

I have a friend who goes to the very first founded Chesterton Academy!

@@jeremydavie4484 I go there currently! What’s his or her name?

@@jeremydavie4484 yeah I’m senior this year, I know Jon pretty well!

I’m the academic dean and a humanities teacher at Chesterton Academy of the Saint Croix Valley in Stillwater, MN. It’s a dream job. What an awesome Catholic school!

Yup

so true

As a father of a St. John Bosco grad, I can testify that Mr. Spann and all the leaders at St. John Bosco Academy are all the “real deal.” God bless them all.

agreed jack

@@jamesharrell3303 The reply only took two years💀

Same here - my 8th grader goes to a rich Catholic school and was showing me a picture of his class and pointing to each of them and telling me about them. He came to this one boy and said, “that’s John, he’s the really Catholic kid” and I said “oh so not many are very Catholic?” (Knowing they weren’t) and he said, “no mom - no one is very Catholic when they are 14, even priests”. Ugh I was so bummed by this bc I try so hard. Although my kids do tell me that they are usually the only ones who know the answers to things in religion class! Yay for that. But -yes- my 5th grader tells me about girls that say they’re lesbians and other girls who say their atheists. Sad- my fifth grader also told me that they’re not allowed to talk about homosexuality because one of the kids has a homosexual parent and they don’t want to offend him.

It’s still better to have them in Catholic school. It’s a good education because they can kick out kids that do really bad things. My son’s school had a kid who stabbed a kids hand and the kid was just suspended. This was in grammar school too. I couldn’t afford to put all my kids in Catholic school so I chose to keep the ones in Catholic high school and took out the ones in grammar school. Worst mistake ever.

We can teach them facts. We cannot teach them faith. True story: At 18, two girls started to leave the house one Sunday. “Where are you going?” “To the mall.” “What about Mass?” “We aren’t going to Mass.” Their parents never went to Mass again.

Church hypocrisy, dodgy pope, ostentatious church furnishing, archaic symbolic rituals and the overall luciferian influence are part of the problem too

The dominant culture is heavily impacting all of us. This is the problem. Instead of doubling down people are ‘going with the flow’. I’m sorry to hear your impressions but I completely believe you.

The Italian Stallion!

Wait a minute, I know this guy!

“When men of God arise, good things happen.” -Timothy Flanders

Good for you, Emily! I was homeschooled through high school and got a great education, but most importantly, got a solid grounding in my faith and built strong relationships with my family. My siblings and parents are still my best friends and as adults, we get together as often as we can. I met my wonderful Catholic husband through my sisters. Good relationships with God and family are the biggest indicators of a happy life. I'm homeschooling my 5 kids and we're just enjoying learning about our individual strengths and interests and learning styles.

My grandchildren are homeschooled. We have a strong homeschool community. There’s wonderful curricula available. The kindergartner is reading on the first semester second grade level. He’s learning to add now. The 9 year old has learned about angles, word problems, polygons, and wonderful things from the online program called the beast academy. She’s taking a writing class and excelling in it. The children are calm and well behaved. My daughter and her husband are catholic but not raised in the faith. They are not regular church goers for whatever reason- they feel the church is not strong on the children’s side. That does not have to be your story. The grandchildren do go to various Bible studies in the community in programs designed for kids. All in all the homeschooling has been a wonderful experience. We are avoiding many of the pit falls of the raising children in Sodom , praise God.

I’m sorry to hear that. Fir our family -so far- it has worked out well.

That’s super important. It seems like parents are either too lax trying too much to be their kid’s friend and won’t lay down the law and enforce rules and discipline or will just do basically what you summarized of “sit down, shut up, and be good. And I don’t trust you. And I’m paranoid of the world.” The kid will probably be more likely to rebel as they just see lots of restrictions and a lot of reactionary paranoia. Obviously given the world today and the duty to protect the soul of one’s child, those restrictions are justified, but like you’re saying if a parent never actually forms his or her child into knowing good values and how to make good decisions and enables them to have opportunities to do that within some parameters, then the kid winds up just going hog wild, indulging every forbidden bad behavior as soon as he or she has the opportunity. You’re awesome for having that perspective!

Bless you! My parents loved me a whole lot as I grew up, and I knew it intellectually, but frequently, the lack of conversation fed feelings of frustration, inferiority, and defensiveness. I'm still working through some of the consequences as I try to get a handle on adulthood.

Dang, I live there and I didn’t know that!

Agreed! My siblings love it there

Can’t tell if that’s a criticism or a compliment haha

And....still thinking what your point actually is 😂

Bahaha

#UniversityofBristol has quite a sizable Catholic chaplaincy but I've not been there since the early 90s, can't speak how it is nowadays ..

so true

I live close to Santa Paula!! I had no idea. Grandchildren are home schooled. I will let my daughter know. Thank you!

In all seriousness, the hybrid homeschool environment and the school that I attend which Mr. Spann teaches at was easily the best thing that ever happened to me. It is an understatement to say that I've grown massively in my understanding of the faith and I've learned to think for myself independently as a human person and not conform to the apathetic sadness and unfulfilling dryness that most teenagers my age experience. As a current first hand product of the hybrid homeschool and classical education, there is nothing I would recommend more to a student in the entire world then that.

@@soggyfries3096 so true

Yeah, Italy is struggling because it’s drifted from its true Catholic self, but it’s still SO deeply Catholic down in its soul. Remember the Anglo (or at least American education system was the product of John Dewey with the aim of basically making good little worker bees for an industrial economy who were just smart enough to do the factory or office work but not smart enough to step outside the matrix.

Being an Italian myself, and being in Quinta Liceo, I can tell you that no, the Italian school system is not good. Why? because the concept is good, but it is so unorganized. If it were organized it would be amazing. Also the lack of actually good teachers does not help tho

If you want REAL men, work on being REAL women first. You're not a finished product either.

I bet it’s great!

Does he have a neck problem?

Yes!! Christendom College is amazing!

No, I don't agree. Putin's intervention can be placed in the concept of the 'Just War' developed by Thomas Aquinas. People who think Putin is evil are, excuse me to say it, people with biased views. "Who hears but one bell hears but one sound". I was converted to Catholicism while I lived in Moscow. Among the french-catholic community, we had people who have been there in Donbass. We prayed for the orphans and people in Donbass. I knew a parishioner who raised funds to help them, and we received news from there. On multiple occasions, starting from 2014, the Ukrainians forces have bombed civilians with heavy artillery and tanks. Some neo-nazi bands are moving around in this region, some are just people who think it's cool to be neo-nazi, some are committing war crimes. These bands are trained for combat with the help of western advisors. Do I need to precise, that corruption is the norm of functioning in Ukraine. Moreover, the borders of this state are completely artificial. The people living in Crimea and in the east of Ukraine are Russians. Why do Ukrainian officials even think they would feel Ukrainians instead of Russians if you bomb them !? I understand the US and oligarchs like Soros who want to turn Ukraine into a NATO vassal, deploying missiles in range of Moscow, St Petersburg, Kazan etc..., all the western part of Russia where the majority of the Russians live - fine. But I really pity these pro-Ukrainians who do not even have a hint of what's really going on. When you're about to be swallowed by a giant beast, you hit first with strength, and it is rightfully that you do so. Then people are surprised, 'oh look Russia is attacking - how dare they, it's evil'. Putin decided the intervention after the Ukrainians, again, started to bomb civilians in Donbass with tanks in late February. His decision bears heavy responsibility, but it makes sense. Why make a local operation in Donbass, when you're going to suffer new sanctions anyway. If the cost is nearly the same, then let's make a big operation to solve the problem once for all, instead of repeating the cycle that began in 2014. Now many of the Ukrainians officials and the neo-nazi are scared, they seek western aid by all cost because they know if Russia wins, they will be put to trial and will have to answers the evidences. They would rather give weapons to any civilian and let the country be subject to chaos and pillaging in hope of a resolution profitable to them, rather than admitting they are defeated. And this what is happening right now. So yes, portraying the other side as evil is a bad idea. All are human beings, created in the image of God for His glory, but all are also subject to weakness and ignorance. God calls us to a relation, so it makes sense by the virtue of Charity that we learn from one another and share our legitimate fears. So the question now is this, do people prefer the simplicity and comfort of portraying Russia as evil and remain in a western mainstream vision of international relations, or are they ready to challenge their bias and take the narrow path of listening to the concerns and worries of other people in the world. Putin made a very great 1 hour speech to justify the reasons of his intervention. Despite being not exhaustive, listening to it is a good start moving in the way of understanding.

It was just at the very beginning when Matt was reading the priest text messages. I have heard a lot of priest and other religious people talk about how Putin is evil and going to hell. This priest did not say that putin was going to hell but I do think that when stated to people with little faith or none they see it as the same. Just my thoughts from talking to secular people is all.

What do you think about NATO encroachment on Russian borders. What do you think about the Russian speaking portion of Ukraine beleaguered by Nazis and the innocent Russian speakers being killed for the last 10 years? What do you think of our own DOD peppering Ukraine with bio we*pon labs? And Russia is evil???

It’s stunning isn’t it?

It really shows how good SJBA is and how much he wanted to work there! And I can confirm it’s as good as he makes it seem

A local jeweler had a billboard with caption "He said yes!" under picture of couple with woman lower than man (head shot but conveys idea the woman is on one knee) and man with hands to cheeks and open mouthed like McCauley Culkin in Home Alone. Made my skin crawl. Wonder how that ad paid off?

@@bobspinelli2847 🤮