Mommathon

I was waiting for Colm to get out of class the other day and since I was a little early I picked up a newspaper to read while I was waiting. The paper was the school newspaper from Rockhurst High School. The front page was a whole article about how rampant cheating is at the school, how students are cheating, why students are cheating and the ways teachers are helping kids cheat with or without even realizing it (the teachers were even called lazy at one point in the article). Then I turned the page and there was an article about how a student had gotten trampled when the junior boys raided/rushed the “senior staircase”. It happened once, they were told not to do it again, but they did it anyways. There was a picture accompanying the article which looked like it was pure chaos. This is a school that most of the men in Sean’s family have attended and that my two younger brothers attended as well. This school has a reputation of being a great Jesuit school with strong academics and incredibly supportive and active alumni. As a parent, however, it looks to me like the kids are running the place. I have heard people say negative things about Rockhurst and how uncontrollable they can be at games and such and I always blew it off when people said things like that. I think I am beginning to understand where they are coming from. I hope the administration can get things straightened out. I am sure it is still a good school, but it seems to me like there are some high schoolers that need to be put in their place, some administrators who need to lay down the law and some parents who need to take action as well.