Oct 16, 2022

Homophobia, please be careful

This school ruined my life. After attending the school in second grade to seventh (graduated 2017), I was deeply disturbed and hurt. The curriculum wasn't the problem but the push of religion and toxic ideas. Although it is a Catholic school, that gives no one the right to teach homophobia. In seventh grade when we had our 'birds and bees' talk, they taught us of only chastity and what a proper relationship was. Women had their place and men ruled over them. It made me feel weak and at the time I though they were right. The teachers, Ms.O'Hara and Principal Ms.Oberndorf taught us that we were wrong to have desires and thoughts of someone of the same sex. They preached that it was a phase and how we terrible it would be. I remember going to the washroom feeling sick and believing I was broken. It stuck with me and took years of therapy to recover, something I still struggle with. I want to warn any parents thinking of sending their children there that this is not a safe space. They don'