Some wise guys went to the Padua Academy with a video camera and a bold idea.They wanted to see if the female students would sign a petition to end women's suffrage. Unfortunately, suffrage is the right to vote. Yes, they were asking young girls to sign a petition to keep themselves from voting.
And it's all online.
Padua describes itself on its site as "where girls with dreams become women of vision." I'm betting there are some Delaware parents who fork over $7,200 a year for their precious Catholic daughters to get a decent education who are asking some very difficult questions for the Poli Sci instructor right now.
I'm not sure what is most disturbing:
- Young girls will sign anything if you have a video camera (though this does explain the phenomenon of Girls Gone Wild)
- Peer pressure is hell
- Catholic schools aren't teaching real science much less political science
- The interweb greatly enhances your ability to look like a dummy (this blog included as exhibit A)
- At least this is better than dropping out
Do you think this is funny? Scary? Disturbing? Indicative of the decline of Western civilization?
That being said, it's not too early to apply. I do, however, feel a lot better about my neice who went to private school and is now studying to be a massage therapist. Yeah, she's going to need trigonometry in her daily life.
3 comments:
The funniest part is the way he keeps repeating, "You're signing a petition to end women's suffrage" again and again while they sign it, just to give them a chance to get what he is saying... and it doesn not register with them at all.
Clearly this is the work of the double negative or some such confusing grammatical gremlin.
Wow...I just say the video and I'm not sure where to begin! I think all 5 of your points are disturbing. I wonder if they thought that women were suffering and they thought that was a bad thing. I have no idea...but it is sad.
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