“I went to a Catholic school where a rumor had been passed down to each class about a nun who murdered a bunch of people, like 30 years ago...”

Warning: This post discusses sexual assault, sexual assault of minors, violence, and drug use. Please read at your own discretion.

"Well, bless the teacher, because a week later the school brought in a damn LAWYER to talk to us all about harassment and the consequences. Needless to say, not many people knew about this afterwards as it was quickly swept under the rug, but it stopped the boys for the rest of the year, for the most part."

"The kid who slept next to where we removed the sheet rock patch went home a year later with a $3 million settlement and asbestos poisoning. Instead of updating the building and fixing the problem, the university spent millions of dollars on a new chapel building."

"Third grade: Teacher tied a kid to his chair and taped his mouth shut because he wouldn't sit down and shut up. 

Eighth grade: The boys and girls had separate gym classes, so while one was in gym, the other was in math. The girls walked into math class one day to see a kid on the floor in the corner of the room, literally caged in by school desks. Don't know what he did, but when he tried to straighten out one of his legs and one of the desks tipped over, the nun (she was built like a linebacker) dragged him out of his 'prison' and literally threw him out the door and across the hall."

"Fast forward to students cutting into a still living fish that started flopping everywhere as soon as they were cut into, and spraying blood on some of the students. It was a mess, and may have been the reason several of those kids were vegetarian after that day."

"For anyone who has held a cricket ball, they're a lot heavier and harder than a baseball. Josh's dad spent four days in the hospital, and Josh never got to use his brand-new high-end gaming PC."

"The Keepers on Netflix details the whole thing and how justice was never served. Coincidentally, the school shut down the year that the program aired on Netflix. Obviously, this didn’t happen to me personally, but it’s all one giant horror story."

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