For my story, I'd really like to have my male character be a Catholic school teacher and layperson in 1933. But is this inconceivable? Were virtually all Catholic school educators in 1933 made up of nuns, monks, and priests only?
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For my story, I'd really like to have my male character be a Catholic school teacher and layperson in 1933. But is this inconceivable? Were virtually all Catholic school educators in 1933 made up of nuns, monks, and priests only?
Thanks!
Here is a completely different experience -which shows that you can make things up if you wish -
Over in England, I went to Catholic infant and grammar schools in the 1940s onwards. While the head teacher was a nun, in both schools, about threequarters of the staff were female lay teachers, both married and unmarried.
Boys left at the age of seven and went on to be taught by the dreaded (!) Christian Brothers, where there would be science/physics teachers or other specialists who would be male lay teachers.
Thanks, Annie, that's a great idea. I might just go that route. Do you happen to know if your uncle coached only boys, or were girls on the basketball team also?
Lay teachers in Catholic education are a relatively new development, definitely post Vatican II.
There were entire Catholic orders of nuns whose vocation was teaching, usually grad-school and jr. high kids. They picked the meanest nuns possible to do this.
High School could be taught by lay teachers or priests or monks or brothers. (Brothers and monks are different.)
Girls high school into the 1960's was also taught by Sisters, usually connected to a Convent. Boys were taught by priests or brothers (and yep, not the same) but being taught by monks would be very rare. Part of becoming a monk is to seperate from the world, hard to do if you're teaching high school.
For my story, I'd really like to have my male character be a Catholic school teacher and layperson in 1933. But is this inconceivable? Were virtually all Catholic school educators in 1933 made up of nuns, monks, and priests only?
Thanks!