Christian Brothers - Methods of Teaching 1
From the Christian Brothers Instruction Manual:>
Brother Thomas Cuthbert Ford is a former math teacher at Bergen Catholic High School who lives quietly in a Hackensack apartment and performs modest charity work for his religious order. But Ford is a brutal man who beat five boys at a orphanage. Ford stands out in the memories of former residents of the Orphanage, particularly for the way he beat a youngster named Edgar Hartery with a belt in a shower room. "What he did to that young fellow was brutal. There's no doubt about it, It's certainly child abuse. Everybody remembered what Ford did. This is not corporal punishment. This is cruel." said one former resident.
But lawyers say Ford's actions were not criminal but forms of corporal punishment, a common practice at Catholic institutions. His victims remember him as a cruel man whose brutality stood out at the Orphanage. Hartery said "Ford just nailed me with the thick black belt, he hit me everywhere. Across the back, the arms, the legs, the whole body. When he stopped, he just walked away. The other boys in the shower room were petrified."
Victim Ronald Piccard, described Ford as "a coldblooded animal" who blackened his eyes, bruised his face, "and seemed to enjoy it."
Brother Thomas Cuthbert Ford is a former math teacher at Bergen Catholic High School who lives quietly in a Hackensack apartment and performs modest charity work for his religious order. But Ford is a brutal man who beat five boys at a orphanage. Ford stands out in the memories of former residents of the Orphanage, particularly for the way he beat a youngster named Edgar Hartery with a belt in a shower room. "What he did to that young fellow was brutal. There's no doubt about it, It's certainly child abuse. Everybody remembered what Ford did. This is not corporal punishment. This is cruel." said one former resident.
But lawyers say Ford's actions were not criminal but forms of corporal punishment, a common practice at Catholic institutions. His victims remember him as a cruel man whose brutality stood out at the Orphanage. Hartery said "Ford just nailed me with the thick black belt, he hit me everywhere. Across the back, the arms, the legs, the whole body. When he stopped, he just walked away. The other boys in the shower room were petrified."
Victim Ronald Piccard, described Ford as "a coldblooded animal" who blackened his eyes, bruised his face, "and seemed to enjoy it."
posted by The Knitter | Saturday, September 03, 2005
4 Comments:
Brother Ford was my math teacher for 4 years in the early 90s. He was tough, fair and by far one of the best teachers that I have ever had. He could teach math to a monkey, and proved that with myself and a few of my classmates on more than one occasion. The "crimes" that you speak of happened more than 50 years ago, this man has more than made up for them in the past 5 decades
Training To Be A Christian Brother
(From The Christian Brothers Basic Training Manual)
Start with a cage containing five Christian Brothers novices. In the cage, hang a banana on a string and put stairs under it. Before long, one of the novices will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the Banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the novices with cold water. After a while, another novice makes an attempt with the same result - all the novices are sprayed with cold water. Continue until, when another novice tries to climb the stairs, the other novices try to prevent it.
Now, turn off the cold water.
Now, remove one novice from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new novice sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his horror, all of the other novices attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted. Next, remove another of the original five novices and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm. Again, replace a third original novice with a new one. The new one makes it to the stairs and is attacked as well.
Two of the four novices that beat him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs, or why they are participating in the beating of the newest novice.After replacing the fourth and fifth original novices, all the novices which have been sprayed with cold water have been replaced. Nevertheless, no novice ever again approaches the stairs.
Why not?
"Because that's the way it's always been in the Christian Brothers."
Br. Ford has always been a vicious child beater, It started in the 1950s, continued through the 60s, 70s and 80s. If he didn't beat you in the 90s, thank the members of the American Trial Lawyers Association for suing the shit out of the Church. He got me in 1984. Look at this fine reminiscence from the 1970s from another stupid admirer of Brother Ford:
http://www.bigscoopsweeneychicago.com/backhomechapter9.html
You will notice Br. Ford had a strong liking for his strop over a very long period of time, and yes he had it in 1984 too. I wonder if it was the very same strop he used to whip the wet, naked, orphans in Canada?
I had Brother Ford for a teacher for one year in the early seventies.He was a bully and a sadist. I wish he could have been caught and stopped earlier. To admire this man is to be oblivious to the obvious deviant sociapath he was.
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