Going to a private Catholic high school is no guarantee of getting a good education, as several students of Padua Academy, a girls’ school in Wilmington, Delaware, found out, when boys from Salesianum School, the Catholic boys’ school across town, came over and asked Padua students to sign a petition to end women’s suffrage and videotaped them doing it.
It would seem that not everyone was aware of what women’s suffrage is, as time and again, students gladly signed the petition (video). “Women’s suffrage is really bad,” one is heard to say. “Do you have a pen?”
While the principal, Sister Ann Michele Zwosta, says that Padua students learn about women’s suffrage in women’s history, the class, 450 Women’s Topics and Perspectives, is an elective course.
Salesianum principal Rev. Bill McCandless wasn’t too happy about it.
“I just felt it really wasn’t fair, because they were going there with the purpose of tripping them up,” McCandless said.
The principal also said the amateur producers misled their teacher, went on Padua’s property without permission and may have had a role in distributing the video online. . . .
Once the video surfaced on various Internet sites, alumni and parents began to complain, too, Sister Zwosta said. Some of the girls in the video were embarrassed, she said, and many others weren’t laughing.
“The vast majority of students are furious,” she said. — Wilmington News Journal
Furious? If you can’t laugh at yourself when you make a silly mistake, then the stick is jammed too far up your ass.
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wheatdogg
Apr 03, 2006
Reminds me of those occasional shopping mall surveys to see how many people will agree to the verbatim Bill of Rights.
Jason
Apr 04, 2006
“I just felt it really wasn’t fair, because they were going there with the purpose of tripping them up,†McCandless said.
It wasn’t fair because my kid signed something that they didn’t understand.
AND WE WONDER WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN THIS DAY AND AGE.
Perhaps if you understood what the hell was going on, you’d get by a lot easier.
Joe Mama
Apr 04, 2006
This prank was pulled on “The Man Show” a few years ago, only it was adults who were signing the petition, not Catholic schoolgirls. Stupidity recognizes no age boundaries…
youwontcatchme
Apr 05, 2006
i go to Salesianum and that was the funniest video i have ever seen. The girls of Padua are morons for not knowing what women’s suffrage is
sssss
Apr 06, 2006
I go to Padua and I already knew what suffrage was. WTF they only asked the idiots in the school, I swear.
Marie
Apr 14, 2006
I’ve seen this video – so sad that so many young women are clueless. The smart ones must have been inside studying.
XD
Apr 14, 2006
While I was watching the video, I thought to myself, “OMG WAFBOM, XD ROTFLMAO!^2+1″
Women just manipulate men. Why do they deserve the rights of the men that died for their sakes? The men that made their lights, their homes, and their water system? Why?
twat
Apr 15, 2006
Haha I know people that go to Padua and all of those girls are clueless.
Baby Jesus Buttplug
Jul 28, 2006
Maybe they were too busy learning about how to give proper blowjobs to Jesus. God is a cock evidently, hanging down there. HAHAHA, OUTSIDE OF YOURSELF.
asdfghjklqwerty123
Nov 10, 2006
first of all i was almost positive you have to be 18 to sign a petion
i might be wrong
and because a few girls who havent taken that cours and may not be aware of womens right doesnt mean all of the girls there a morons
also has anyone condidered these girls to be underclassmen without the chance to take that course
and finally has anyone noticed how much time sallies guys have on there hands
bich
Mar 03, 2007
I is in a highshcool n stuff, and we asked some biches and they agreed to help end womens suffrage. they can’t help it, women are for making babies and cooking, not thinking or doning anything other than men.
Jeff
Mar 30, 2007
Is it really that difficult to understand what Women’s Suffrage is? It is a basic idea and it’s sad that these Americans have no idea what they are talking about. I blame the uneducated students, who at the very least, could have refused to sign the petition. Funny video, but also sad at how dumb some people are.
duh!!!!
Apr 19, 2007
i would just like to say, being a Padua Academy Alum that not everyone knows everything. These girls for the most part, were underclassmen ( i know all of them) and i think it is ridiculous that anyone would take this video seriously. First of all there is this little thing called editing where the gentleman of Saliesianum could cut out all the women who refused to sign the petition, i being one of them. And i would also like to point out the many graduates who have moved on to become doctors, lawyers, state officials, accountants, it techs, military personel, and most importantly voters.
Arharh
Apr 22, 2007
It’s not really just about suffrage if you look at a big picture…those girls at padua signed on something they apparently do not know about.
alskjd
Nov 30, 2009
at padua we learn about womens suffrage in our senior year history class. senior year. the majority of the girls interviewed were freshman and sophomores. and I also remember hearing about how many girls were cut out because they refused to sign.
kc
Mar 23, 2010
I think any school that has a sign stating “National School of Excellence” and endorsed by the Department of Education are setting themselves for this kind of thing.
Oh, and I learned what women suffrage meant when I was a freshman in high school that is located in a pretty poor town. Wow.
Anonymous
Mar 25, 2010
wanna hear a joke? padua!
WomenShouldn'TVoteProductions.
Mar 30, 2010
You’re an idiot if you do not know what suffrage is by the time you enter 7th or 8th grade.
bo
Oct 12, 2011
DUMB!
wedxzatyhbvfiol,mj
Nov 27, 2011
what do they think it meant?