{"id":4434,"date":"2005-08-04T22:46:06","date_gmt":"2005-08-04T22:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/08\/the-school-is-cursed.html"},"modified":"2005-08-04T22:46:06","modified_gmt":"2005-08-04T22:46:06","slug":"the-school-is-cursed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/08\/the-school-is-cursed.html","title":{"rendered":"The school is cursed&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to teach at a school that had so many problems, one of the teachers was convinced it had been built over a native American burial ground and was haunted for that very reason. New principals every year, soap-opera drama of the highest degree&#8230;and I see that it hasn&#8217;t ended.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabays10.com\/thismorning\/thismorning_article.aspx?storyid=17148\">The principal, a religious brother, was arrested in a park Thursday. For the usual.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.local6.com\/news\/4812801\/detail.html\">More including a statement from the Orlando diocese.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lakeland peeps, please feel free to let me know what&#8217;s going on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been discussed here quite often &#8211; this sort of thing must be a powerful compulsion &#8211; this town is not large. It&#8217;s not tiny, but it&#8217;s not large, either. To engage in this kind of behavior, when you&#8217;re the principal of the only Catholic high school in the area, speaks of tremendous folly and an imprisoned spirit.&nbsp; This school has had enough problems over the past 15 years &#8211; to deal it another blow like this is selfish beyond belief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to teach at a school that had so many problems, one of the teachers was convinced it had been built over a native American burial ground and was haunted for that very reason. 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