Federal Street

Strength: The mathematics education was first rate; we were often a full year ahead of local public school students academically. Weakness: Discipline was wholly unfair to the boys. As a girl, I only had to sit on a hallway bench outside of Father Bob's office for several minutes to reflect on my mistakes (mostly fidgeting a lot in class). Making the very same mistakes that I did, my brother and a few other boys were read the riot act and were punished inside the office. Several of the nuns acknowledged the unfairness of punishments for boys but seemed unwilling to point it out the associate pastor. But again, at least the academics at St. Joe's were truly first rate.