Take it for what it is. For what it's worth, technically it was 7th grade that I still didn't know what a verb was. Barring you talking to my parents, or finding old tests, or a time machine to watch 7th grade me trying to learn these concepts, I imagine we are at an impasse. I guess it wouldn't help if I swore on a bible, would it? At least not with how you apparently perceive my willingness to tell the truth.
I would imagine, that for every person who would have a hard time believing that there could possibly be a catholic school that prioritized religion classes over concepts regarding the english language, there are just as many who have a hard time believing that the catholic church would ever cover for pedophiles. But that's just me.
First of all, I didn't say you lied. You may very well believe what you typed. I'm critiquing the falsity of the interpretation from your self-described "sour" viewpoint. And now, you are just throwing crap against the wall. This has nothing to do with covering for pedophile priests. You are just evoking more things that trigger your sour viewpoint, and people's emotions, and really you are just generalizing like a soured, hater would. I mean it; you are acting like a hateful person. If we were talking about Muslim schools, and you said something like, "Oh yeah, those people are the one's with terrorist," we'd know you were a generalizing bigot who didn't have a credible point to stand on, so you make associations with emotionally charged irrelevancies instead. So how is it different when we are talking Catholic education and you invoke a significant but totally unrelated scandal. Pathetic, irrelevant emotionalism is all that is.
There are a lot of reasons your story is not plausible, none of which are affected by child abuse. Not only does it not ring true of Catholic education, but it does not ring true of any education. If you really didn't know what a verb was by 7th grade, whose fault is that? You want us to believe that all your teachers were incompetent, and worse, derelict? Your school didn't use textbooks with lessons on verbs; it used the Bible not only in religion class, but in English class, and math class, and PE? You suggest that I don't believe you due to an inability to believe there are bad Catholic schools, but that's not the problem here. Of course it's possible there are bad schools, and I don't deny it. But if you really went to a terrible school, where were your parents, who apparently cared enough for your education to send you to private school? They didn't notice in 4 years that you were an ignoramus of basic grammar? They never helped you with your homework to discover your illiteracy? They didn't teach you what a verb was themselves when they noticed? They paid for a private school for 4 years but didn't notice it was inferior to the free public education? They cared enough to send you to a private school but not enough to noticed when they still had to read you the bedtime stories when you were 11? Uh huh, yeah, sure. It's the school's fault, according to you; yet none of the other students' parents noticed over the same 4 year span that their children were grammatically retarded? Nobody stepped in when the whole 4th grade failed the standardized tests in English grammar and reading? The whole school and all the parents were too busy covering for the pedophile priests to notice their children couldn't parse as sentence? Or would you have us believe it was just you who didn't know what a verb was? Were all the teachers out to make sure you and you alone couldn't tell what a verb is? The other kids had a text book with lessons, but you were made to sit in the corner drooling on the Bible? They fooled your parents by assigning you no homework, gave you straight A's in reading, and fabricated your standardized tests so nobody would see your ineptitude? If none of this is plausible, and if it is true that you didn't know what a verb was by 12 years old, maybe you need to own some personal responsibility instead of blaming not only a whole school, but a whole school system (which you do by generalizing "the whole christian private school thing").
No, I don't need a time machine to figure out what is true and what is sour.