[Daphne – Schools are not there to produce the best students, but the best men and women. In any case, the ‘best students’ are not necessarily at St Aloysius and your statement is inherently insulting to all girls. When it common knowledge now that girls are performing much, much better than boys, it seems to me obvious that the best students are probably at a girls’ school. But they’re probably at the independent schools nowadays, anyway.]

I think we’ve got a candidate for third place after “Mintoff” and “rikotta”.

I come from a middle class family, and I gained my way to Saint Aloysius’ College, (got the grades needed etc). I also represented the students in the Sixth Form Council, so I admit I have an insight to what the administration of the school is up to and what the students’ expectations are and the actual “product of the school”.

SAC gave me the opportunity to further develop what I’ve learnt / the values instilled by my family (and I do not come from a pampered environment). There are a lot of intelligent and critically minded people, who do not just endorse the name, thus the ‘status’ of Aloysians but gain it. As to the ‘espit de corps’, I believe the new initiatives taken by the council and administration prove the unity and teamwork described above.

On a final note: not all students internalise this, and obviously it is up to each and every student to build up his/ her own personality molded on what the school teaches, but since we all have our individualistic opinions and beliefs one cannot generalise and state that the doing or wrong doing of a person (depending on your opinion of him/her) makes up for all the students who attended or still attend SAC.

With all due respect, your negative attitude towards these people is harming your party itself. Countless Nationalists are complaining over these derogatory comments.

[Daphne – ‘My party’. I am not a party leader or a politician. ‘Countless Nationalists are complaining over these derogatory comments’. I almost certainly don’t like them either, so the feeling is probably mutual. Also, I am not an elected politician so I don’t give a stuff what the people who don’t vote for me think. I have readers, not electors. Please understand the difference. Also, do read my column in The Malta Independent tomorrow morning about how Malta is more Middle Eastern than British when it comes to social culture and freedom of expression. And it’s complaining about, not complaining over.]

As for SAC people not being important, well, they have been taking decisions that affect your life for about 30 years now. On the other hand, ‘Edwardians’ are sitting tight right now waiting for the goverment to announce taxes, new powerstations, etc. Seems pretty important to me.

[Daphne – ‘SAC’: you care so much about your old school that you can’t even be arsed to write its name down. Also, it taught you so well that you think power station is one word. The culture in schools, the way they shape their pupils, what those pupils end up doing, and swallows which don’t make a summer are very complicated issues and former pupils of St Aloysius who are touchy about it just prove my point (whatever it was). I don’t give a damn when people take St Dorothy’s Convent apart. I’m quite happy to do it myself. I never said that ‘SAC people’ are not important. I would never say anything like that. That’s your chip talking. An Old Edwardian who took no decisions that affected our lives – except for getting us into the European Union and then negotiating Eur 1.2 billion for Malta last February AFTER resigning, that is: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130410/local/gonzi-defends-richard-cachia-caruana-s-severance-package.465018 ]

Just a quick reminder, at St Edwards you get in according to your wealth, at SAC you get in according to your grades. Not so ‘mummy’s boy’ is it now?

[Daphne – ‘At St Edwards you get in according to your wealth’. Bollocks. Anybody can go there if their parents stop smoking for the duration. ‘At SAC you get in according to your grades’ – more bollocks. That’s only with sixth form, and even then I remember there being some exceptionally dull-witted individuals in 1980-82, whose parents had obviously pulled some strings, though of course I shan’t mention any names as it wouldn’t be fair. Also, grades and IQ are not interchangeable.]

[Daphne – You are a very poor ambassador for the school, I’m afraid. The whole point of a school is to teach children what they can’t/don’t learn at home. Thinking, speaking and writing effectively in an internationally-effective manner should be topmost among the requirements. Too many St Aloysius boys think, speak and write ‘Maltese’, and I don’t mean the language, either. I would never have sent my sons there, and in fact, I didn’t, though one of them was there at sixth form, as was I. And you are probably not a St Aloysius boy anyway, because you’ve given me a girl’s name in your email. Ah, I see – you’re probably at sixth form there. Not the same thing at all. It’s the years 9 to 16 that make the man, not 16 to 18.]

A typical Mintoffjan

[Daphne – They are not. Why the past tense, when they are still alive? There is nothing remotely ‘mummy’s boy’ about them. The fact that they went to that school does not make them mummy’s boys. Mummy’s boys are made at home, not at school.]

You have kids? wow, there is hope for everyone to get laid after all.

[Daphne – That I ‘have kids’ is one of the better-known facts about me, and has been for the last two decades or so. That you don’t know even this speaks volumes. Standards at St Aloysius must have really fallen. Yes, there is indeed hope for everyone to get laid. If that were not the case, ugliness and stupidity would have been bred out of the population. But you do have to ask a girl out first. I wish you luck.]

[Daphne – A great advert for the school, if you are telling the truth: you can’t communicate in English, your Maltese spelling is rubbish and you don’t know what capital letters are. You are not helping matters.]