samaritan

A Catholic school in Preston, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia with a high Muslim population to the point where the actual Catholics don't go to school on Islamic holidays due to the decline in attendence.
A school where the dodgy teachers only last 3 months, to get some experience in their first year out of teacher's college, before having a mental breakdown and moving on to greener pastures (even if they are rolling across them in straightjackets).
A school which spends money on things like self promotion when there is nothing of value to promote (see the recently decommissioned purple and yellow "Samaritan tram" as a case in point). Despite the fact that the school oval is an oblong and the basketball court has no basketball rings.
A school which spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a lift for disabled students, got the archbishop in to bless it, and saw the only disabled student leave the school.
A school that tried to enforce uniform standards and got the response "Sir, are you trying to make this like a rich school or sumfink?" No child, that's impossible...

Samaritan, pretension is our aim!

Helpline that you can phone when you are at risk of ending it all. An ear to talk to when you have things bothering you that you couldnt tell another living soul.

A Christian School, with muslim lebanese in abundance. Pretentiously spend their money on big purple trams, which like the students are slow and know only one direction

Another name for someone who selflessly helps others.
This term originates from the parable told by Jesus in the Bible about a Samaritan (a man from a country called Samaria) who helps out a Jewish man who is ambushed by theives and left to die. This was all the more selfless of an act considering that the Jewish and Samaritan people in those times usually did not associate with each other. This story was told in response to a question concerning the scriptural mandate to "love thy neighbor as thyself". According to the story, a man asked "Who is my neighbor?" and the moral of the parable is that everyone is really your neighbor (meaning you should help anyone you see in need).
Today a Good Samaritan is usually someone who goes out on a limb to help others, even if they are complete strangers.

When someone intervenes in a situation and makes things worse. For example, you are in a store and it's suddenly taken over by robbers. Instead of surrendering or stopping the robbers, you offer to help them rob the store. That would be a bad samaritan, a very bad samaritan.

Someone who trying to be helpful, causes more trouble.

He is the man who helps anyone in distress. His areas of "good Samaritan" expertise are rescuing kitty cats from fire escapes, fetching items off top shelves in grocery stores, digging young women's cars out of snow banks AND letting the bad drivers of the world know when they make an error on his road...(not on his watch, Sister!!!)

His uniform of choice are his throw-back, green&yellow track pants and a t-shirt depicting the Joker. (black puffy vest is optional)

When Captain Samaritan isn't out making the world a better place, he can be found in the gym rockin' and shockin' it, on his sofa watching hockey/home reno shows with a libation, OR cramming his face with all you can eat fishy! one day the world will erect a statue of this superb specimen of a man... in the meantime, he will continue to do good deeds and take it one day at a time!