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I thought I knew about my friends' and classmates' religions. In a residential military school during a world war religious customs surfaced frequently. However, upon returning to South Bend and the customs I had learned before we moved to Los Angeles, when I had attended Saint Mary's...
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| Published in | The South Bend tribune |
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| Format | Newspaper Article |
| Language | English |
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South Bend, Ind
South Bend Tribune Corporation
17.12.2009
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| Summary: | I thought I knew about my friends' and classmates' religions. In a residential military school during a world war religious customs surfaced frequently. However, upon returning to South Bend and the customs I had learned before we moved to Los Angeles, when I had attended Saint Mary's College's first preschool class and also Marquette School's kindergarten class, I realized that there was so much more to learn. Classes were exciting, informational and of great value in promoting harmony and understanding among students. Then, one day we were notified the classes had been discontinued. The reason? Some of South Bend's "know-it-all busybodies" did not approve of comparative religion classes being taught in our public schools. We had just ended a world war fighting for freedoms of speech and religion and a few people, who to my knowledge had never monitored our classes or agenda or heard the eloquent ad-lib or prepared presentations of fifth-grade students, decided to leave students with a void in their lives. |
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