To: Dayuhan who wrote (32931 ) 3/21/1999 11:30:00 AM From: nihil Respond to
As I said, my schools were steeped in discrimination. The kids themselves were not much concerned. I recall Fred Schaeffer being sent to pick up the daily mimeographed absentee sheet in 5th grade and our being told that he was different from us --- a Catholic. Seemed all right to me, except he played a C melody sax instead of an E-flat alto or B-flat tenor like normal people (what did I know about soprano, baritone, and bass saxes then!). We also were told to stay away from the grounds of the club next door which was Jewish. I don't know if we would have been told to stay away from the grounds of a Methodist club next door. The kids were pretty civilized, although ignorant, I thought. We often discussed the unperceived distinctions that sometimes drove our teachers and parents wild. We despised being grouped on monday into groups based on where we went to Sunday School, I so much as a minority, that I often tried to be sick on Monday.
