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1963 Catholic Schools were NOT integrated!!


I find it completely repugnant how Hollywood continues to insist on ignoring the truth when it doesn't serve their insane agenda of trying to make issues where none existed before! I'm a Catholic who was brought up in an all Catholic neighborhood with two Catholic schools to choose from to go. I went to Sacred Heart on South Orange Avenue in Newark, NJ 07102 and from 1966 when I started 1st grade until 1972 when our school which was my grade (6th) got our first non-white classmate. I can't speak about how my schools families thought nor can I speak to how the nuns teaching might have thought other than those same nuns chose to ignore the "No Corporal Punishment" rule set down by Vatican II. I still got hit with hands, rulers, and yardsticks because nuns are by far THE WORST HUMANS TO EVER BE ALLOWED TO DEAL WITH CHILDREN...LET ALONE TRY TO TEACH THEM ANYTHING!!! They wouldn't pass a public school teachers requirements to teach even if solely based on mental condition.

And if it makes readers feel better...my Catholic HS Seton Hall Prep in South Orange, NJ (at that time. Several years after I graduated, it was moved off the campus to make more room for the University's needs and now resides in a *beep* area of West Orange, NJ) was fully integrated including non Catholics which I thought was the most strange thing ever for a Catholic school. NEVER ONCE WAS THERE ANY RACIAL CONFLICTS OR TENSIONS. We simply liked each other or didn't but for no reason other than bullies are *beep* and typically jocks. While the nicer kids are what would be now called freaks, geeks, etc. and if any of the ALL MALE school I went to had same sex feelings...nobody I knew of or heard of had them. We were just trying to figure out the girls from the three ALL FEMALE Catholic High Schools in my area when we mixed for dances and other extracurricular activities. We even had to bring in school girls for the football teams cheerleader squad and flag squad. Our terrible marching band was all from the school, all boys, and we were awful. LOL I think we were the only school marching band that got booed by both sides of the field every time we came out at halftime to try and play. What ONE song did we ruin? Jesus Christ Superstar! Kind of appropriate I thought then and still think now.

Bottom line is the integration time frame is very wrong in this movie. Also...NONE of us grade school kids EVER heard or said the word "*beep*". Only from adults. High school from 1974-1978 I rarely heard the word and only began using it around age 16-17. How different and severely *beep* up the world is today.

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