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[quote=Anonymous]Part of the experience that a student has at a school has to do with how they internally receive what’s going on around them.

I was non-Catholic, Christian faculty at a Catholic school. The Catholic elements of the school day mostly jibed with my beliefs and didn’t stand out in an obtrusive way. I did, however, quietly roll up and store a poster of the pope, and I kept the rosaries I received in a desk drawer. I didn’t love the way sex ed topics were taught, but that was maybe two days of the year. If I had been atheist, I think the experience would have been much harder, especially as prayer was a regular part of the day at opening bell, dismissal, and during religion class.

I wish I had better understood before taking the job that there was a Catholic community at the school that I just wasn’t part of. I didn’t see my colleagues at the local parish on weekends. I didn’t have a long history in the same neighborhoods, churches, and volunteer activities that my students and colleagues participated in. That can make for a little more work to break into existing social groups.[/quote]

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