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Conflict divides St. Mary's Nylon issue: Sides accuse each other of overreacting -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Ted Slowik STAFF WRITER PLAINFIELD — Some parents and youth ministry leaders at St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church are saying a family overreacted by confronting parish officials and contacting police after eighth-graders in a confirmation class were told to put on nylon stockings as an exercise during a retreat. Some other parents say the pastor overreacted by expelling the family's two sons from the parish school because their father violated a parental code of conduct by being too "intrusive, inflammatory or overbearing." People on both...

See This Thread for full story or click on link. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/768397/posts If I messed up in Creating this Prayer request, Please forgive me, as I do not post very often. Thank You I am asking for prayers for the Gianni Family. They are searching for a new Church, and two new schools, a Grade school, and a middle school. They have been EXPELLED from the Parish, and their two Children expelled from the Parochial School. Thank You for Praying for them in this difficult time, and May God Bless You.

(Plainfield-AP, Apr. 21, 2002 10:35 PM) _ Schools in Plainfield have adopted a strict privacy policy that actually doesn't allow honor roll students to be named on its website. School officials say they are bowing to the wishes of parents who insist on privacy. Some of the parents are worried that the hoopla surrounding honor roll status might make their children targets of predators. Plainfield Memorial School Principal Sheryl Kempain says parents sign forms indicating how their child may be identified in print and on the website. Most agree to just a first name and first initial of the last...