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As long as we are telling old war stories, I have one of my own - very old, from the early 1990s.  In inclement weather, the local junior high would let kids in the lunchroom before classes start.  They could finish homework, read, play games, etc.  Four of them were playing D&D, two of those were my testplayers.  A teacher denounced them by name before the whole school as satanists.  They identified the teacher by name and said "he teaches Young Life", unaware that there could be no such course in a public school, only extracurricular (officially he taught shop).  The four were, in fact, very active Methodist, Presbyterian, an unknown (to me) fundamentalist group, and a nominal Roman Catholic.  The fundamentalist later moved to Dallas where he attended a fundamentalist parochial school which had no difficulty with RPG at all.

I wrote a letter to the editor of the Bonham (didn't print it) and Dallas papers, and the school denied it ever happened.  Both parents of the Methodist were in law enforcement and privately conducted their own investigation without having a supervisor trying to hurry up the process.  They verified the kids' account completely and got their letters published in both.  Attacking a kid's religion in public is child abuse, and should be treated as such, but at the end of the year, the teacher got a "merit increase" in pay. 

And now for something completely different.  If you get mail returned even though postage is sufficient and the address is correct , take it, along with proof the address is correct, to your local postmaster and request it be sent by internal mail.  That is free, directly postmaster to postmaster, involves a paper trail, and so the receiving postmaster has an incentive to make sure it is delivered.  Sorry I forgot about that two days ago.

Paul

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