I graduated from St. Thomas Academy in 1984, and while I appreciate Tom Bartel’s observations on the benefits of private schools [“Is Private School Right for You?”, August], I cannot get past the fact that for four years I wasted my time taking mandatory and contradictory religion and military classes in which the primary goal was clear: conformity. As my nephew recently said on his way out the door, after a dreadful freshman year at STA filled with priests, haircuts, neckties and military inspections; “They may teach you about Martin Luther King, but they don’t want you to be anything like him.”
Arnie Hamel
Minneapolis
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