Re: Trivial meanderings: catalogs received 11-28-05

In article <memo.20051129203449.2184A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
prd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Paul Dormer" writes:

> (RI is religious instruction, a required subject in state
> schools in the UK back in the sixties. Don't know what they do
> now when a high percentage of the pupils are likely to be
> Muslim, Hindu or Sikh.)

A friend is a local teacher. ISTR him saying it was "Comparative
Religion". I'll try to check tomorrow at the SF group meeting.
--
Andrew Stephenson

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