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Diplomacy and debate are subjects that two Catholic schools are brushing up on this fall after some hot-button issues rattled students, parents, and administrators alike.

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  • Regina High School — Iowa City, Iowa
  • Regina High School — Harper Woods, Michigan
  • Regina High School — South Euclid, Ohio
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 said it would review its dress code after barring an Islamic student from campus because she wore a hijab, the Muslim head scarf.

"The issue of wearing a head scarf to school has generated much discussion and brought to the forefront issues that are much broader than the adherence to a dress code," Sister Maureen Burke, S.N.D., principal of the 270-student girls' school Girls' School was a single by Paul McCartney and his former band Wings.

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Lee Inkmann, one of the women, said O'Hara's principal told her their situation would "confuse other children, and that gay unions are in conflict with Vatican teachings," the Eugene Register-Guard reported.

The school issued a statement saying it does not discriminate on the basis of "race, color, [or] national and ethnic origin" in admissions but could not comment on a specific admission decision. Archdiocesan spokesman Bud Bunce n. 1. a sudden unexpected piece of good fortune.

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 did say in an Associated Press report that the school "did not make the nontraditional lifestyle of the parents the issue. The parents did."
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