Catholic school embraces non-Catholic kids
Photo credit: Newsday/Karen Wiles Stabile | From left, Gurtej Dhall, 11, who is in 6th grade, talks with twins Yianni and Adelmo Petrakis, 11 and in the 5th grade, at Holy Child Academy in Old Westbury. (Feb. 1, 2012)
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For the 9-year-old Sikh boy in a turban, the teasing by his public school classmates on Long Island was cruel and constant. Then his parents found a place where Gurtej Dhall wouldn't be taunted because of his religion: a private Catholic school.
The youngster says he's been embraced at Holy Child Academy in Old Westbury. On his first day there as a fourth-grader, at the suggestion of the school's...
