Nudist First Day At School

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MONTPELIER, Vt. -- A 'traditional Catholic' says he has everything needed to open the nation's first nudist school -- except students.
'We realize that the clientele we seek is extremely limited,' acknowledged James Cunningham of Bakersville, Calif., founder of the Mt. Carmel Academy.

Cunningham said he visualize the academy as a private boarding school for children ranging in age from 7 to 18.
The former guidance counselor at a Roman Catholic school in Newport, Calif., said he has obtained a zoning permit for the school and no state approval is needed for Mt. Carmel students to take off their clothes.
'I'm a traditional Catholic,' he said, 'and we want to provide a moral education as well as intellectual and academic. One moral thing that needs to be addressed is our attitude toward our bodies, and it isn't addressed in many schools.'
A handbook for prospective students has been written and a curriculum is being developed, he said.
Cunningham is confident he can win state approval for the school, which probably would be located at his home in rural Franklin County until its student population warrants a larger facility.
The father of three said nudism promotes chastity, not lust, among students because it removes the 'false mystique' surrounding certain parts of the body.

'We teach that every thought, word or deed done to arouse outside of marriage is wrong -- we think that teaching is very important,' he said.
'At the same time, we just as vehemently reject a puritanical false modesty. We oppose this puritanism with nudism, teaching that the naked human body and all of its functions are good, sacred and beautiful.'
Cunningham, who helped found a nudist religious organization called 'Altogether Christians,' said there are legitimate reasons to wear clothes, including 'warmth, protection, comfort, cleanliness, and courtesy.'
He said students at the school would be dressed when clothes are appropriate, and undressed when they are not.
'On a hot day, you wouldn't find many people wearing clothes,' he said.
The academy has been advertised in nudist publications, said Cunningham, but so far there have been no takers.
'We'd be the only nudist school, the only school that includes nudism in its philosophy, in the United States,' he said.
'I've gotten a slew of letters, but no students yet.'

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Published on 19.03.10 13:30 Age: 12 yrs

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Mrs Green
Megan Beck
Dale Rudy
Jackie Steward
Kim Taylor
Isabelle Steward
Francis Steward

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Tension was high, but for the grade school students, it was mostly lived internally. The textile kids had wide eyes trying to get used to all of the bare parts they were seeing for the first time. The Naturist kids were afraid the situation would degenerate.
Well, not all of the naturist kids, for most were simply happy they were finally able to get rid of their clothes while others were simply happy to have gotten rid of their anxiety about how today would occur.
Not all of the textile kids were uncomfortable with the nudity around them. Some of the younger kids evacuated their awkwardness by laughing it off, but after while, even the oldest kids started to get used to the idea that more than half of their colleagues were naked.
Kids in classes where pairing was implemented usually reacted the best to the situation because they had reached a relatively good understanding of what naturism was about before the today.
Mrs Green, from 4th grade was one of the notable exceptions. She didn't implement pairing but used her own method in which she alternated between games opposing the two lifestyles to show that both kinds of kids were identical and team bonding in which she created small groups of kids which changed from day to day. Of course, she had the odd combination of having both the smallest class in school and the highest ratio of naturists to textiles. For an odd reason. Only 5 textile kids were in her class of 21 students.
In Megan Beck's sixth grade class, the kids handled the situation relatively well considering she was the only naturist teacher in 5th and 6th grade.
Kids in the first few grades are not yet approaching puberty, but in the final two years of grade schools, many of the girls had started to have breasts and most of the boys had started to think about girls.
Megan had thought that being the only naturist teacher with older kids would have caused problems, but her day went relatively smoothly.
In her class, all of her naturist student were nude on the first day which she saw as a sign of trust toward her. She was proud of all of her students alike, except perhaps Dale Rudy, one of the textile kids she knew could be trouble.
Dale spent most of the day looking at his classmates with an odd grin on his face. At recess, Megan kept him in class to talk to him, but his behaviour didn't really improve during the rest of the day. Fortunately, only Megan seemed to have noticed and all of the other textile kids reacted relatively well.
Jackie Steward was quickly seen as the textile kid who was the most at ease with the new situation. Not only was she relaxed and calm, but she helped a few of her friends reach the same inner peace she seamed to have.
But for Jackie, a fight was occurring just below the surface and her calmness was just an attempt to hide her own apprehensions.
Kim, her friend and naturist pairing partner, was able to see that something was different about her, but Jackie wasn't ready yet to talk about it.
It's only later at home in the middle of supper that she decided to ask her parents the important question that had been running thru her mind all day long.
"Mom, Dad, what do you think of naturism ?"
The Steward had answered that question numerous times in the past and as such, Isabelle's reply came without having to think about it.
"You dad and I think it's something natural. That's why we have no problem when your friend Kim was undressed at our house. You shouldn't discriminate against the naturist kids in your school"
Jackie's throat was half dry when she managed to reply :"I know that. What I mean is, what about you ?"
This time her parents took a long look at each other and her father replied, diplomatically : "Are you asking us permission to try naturism ?"
Relieved, Jackie still almost hid herself under the table to reply in the affirmative, convinced that her parents would ground her or yell at her.
Instead, her mom stood up and hugged her to make her feel warm and accepted. "Honey, you will have to decide by yourself what you want to do. If you want to try it, we have no problems with it. Just make sure you are doing it for yourself, not just to please someone or make friends".
It's only about an hour after supper that Jackie got the courage to undress in her house. She had been nude with Kim and even with Amanda, but that was at a naturist house. Being nude with her parents in the house she grew up in sounded weird at first but soon enough, she felt the peacefulness that the other naturist kids mentioned.
Not longer after, it was time for her bath and soon after, she went to bed without bothering to put clothes on.
Before falling asleep however, Jackie thought long and hard about her future. Starting today, most of the residents of the city would be naked all day long, including her best friend and her teacher.
One day or another, she knew she would embrace naturism. It felt natural and simple compared to endless doubt over what to wear to fit in and be accepted.
When the news of the transition broke out months ago, her parents had made sure that she would accept these people as they were. Her mother was particularly clear that it wasn't something bad and that if their lives had turned out differently, perhaps they would be nudists too.
Well, Jackie felt she was at a crossroad. What did she want ? She had felt good naked at the Taylor's house. She felt good naked in her house. How would she feel at school ? There was only one way to find out.
The next morning, she did put clothes on, but she made sure to pack a small towel in her school bag.
When she arrived, she searched for Kim to and quickly dragged her to the closest bathroom where she showed her the towel she brought.
The already nude Kim hugged her best friend in silence, but as soon as the girls separated, Jackie began putting her clothes in her bag, keeping only her socks and her shoes on.
Nervously, the formerly textile girl followed her best friend to their classroom where their entrance was definitely noticed. As Jackie walked to her desk, almost as naked as the day she was born, the eyes every student were locked on her, amazed at her transformation.
A few weeks after writing her letter to her mom announcing that she is a naturist now, Amy decides to apply for a job at DeriMark systems. This is a sequel to "The Letter".
On the first day of Naturism at the Eden's Creek High School, there was fight between 2 seniors, a naturist and a textile. Malcolm Jacobs, captain of the football team and avid naturist, talks on 98.5FM about his fight.
It's Transition Day and Kim Taylor will need to be nude in elementary school in her 6th grade class. Will she be the only naturist kid nude ? How will the textile kids react ? Kim wonders as she gets ready for school.
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An Extract from Kim Taylor's diary about her first day in school.
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Oops.. I guess I was tired when I was writing the article and wanted to return to my bed ;-)
... Jackie began putting her clothes in her bed, keeping only her socks and her shoes on.... Shouldn't bed be bag?

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My Summer at a Quaker Nudist Camp Writer Mark Oppenheimer shares his childhood memories of his month-long stay at a nudist summer camp run by Quakers.

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Writer Mark Oppenheimer shares his childhood memories of his month-long stay at a nudist summer camp run by Quakers.
Good clean competition, hairy or otherwise, is a part of summer fun for children attending sleep-away camp. But in the middle of August, camps across the nation are closing their activities, kids say goodbye to new friends and first loves and their daily dose of Capture the Flag. Most children are sad to leave, but there are some who cannot wait to get back home, and that was the case for writer Mark Oppenheimer.
When I was eight years old, in 1983, my parents sent me off to a nudist camp; not a camp for adults who voluntarily chose nudism as a lifestyle, but a summer camp for young boys where nudity was encouraged. At Timberlake, nestled in the woodlands of Vermont, boys swam in the nude, slept in the nude, even played Whiffle ball in the nude.
I think my parents sent me to Timberlake because the camp had been founded by Quakers. I had spent a lot of time that year watching Michael J. Fox play the young right-winger Alex P. Keaton on the TV show "Family Ties," and my parents probably hoped that four weeks in the care of back-to-nature pacifists would cure me of any conservative impulses.
Now Quakers are not generally nudists. Richard Nixon was a Quaker and he wore clothes in public. James Dean was a Quaker and he wore clothes, too. But at this summer camp, the free-spirited tradition had evolved over the years to include more freedoms than most of us consider normal. Well, I was a modest boy and I wasn't having any of this nudist nonsense. At the beginning of the summer, there was one other boy who insisted on remaining clothed, even at swim time. But he caved, and by August, I was the only boy willful and stubborn enough to wear clothes all the time. I thought these people were crazy. And if the skinny-dipping and nude sports hadn't been enough to drive me away, then I surely would have made up my mind after sneaking out of my bunk on the very last night and finding my counselors--some of them well into their old age--square dancing in their birthday suits.
My parents picked me up the next day, and on the drive home from Vermont to Massachusetts, they filled me on what I missed. Dave Righetti had thrown a no-hitter for the Yankees on the Fourth of July. My youngest brother had learned to kick a soccer ball. But what about me?--they wanted to know. Had I been homesick? Happy? Had I made friends? I can't remember what I told them, but I'm sure that I didn't want to hurt their feelings. They'd had such high hopes for my summer with the Quaker nudists. I must have said something like, `Well, it was an interesting month.'
It turns out that I should have been a little more honest because the next summer, after promising me I'd never have to go back to Timberlake, they sent me instead to Kinderland, a socialist sleep-away camp where the cabins were named after dead leftists, like Eugene Debs and Woody Guthrie. I spent all of that summer singing songs about union solidarity and writing letters to congressmen about the civil war in Nicaragua. But look on the bright side: At least I got to wear clothes.
CHADWICK: Mark Oppenheimer is a writer who lives in Connecticut. You can read Mark's essay about his leftist camp experience in the book "Sleepaway: Writings on Summer Camp."
I'm Alex Chadwick. There's more to come on DAY TO DAY from NPR News.
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