Crosses Yanked From Remembrance Day Display
Parents at a west-end Toronto school balked this week after crosses were removed from a Remembrance Day display in the name of religious equality. When teacher Tom Ramanauskas' Grade 3 students at Swansea Public School decorated a bulletin board outside their classroom for Remembrance Day, they included the poppies and crosses symbolized in John McCrae's In Flanders Fields, a poem they had read in class. But on Thursday, the school's principal had a conversation with Mr. Ramanauskas that prompted him to drop the crosses.