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South suburban schools say they did not invite a Jewish author back to speak to students because of changes to the curriculum and the author’s presentation. For multiple years, schools in North Palos Elementary District 117 and Orland Park Elementary District 135 invited Fern Schumer Chapman of Lake Bluff to speak to elementary and junior high school students about her young adult memoir about .