“A school district may educate students about the history of
traditional winter celebrations, and allow students and district staff
to offer traditional greetings regarding the celebrations including (1)
“Merry Christmas”; (2) “Happy Hanukkah”; and (3) “happy holidays.” This is, in part, the law of the land in Texas, where everything is bigger including the fuss. The friendly folks at Gene and Ruby Nichols Elementary School in Frisco may not have gotten the memo about the big win against those waging the War On Christmas. Why else would a PTA member send this e-mail:
The Winter Party Rules…
1) No reference to Christmas or any other religious holiday
2) No red/green or Christmas Trees
3) Nothing that will stain the carpet (red juice, dark colored icing, etc.)
No dark colored icing? Heresy! Of course, that's not the bee that has itself nestled in everyone's unseasonal bonnet. It's that lack of reference to the Christ child and his birthday party. The one that is ensured by law for all students regardless of their race, creed or "religion." As a a measure of reassurance, Frisco Independent School District Superintendent Jeremy Lyon, and was
told the rules are not, “district policy.” He was also told by the PTA
that kids could indeed say, “merry Christmas.” And so the frothing commenced. “I feel like my calling in life is to protect the students, parents and
teachers,” State Representative Pat Fallon said. “They have a constitutional right to express
themselves. They have freedom of religion.” Pat is the author of the bill that became law, allowing for all this "freedom." He went on to say the ban on Christmas trees and traditional holiday colors
remains in place and calls it “unnecessary, inappropriate, and quite
frankly draconian in nature.” Mister Fallon told Fox News, “One teacher wanted to do ‘Elf on a Shelf’ and she thought she would get in trouble." Did I mention that Gene and Ruby Nichols Elementary School is in his district?
So, in Texas when angry parents want to have dark icing on their Christmas trees, we should listen to them, but when angry parents want to keep the last week of school in December a more secular in keeping with that notion of separation of church and state, they are dismissed as politically correct nuts.
Here's what I know about kids in elementary school: If you give them a snowflake-shaped cookie covered in white frosting and wish them "Happy Holidays" before you pat them on the head and send them out the door for two weeks off school, they aren't going to scream or cry. They're going to lick off that frosting with a smile on their face and wish you a Happy Kwanza.
“We’re
celebrating Christmas, so why can’t it be a Christmas party or maybe a
holiday party?” said Fallon. “But they’ve skipped over ‘holiday’ and go
to ‘winter.’ That’s political correctness gone too far.” - See more at:
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/how-the-pta-stole-christmas-school-bans-red-green-and-the-word-christmas-from-the-winter-party_122013#sthash.s7X30Pbd.dpuf
“We’re
celebrating Christmas, so why can’t it be a Christmas party or maybe a
holiday party?” said Fallon. “But they’ve skipped over ‘holiday’ and go
to ‘winter.’ That’s political correctness gone too far.” - See more at:
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/how-the-pta-stole-christmas-school-bans-red-green-and-the-word-christmas-from-the-winter-party_122013#sthash.s7X30Pbd.dpuf
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment