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Santa Claus is banned. The Pledge of Allegiance is no longer recited. “Harvest festival” has replaced Thanksgiving, and “winter celebrations” substitute for Christmas parties.
New principal Eujin Jaela Kim has given PS 169 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, a politically correct scrub-down, to the dismay of teachers and parents.
“We definitely can’t say Christmas, nothing with Christmas on it, nothing with Santa,” PTA President Mimi Ferrer said administrators told her. “No angels. We can’t even have a star because it can represent a religious system, like the Star of David.”
Depends on how this plays out. The school doesn't have to promote any specific holidays but the students should be free to recognize them. All or nothing.
Utterly ridiculous. If true, that makes no sense whatsoever. As not all students celebrate the same holidays, all should be permitted because these students are going out into a diverse world. The school doesn't have to promote them but the students should be to recognize them.
True but schools today live in their own little world..almost utopia like.
That's probably why these kids get the shock of their lives once they hit college.
True but schools today live in their own little world..almost utopia like.
That's probably why these kids get the shock of their lives once they hit college.
I reconsidered the school's policy and edited my post. It depends. As long as students are allowed to recognize the holidays, that's fine. Either the school recognizes all or recognizes none.
I don't really have an issue with official school business being made more neutral when it comes to Christmas season stuff. Banning Thanksgiving is a new one, and quite odd if you ask me. It's an American holiday in America; rather or not your celebrate it, what do you expect?
As for the pledge of allegiance, I don't personally believe students should be required to pledge loyalty to anything.
To get back to Christmas, students should be able to do as they wish in this area. If they want to leave a tiny nativity scene on their desk or whatever, they should be able to do so. And frankly, if a teacher wants to decorate his/her room with their students, I think they should be able to put up just about anything.
Several schools around by me have zero Christmas stuff this year.
No decorations, no parties, no trees, nothing.
This must be the year of Christmas PC.
My eldest child is in college and my youngest in middle school. Total number of schools they've attended: eight. Outside of the parochial school my eldest attended for first grade, none of their schools have done anything official for Christmas or any other religious holiday. There's no Easter Bunny either.
I don't really have an issue with official school business being made more neutral when it comes to Christmas season stuff. Banning Thanksgiving is a new one, and quite odd if you ask me. It's an American holiday in America; rather or not your celebrate it, what do you expect?
As for the pledge of allegiance, I don't personally believe students should be required to pledge loyalty to anything.
To get back to Christmas, students should be able to do as they wish in this area. If they want to leave a tiny nativity scene on their desk or whatever, they should be able to do so. And frankly, if a teacher wants to decorate his/her room with their students, I think they should be able to put up just about anything.
That is pretty much my point of view on this as well.
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