It’s time for this year’s update on our public education
system’s complete and utter lunacy as regards Christmas and the holiday season!
Jennifer Sinclair, principal of
Manchester Elementary School in Omaha, Nebraska, recently put the kibosh on a
vast number of Christmas-related items. A memo from Sinclair listed the
forbidden items and activities:
*Santas
or Christmas items (clip art) on worksheets
*Christmas
trees in classrooms
*Elf on
the Shelf— “that’s Christmas-related”
*Singing
Christmas carols
*Playing
Christmas music
*Sending
a scholastic book that is a Christmas book—"that’s Christmas-related”
*Making
a Christmas ornament as a gift—“This assumes that the family has a Christmas
tree which assumes they celebrate Christmas. I challenge the thought of, ‘Well
they can just hang it somewhere else.’”
*Reindeer
*Red/green
items—traditional Christmas colors
*Christmas
videos/movies and/or characters from Christmas movies
*Candy
Cane—"that’s Christmas-related. Historically, the shape is a
‘J’ for Jesus. The red is for the blood of Christ, and the white is a symbol of
his resurrection. This would also include different colored candy canes.”
Yes,
symbols of Christ are certainly inappropriate for the Christmas season,
whatever their colors!
Liberty
Counsel, a law firm defending religious freedom, obtained a copy of the memo
and subsequently sent a demand letter to the superintendent of Elkhorn Public
Schools urging the district to “immediately overrule and specifically disavow
the sweeping directive banning Christmas holiday items, and require Principal
Sinclair to undertake review of District policy and the law.”
The
district responded, saying it had “investigated this matter and determined that
Principal Sinclair’s memorandum did not comply with Board policy” and that it
had advised Manchester staffers that “certain Christmas symbols” are
permissible.
Sinclair
essentially apologized for her actions, noting that she “come(s) from a place
that Christmas and the like are not allowed in schools.” New York City?
California?
What were to be “acceptable practices” at the
school?:
*Gifts
to students
*Students
making a gift for a loved one
*Snowmen, snow women, snow people,
snowflakes
*Gingerbread people
*Holidays Around the
World—purposeful presentation of information to teach about different cultures
*Sledding
*Hot chocolate
*Polar Bears
*Penguins
*Scarves, boots, earmuffs, and hats
*Yetis
*Olaf ( from the movie “Frozen”)
Is there no end to her tolerance
and largess? Can the kiddies actually wear
scarves, boots, earmuffs, and hats, too?
The Abominable Snowman and polar bears are fine, but reindeer are
problematic? As for “snow people,” I bet a transgender Jihadi snow person might
garner its maker extra-credit!
And we all know snowflakes are
acceptable. After all, there are so many in our schools already.
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