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hi all, I would like to know your opinion on this situation that happened to me today:

I was talking to my students, and a woman who works in our school came walking right in and without even saying excuse me, started talking about giving me hanakauh cut- outs. I thought she was being nice and said oh, you must mean for my fireplace, which I had hanging in the hall near my room with stockings for my kids I made. I said ya sure, maybe I'll put them up, as I was toatlly off guard, and did not want to put something up that none of my kids celebrate and which did not go w/my display. She smirked and said ya maybe unreal. Soon after she went to the principal and complained saying I had outrageous x-mas decorations (i have a charlie brown tree, one pair of lights and stockings...all my kids 7 ell's only celebrate x-mas, and I planned on talking/reading about hanakuah and kwanza too). The principal even came up and said it was beautiful and not outrgaeous and a book would survise to ...See More
suzy bless you...we have no Christmas anything...except for a parent who might want to come in and volunteer and explain Christmas (which is by the way a national holiday) and that is it! No Christmas anything. We have a giving tree that is made of dowling and kids bring in gifts before Thanksgiving. Even no Santa pictures allowed. The library has books...See More
Dec 4, 2008
skylark2868 On 12/04/08, suzy wrote: > bless you...we have no Christmas anything...except for a > parent who might want to come in and volunteer and explain > Christmas (which is by the way a national holiday) and that > is it! No Christmas anything. We have a giving tree that > is made of dowling and kids bring in gifts before > Thanksgiving...See More
Dec 4, 2008
Sara eople think public schools are everyone's business and they're encouraged to think that way - especially at tax time... And the topic of the winter holidays has been a Hot One for a number of years now. Indeed, I'm surprised that your school is allowed to continue putting up Christmas decorations - I don't disapprove, please don't misunderstand. 'R...See More
Dec 6, 2008
Diana The woman who did that to you was being mean-spirited and unpleasant. I'm sorry it happened.

Because I live in a rural Southern town with a very homogeneous population, there is no problem with Christmas stories, songs, etc. Anything that we do has to be tied to grade level learning standards, but if it is, then anything goes.

We ...See More
Dec 7, 2008
Sara I think that it is very odd that our society expects us to > respect diversity by honoring the traditions of others, but > in many places, that does not include honoring or practicing > our own.

We are certainly allowed to practice our faith and its traditions - that's silly to think we're not. My school doesn't allow us to put up...See More
Dec 7, 2008


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