Hi Bryan, Sad but true. My son is in the first grade and I have to say the public schools have gone way over board with the politically correct crap. He can't call a Christmas Tree a Christmas Tree. No, they refer to it as a Holiday Tree. When he meets another student, regardless of his/her religion, he must say "happy holiday." Music class consists of non religious songs like Jingle Bells, Jingle Bell Rock, Walking in a Winter Wonder Land, or something like that. Obviously, something like Silent Night, Joy to the World, or Oh Holy Night is absolutely out of the question. It has gotten to the point if the school is 99% Christian and there is one student with a different religion the school tries to make the holiday events as secular and non-religious as possible in order to keep from offending the student or his/her parents.
As a Constitutionalist I really don't like where we are going with the politically correct crap, because what the schools essentially are doing is revoking the students first amendment rights of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of peaceful assembly all to make the school look good in the eyes of the non-Christian students and parents. Meanwhile the students who slip up and say "merry Christmas" will get a stern talking to, and are told using "merry Christmas" instead of "happy holiday" is disrespectful rather than a first amendment right. What a screwed up world we live in these days. Cheers! On 12/25/11, Bryan Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: > That's probably why people these days are becoming "politically correct" and > saying happy holidays instead of Merry Christmas. I refuse to do that > personally since I feel political correctness is crap. But I've even heard > that in some schools you can actually get in trouble for saying Merry > Christmas anymore. > They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa! --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
