Spokane Public School Snubbing Christmas
If you were to take a poll of Americans and ask them what important dates, or holidays is in December, I am willing to guess more than 90% would say Christmas as their first answer. Somehow, the Spokane school system “accidentally” forgot Christmas on their list of important dates sent to parents. Making the list were Hanukkah, Human Rights Day, winter break, the Islamic holy day Eid al-Adha, first day of winter and Kwanzaa.
Hanukkah, Human Rights Day, winter break, the Islamic holy day Eid al-Adha, first day of winter and Kwanzaa all made the list, but Spokane Public Schools snubbed Christmas.
Yuletide was left off a list of “important dates” in a December newsletter sent to elementary school students’ families, drawing complaints from some parents that in an age of political correctness, Christians are being overlooked in favor of other cultures and beliefs.
As the response started coming in, the district’s community relations department began damage control, sending out e-mails to school staff accepting responsibility for the “Bulletin Board” newsletter blunder and calling it “an honest, unfortunate mistake.” Christmas had been added to the “important dates” section of the online version of the school district’s newsletter by Thursday afternoon.
None of the events listed are even national holidays, with several of them being religous holidays. The political correct police probably contacted the Spokane school system and told them that by adding Christmas to their important date list would somehow be an endorsement of religion because the word “Christ” would then be on their calender. Don’t even get me started with the fatc that they included the made up holiday of Kwanzaa.
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Oh my goodness! just found your blog. This sounds like something my husband would have written. Don’t get him started on KWANZAA!
We moved to Spokane almost 3 years ago. I sub in the local public school system and have been shocked at how little the schools reflect the holiday season. The classrooms are bland. For some of them, you wouldn’t know what season it was if it weren’t for the class calendars. If it’s not in the state’s EALRs or on the WASL, it’s not covered in many of the schools.
We moved here from California, known for its cultural diversity and its OVERsensitivity to other cultures and how they might ‘perceive’ holiday traditions that built this country. My classroom as well as those of my fellow teachers, overflowed with personality and the holiday season!