Please say that this is not going to be the following huge battle within the so-called War on Christmas. Final week, the Sumner County Faculty Board in Tennessee broke out right into a heated argument about whether or not the faculties’ two-week break on the finish of December ought to be known as “Winter Break” or “Christmas Break.”
According to WSMV4 in Nashville, the varsity board voted final yr to vary the identify to “Christmas Break” after calling the vacation “Winter Break” since not less than 1994.
Board member Wade Evans broached the subject by reporting that his constituents weren’t proud of the exclusion that got here with calling the holiday “Christmas Break.”
“Mother and father can really feel a sure approach, however we’re making choices that influence our youngsters. I’d argue that the majority who wish to argue with me suppose that I wish to take away one thing from one group or one other. I believe additionally they wouldn’t wish to exclude children,” Evans mentioned, in line with WSMV4. “I checked out 16 counties round us and one calls it what we name it.”
“Let’s be sure after we are having these conversations it’s not our job to dictate to our complete neighborhood what a two week interval ought to be known as from a faith-based standpoint,” agreed one other board member, Meghan Breining.
However different board members had been adamant about maintaining the phrase “Christmas.”
“Would you slightly me mislead you or inform the reality. Christmas is Christmas why do we have now to fret about offending everyone over the reality,” mentioned Board Member Andy Lacy. “It’s not my intention to offend individuals, however Christmas is Christmas and why do we have now to appease the one %?”
“It’s not about erasing religion. It’s not about taking Jesus out of the season. Actually, I’d problem you to say that it’s the alternative. It’s about recognizing that we’re a neighborhood. That’s why I moved right here. We’re a neighborhood and we have to care about one another,” argued another board member, Shellie Young Tucker, in line with FOX17.
The board is anticipated to vote on the calendar this week — on Tuesday, October 21.
This appears to be a part of an organized effort by the precise to place faith again into public faculties regardless of the separation of church and state — different efforts have included book banning, religious classes, and hanging the Ten Commandments in classrooms.
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