Posted on 11/24/2014 11:15:22 AM PST by dennisw
It's a Christmas miracle! An elementary school in a Boston suburb that was going to cancel its annual trip to see The Nutcracker has decided allowing kids to see a Christmas tree on stage will not destroy the non-Christians in the audience. According to whdh.com:
The trip to see the famous ballet has been a tradition at the school for years, but apparently some felt the trip was improper because there is a Christmas tree on the stage.
The issue came to a head at a [Butler Elementary School] PTA meeting Tuesday night. A source said some people were told they were being discriminatory if they supported their kids going to "The Nutcracker."
The controversy was so white-hot, the PTA apparently worked in secret to cancel the field trip:
Some parents of the second graders, who didn't want to appear on camera, told 7News that they're also upset because PTA leaders secretly cancelled the field trip without telling anyone, but word spread.
PTA Co-President Barbara Bulfoni said, "In the past years there were parents complaints as 'The Nutcracker' has a religious content.
You know what? The Nutcracker does indeed have religious content. Everyone in the ballet is celebrating Christmas, a Christian holiday commemorating Christ. Same thing happens in A Christmas Carol, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, A Christmas Story, A Charlie Brown Christmas, White Christmas, Black Christmas (a slasher movie) and—heck—Handel's Messiah.
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My parents would not have minded one bit if I went on a school trip to see the Nutcracker with its Christian themes (I am Jewish)
I think it would be easier (and more fun!) to get rid of the troublemakers.
they probably allowed it to slip through b/c they realized that with Tchaikowsky they could teach about all the gay stuff
Best Nutcracker I ever saw was by Dennis Nahat, the Artistic Director for Ballet San Jose.
Karan Gabay, the principal ballerina and her then husband, Raymond Rodriguez always gave the most graceful and expressive performances.
Seen Nutcrackers from all over the world and none ever matched Dennis Nahat’s Nutcracker.
My beloved nation has become a grotesque parody.
That anyone takes these busy-body troublemakers seriously is amazing.
“I think it would be easier (and more fun!) to get rid of the troublemakers.”
Take over the school board, then ostracize them.
In the past years there were parents complaints as ‘The Nutcracker’ has a religious content
The Nut Jobs Win ,so everyone loses ,good job
I’m sure the tree will not be naked...
This is why this nation is a Christian nation. Otherwise it becomes open season on Christians. Arabs have Islam in 57 nations, the Jews in Israel; we can claim this one for our own.
Just tell them the “Christmas” tree began as a pagan custom. Then everyone will be happy.
Someone needs to break it to them that the Christmas tree is an imported Germanic pagan tradition. Perhaps that would make it better.
(Yes, being sarcastic. But, for the record, no, I would not go to the play. I would just have my kids do something else. But, also for the record, it is not part of the Jewish tradition to force our beliefs on others, so I would be more than happy with a school taking this trip.)
Wonder what ever happened to COMMON SENSE(I know, I read the Obit a while back)?
Don’t schools still send permission slips home to ensure the parents know where their children may be going and even use some parents as chaperons?
If you don’t want your kid to go the the outing, JUST SAY NO!
Thank You, and have the school allow the kid to stay home from school that day without it going on his/her ‘Permanent Record’.
If that causes some kind of ‘parental’ problem, let the kid come to school like normal and just skip the trip.
OF COURSE, one parent said it was time to change the program as her little kid has already seen it 4 times in 2nd grade and would like a change.....
“””I think it would be easier (and more fun!) to get rid of the troublemakers.””””
If one person stands up to complain; then two people stand up and say “SHUT UP”.
If two people stand up to complain; then four people stand up and say “SHUT UP”.
If three people stand up to complain; the six people stand up and say “SHUT UP”.
If four people stand up to complain; then eight.....
Well you get the idea.
But instead... one person complains... and a hundred others buckle and apologize. I don’t get it.
Just say “SHUT UP”.
Apparently Butler Elementary School is in Arlington, MA. Next door to Cambridge.
Lived there a few months, long enough to be able to not vote for Ted Kennedy, Tip O’Neill, and for Ronnie Reagan. (Then I moved congo districts).
Any way, I worked with a couple of people that owned homes there, and besides being a dry town, at least at the time, MA decided to allow, as the default traffic law, for a right turn on red after stop, unless otherwise posted.
The fine folks in Arlington posted all the traffic lights to prohibit right on red...
The maniacs are getting more aggressive in their fight to eliminate Christianity.
Fortunately, Tchaikovsky never found it within his heart to write a ballet about a magic scimitar that is presented to little Clara on Eid Eve, and after a battle in which the Mouse king is beheaded, he whisks little Clara off to a magical kingdom where all the different ethnic groups that have been enslaved by sharia law dance before her in their native dress: Iranians in Chadours, Afghans in Burkhas, and Saudis in Niqabs.
After performing FGM on little Clara and clothing her in a magic hijab, the enchanted scimitar returns her to her little bed just in time for the end of Ramadan, and she awakens to discover it was all a nightmare!
I am certain in my heart that it was not our Jewish friends that objected to the Nutcracker.
I am pretty sure it was somebody ELSE.
As long as they don’t repeat any part of Jesus’ Sermon at the Christmas Tree Farm, it should be OK... :)
Barbara Bulfoni
Barbara Bullphony...that’s better
Hey no problem. Just go to a moslem ballet. Oh wait. ...
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