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.
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
Light ‘em up, but in a friendly way.
BUTLER PTA CONTACT 2014-2015
For general questions, please email the Butler PTA at: butlerpta@gmail.com
Co-Presidents:
Miriam Lapson miriamlapson@gmail.com
Barbara Bulfoni barbara.bulfoni@gmail.com
Co-President Elect:
Maribel Carvajal maribelcce@msn.com
Financial Secretary:
Priti Gaitonde pitulius@yahoo.com
Nominating Committee Chair:
Recording Secretary:
Steph Wratten stephwratten@gmail.com
Treasurer:
Julie Crockett juliescrockett@gmail.com
Vice Presidents of After-School Enrichment:
Barbara Bulfoni barbara.bulfoni@gmail.com
Kate Abruzzi katharinebca@me.com
Vice Presidents of In-School Enrichment:
Karen Gutterman theguttermans1@verizon.net
Ann Ozawa annozawa@gmail.com
Vice Presidents of Ways and Means:
Laura VanDerHart lvanderhart@hotmail.com
Frank Dill fydill3@aol.com
The Fall PTA Packet contains additional information on the committee chairs.
This Butler school is in Belmont, Mass.
They also wished everybody else a "Merry Christmas."
Morons. There is no other word for it.
Yo, Tchaikovsky is just some dead white dude who makes all white music. Far better and more educational to send the kids to a Kwanza rap concert.
So the idiots were afraid the tree was going to fall on the little darlings, or what?
Too much stupid.
I don’t understand. Even atheists celebrate Christmas. It’s not exclusively a Christian holiday, despite its origins.
It’s mandantory to take kids on field trips to mosques but there’s a question on going to the Nutcracker? Mindboggling.
How do they know it’s a Christmas Tree? The word Christmas is never said in the Nutcracker. In fact there are no lyrics.
“We are living in the age of insanity.” - The late great George Putnam.
And as a kid who grew up Catholic, no one in my family would have minded one bit if the school taught us the meaning and traditions of Chanukah. I would have been interested to learn.
A teacher in my school on Long Island put up “Happy Chanukah” decorations in her classroom at my school, but no one ever explained to us non-Jewish students what Chanukah was all about.
Bet they wouldnt even think of canceling a class trip to an islamic mosque.
If The Nutcracker had a gay marriage scene there’d be mandatory attendance required.
I was raised Catholic, but I look forward to Adam Sandler’s version of the Chanukah song every year just as much as a Charlie Brown Christmas, The Little Drummer Boy, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
This weekend one of the Boston radio stations started playing Christmas music. It drove my teenage son crazy. Therefore, I turned it up louder. :)
Say, didn't (doesn't?) Mitt Romney live in Belmont?
If they’re afraid of the Christmas tree, they must think the Nutcracker is Hillary Clinton.
Holy Infant So Tender and Mild!
I’m Jewish and I love Christmas music (not just Jingle Bells, either - my fave is O Holy Night!) and I looooooove the Nutcracker. My son performed in it for years (Doing gymnastic flips as the Russians). Never was exposed to it as a child but the music is wonderful, the story creepy, and always fun to see.
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