Posted on 12/07/2005 7:00:17 AM PST by Pikamax
SEATTLE -- Two suburban school districts have had to do some backtracking over holiday religious issues, one for lunch menus with the words "Merry Christmas" and the other for a "giving tree."
In Federal Way, between Seattle and Tacoma, December lunch menus for all 23 elementary schools were recalled and reprinted with the words "Happy Holidays" at a cost of $494 after a new nutrition services employee mistakenly prepared them with the greeting "Merry Christmas," spokeswoman Diane Turner said.
The 11,500 misworded calendar-style menus were never distributed and were recycled, Turner added.
Using "Merry Christmas" on the menus violated school system policies because "it has a religious connotation for some people," Turner said.
"Our objective is to provide information to the diversity of the people that we have in our district," she said. "We try to respect each individuals point of view."
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I can't believe how crazy this country has become.
"Our objective is to provide information to the diversity of the people that we have in our district," she said. "We try to respect each individuals point of view."
LOL.....for once, words fail me!!
I'm so glad my kids don't attend a public school.
So once again it's okay to be sensitive to everyone but Christians. Those people can be discriminated against 'till the cows come home. Gag me!
Sick bastards..
You can email the Superintendent....Tom Murphy here... tmurphy@fwps.org.
A GIVING TREE!! What in the name of the lord is wrong with GIVING!
Disgusting that this is happening more and more.
"The 11,500 misworded calendar-style menus were never distributed and were recycled, Turner added."
Thankfully, they were recycled. If they had left sentence out of the report, I would have worried all day.
MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone.
"We try to respect each individuals point of view."
Riiiiiight. Ok.
No, it's expected. The disgusting thing is that people still entrust their children to these government-run indoctrination centers.
Insanity reigns.
And, bizarre as it seems, Christmas is actually a legal national holiday. So saying "Merry Christmas" is perfectly legal.
Except in public. . .
I wrote him. I encourage everyone to let him know how you feel.
Dear Superintendent Murphy,Your spokeswoman, Diane Turner, stated "Our objective is to provide information to the diversity of the people that we have in our district," she said. "We try to respect each individuals point of view."
Banning the word "Christmas" only shows that you don't want to offend a handful of athiests and agnostics but are willing to disrespect and offend hundreds of Christians, just within your school, who celebrate the reason for the "holiday."
How do your actions display either tolerance or diversity? It doesn't. It exhibits hate and religious bigotry.
How disgusting.
Unfortunately, this is the Federal Way these days. It's time for Christians all over the world to take back their holiday! We need to remind the non-believers that they do NOT have the right to NOT be offended!
VERY good!!!
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