Posted on 12/07/2005 7:14:15 AM PST by Pikamax
HOUSTON -- At least one mother of a northwest Harris County elementary student was not looking forward to attending a school Christmas performance after learning Christmas had been removed from the lyrics of a song, KPRC Local 2 reported Tuesday.
Officials with the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District were not aware of the changes made to the traditional Christmas song, "We Wish You A Merry Christmas," until KPRC Local 2 called Tuesday inquiring about the lyric changes.
District officials said Moore Elementary School's music director did not write the song, but chose a jazzy adaptation of the popular English Christmas carol, "We Wish You A Merry Christmas," to reflect the multicultural and multiethnic performance.
The new song, titled "We Wish You A Swinging Holiday," does not mention Christmas at all.
"I thought it was horrible. I was stunned. I could not believe that they took a song like that and changed it," said the student's mother, Karen Morlock.
A spokeswoman for the district said the Christmas performance is not meant to be religious.
However, Morlock and her daughter Hayley said they don't understand why the music director chose an altered version of the song.
"I wouldn't mind singing 'Merry Christmas.' but whenever she changed it, it was like, 'Why did you do that? It's 'Christmas' not 'holiday,'" Hayley Morlock told KPRC Local 2.
Morlock said she is not upset enough to pull her daughter out of the program scheduled for Monday, but said the music director had other options.
"Do all the religions instead of just taking away the Christian part of it," Morlock said.
St. Elizebeth Anne Seton Catholic School choir director Tammy Steffen told KPRC Local 2 that singing traditional Christmas songs was not encouraged when she taught in public schools.
"There's more an emphasis in the public school to take Christ out of the center of Christmas," Steffan said.
There are countless secular holiday songs to choose from like "Frosty the Snowman" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," but the district's spokeswoman told KPRC Local 2 that the class concerts are age appropriate and those songs were too young for 5th-graders.
the swingers will be happy.
"Swinging Holiday"?
Sounds like they're preparing for an orgy.
Irony is lost on some people.
I'd be upset, too.
Was Jesus supposed to be Alto or Tenor?
A "swinging holiday"? What the hell is that?
This isn't "multicultural and multiethnic", it's anticultural and antiethnic.
I've had it with these people who refuse to recognize Christmas! If they're so adamant about recognizing it, then they can show up to work, go to school, continue on with their "Christ-less" lives and let the believers celebrate the birth of our Saviour.
How pathetic of the school.
My daughter had a concert at her university on Saturday. They did traditonal Christmas carols including O Holy Night.
She said the oddest thing she encountered was a Jehovah's witness violinist who refused to play because she did not participate in Christmas. However the 2 Jewish girls in the orchestra had no problem with it.
Time to contact the ADF - Alliance Defense Fund
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org
It's not too late for one of their lawyers to fax legal challenges to them and maybe get the words changed back before the concert. Changing words in copyrighted material would be a whole different legal issue, too bad traditional music is unprotected.
Which freeper is going to tell them?
Should be: If they're so adamant about NOT recognizing it...
"it's anticultural and antiethnic."
It multi-idiotic - this village has more than one idiot!
Which freeper is going to tell them?
i just submitted this request at their web site
done - did that
Great, but I hope you didn't forget to wish them a swingin' holiday!
Well, I'm happy to report that I went to my son's middle school Christmas program yesterday. They obviously did not edit the word "Christmas" out of their program.
And it's a public school, too. I'm expecting to read next that they've been sued by the ACLU.
"Mom Upset Christ Missing From Christmas Carol"
I'd be upset too, the difference is that I would pull my kid out of their secular performance. Amen and Amen.
By the way MERRY CHRISTMAS.
Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto and the 45 stated goals of Communists for America...with a little help from the illegal alien narco terrorists and Mohamheadians.
Right on schedule
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