This reminds me of an incident at a school south of me about 20 years ago. The school had a tradition of celebrating the outstanding artwork of its students by exhibiting it throughout the school building. One student's painting was of the Crucifixion. This artwork had been hanging on the wall for a number of years. A Jewish couple moved to the school district with their child. Within a very short time after enrolling their child at the school, they had filed a lawsuit against the school saying that their child was made uncomfortable by this particular painting. After a year of raging debate, the school removed the painting.
This was my personal introduction to the War on Christianity. Ironically, our own elementary school principal was Jewish, and not only did he organize Christmas caroling, he strolled through the neighborhood, singing carols with us, both secular and religious. No one does that anymore. You can't even hear kids sing religious carols at a Christmas concert anymore.
The awesome spirituality is gone from the public arena.
I'm Jewish, and my elementary school music teacher was Jewish, and he organized Christmas caroling and taught the school choir Christmas songs, and one or two Hannukah songs and organized a Christmas concert. So much for the good old days.
When I was in high school choir, one of our favorite warm-up songs was "The Lord Bless You and Keep You". You probably couldn't get away with that today. We also used 1930's era hymnals for sight-reading. Zgirl can attest that on more than one occasion, singing "The Lord Bless You and Keep You" was a religious experience in itself. I remember very specifically feeling the very presence of G-d in the room when we were really tight.