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Principal Bans Candy Canes Because ā€˜Jā€™ Shape Stands For Jesus. That Was Only The Beginning.
greatamericanpolitics.com ^ | December 6, 2018 | By Michael Stanley

Posted on 12/06/2018 11:08:40 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: caww

I’m hoping she will not be allowed to return to the position.

I guess we’ll see.


61 posted on 12/06/2018 11:55:33 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Freee-dame

[What does this mean?]

It means, “I thought I’d be a liberal hero but the blowback was immediate. Now, I’m just pretending it was just an innocent mistake. All a misunderstanding.”

If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.


62 posted on 12/06/2018 11:57:22 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: caww

There was a Morgan Freeman movies based on a true story about a retired military fellow who took over as a principal at a NJ school. As I recall he was an Army drill instructor previously. I don’t know if he taught before that, but I think the requirements for Principals vary by State and don’t always require being a teacher first.


63 posted on 12/06/2018 11:57:28 AM PST by reed13k
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To: oh8eleven

[ Sinclair has went ]

Good catch. Ouch.


64 posted on 12/06/2018 11:59:08 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Red Badger

jsinclair1@epsne.org

Have at it...


65 posted on 12/06/2018 11:59:24 AM PST by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: reed13k
Still..She seems just too young and inexperienced.
66 posted on 12/06/2018 11:59:25 AM PST by caww
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To: relictele

I just did!!!


67 posted on 12/06/2018 12:00:00 PM PST by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: reed13k

Democrats and the NEA are actively destroying the U.S.A.

That is not a comprehensive list. Just two of the offenders.

Let me add the MSM for a third offender.


68 posted on 12/06/2018 12:00:50 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: caww

Early/Mid 30s with that much experience. I’ve seen executives, officers, etc with less time that had more responsibility. Heck you can be President at 35. That all being said I think she’s bat-s*** crazy.


69 posted on 12/06/2018 12:02:20 PM PST by reed13k
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To: SaveFerris

Likely she’ll remain....if they attempt to dismiss her, and since a liberal, you know the ACLU and a host of others will rile their feathers in her defense.

Then too we really don’t know much about the board who approved her....doesn’t sound like they were all that interested in vetting her much unless they too are in the dumpster of progressives.


70 posted on 12/06/2018 12:02:49 PM PST by caww
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To: Red Badger

sometimes you just have to push back. the principal of my kids elementary school banned Christmas songs. So I wrote/called school superintendent — Fairfax County Va — who told me that Christmas songs were
absolutely llowed as long as other religions songs were included in the winter concert. Concert could not be exclusively Christmas.


71 posted on 12/06/2018 12:04:09 PM PST by Calvin Cooledge
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To: reed13k

Well....I wouldn’t want someone this young....regardless.


72 posted on 12/06/2018 12:04:20 PM PST by caww
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To: Red Badger

According to Wikipedia ...


According to folklore, in 1670, in Cologne, Germany, the choirmaster at Cologne Cathedral, wishing to remedy the noise caused by children in his church during the Living Crèche tradition of Christmas Eve, asked a local candy maker for some “sugar sticks” for them. In order to justify the practice of giving candy to children during worship services, he asked the candy maker to add a crook to the top of each stick, which would help children remember the shepherds who visited the infant Jesus. In addition, he used the white colour of the converted sticks to teach children about the Christian belief in the sinless life of Jesus. From Germany, candy canes spread to other parts of Europe, where they were handed out during plays reenacting the Nativity. As such, according to this legend, the candy cane became associated with Christmastide.

The earliest verifiable reference to stick candy is a record of the 1837 Exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, where confections were judged competitively. A recipe for straight peppermint candy sticks, white with coloured stripes, was published in 1844. The “candy cane” is found in literature in 1866, though no description of color or flavor was provided. Its earliest known association with Christmas was in 1874, and by 1882 canes were being hung on Christmas trees.


So ... some Christian references, but nothing about the canes being a J for Jesus.


73 posted on 12/06/2018 12:06:19 PM PST by al_c (https://conventionofstates.com)
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To: caww

We definitely need to follow up on this story.


74 posted on 12/06/2018 12:06:20 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Red Badger
"Principal Bans Candy Canes Because ‘J’ Shape Stands For Jesus."

Did Yeshu spell his name with a "J"
75 posted on 12/06/2018 12:06:29 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: SaveFerris

http://www.dcpostgazette.com/news/elkhorn-resident-and-educator-to-be-new-manchester-principal/article_5b454b46-1844-11e8-95ec-b3ed09501ea4.html

https://tas.elkhornweb.org/elkhornweb/stafflist.cfm?school=16


76 posted on 12/06/2018 12:06:42 PM PST by maxsand
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To: caww
Te whole thing is nuts! my gosh if she wants Christmas decorations out of schools let her teach in a school system that doesn't celebrate it.

This just flies as the NWO idea of eliminating Christianity.

77 posted on 12/06/2018 12:07:19 PM PST by caww
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To: Red Badger; All
This is another example of abridgment of constitutionally enumerated rights by a state actor imo, 1st Amendment-protected religious expression and free speech in this case.

From the 14th Amendment:

H O W E V E R …

Unless Pres. Trump can successfully call out the RINO / Democratic-controlled House for scandalously ignoring its constitutional duty to support the Senate in making penal laws that discourage state actors from abridging constitutionally enumerated rights, then patriots who value their freedom of religious expression will need to wait until at least after 2020 elections for such protections.

78 posted on 12/06/2018 12:07:21 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: SaveFerris

“Let me add the MSM for a third offender.”


I would put the MSM first.

The press is the nourishment that the other two need to thrive.

The old days where we had a much more fair press are long gone.

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79 posted on 12/06/2018 12:07:29 PM PST by Mears
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To: Calvin Cooledge

Oh bull - you actually believed that you won?

You can have Christmas carols at a Christmas Concert so long as you include non-Christian ones?! Like some nice Islamic chants?


80 posted on 12/06/2018 12:07:38 PM PST by Skywise
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