Posted on 12/24/2021 9:57:25 AM PST by Truth29
According to the school’s diversity page, there were songs that had been previously used that had a questionable past. One of the examples the school listed was “Jingle Bells.”
The school noted that other questionable songs were removed from the curriculum and “are no longer in our repertoire, and are replaced with more contemporary, and relevant content.”
The Beacon reports that the school’s decision was based on a 2017 article written by Boston University Professor Kyna Hamill. Hamill alleged she had found documents proving the song had first been performed publicly at a minstrel show in 1857.
When told of the primary school’s decision, the professor said she was stunned.
“I am actually quite shocked the school would remove the song from the repertoire. … I, in no way, recommended that it stopped being sung by children,” she told the newspaper. “My article tried to tell the story of the first performance of the song, I do not connect this to the popular Christmas tradition of singing the song now.”
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Wellll ... ... in NYC it would be “Jungle Bells.”
Now that I think back to when I was in elementary school singing that, I do have vague memories of questionable lyrics...I think I recall...
Jingle Bells
Batman Smells
Robin Laid an Egg
I think it was discriminatory against chickens
Talk about stupid! That is one of only a few “seasonal” songs which have no reference to Jesus, Christmas, or even Santa - but ANYTHING associated with Christmas cannot - must not - be allowed.
May it be that every time some public school board beclowns itself this way, another homeschooler emerges.
Home school bump.
Public schools are child abuse.
Offend the Woke.
Laugh when they protest.
Excellent. 100% correct.
A nation of a**h****.
I remember:
Jingle bells, shotgun shells. The rabbit got away...
Oh what fun it is to ride in a broke down Chevrolet - hey!
Like anyone actually wrote that down...
I’m not sure why “Jingle Bells” got the axe. I never much cared for it, but it isn’t religious and as far as I recall it doesn’t embody any ethnic stereotypes. Maybe the problem is that even secular Christmas songs are no longer welcome.
Jingle bells
Santa smells
Rudolph ran away
This version would probably make blood come out of their ears: a twofer of “Deck the Harrs” and “Jinger Berrs”.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xTq20prt0K8
No seatbelts?
And discriminatory against men who identify as bats...
Communist Chinese Cultural Revolution.
The people must be severed from all prior points of reference.
Pure Evil.
“In its day, Pierpont’s tune was the equivalent of a Beach Boy’s song about fast cars, pretty girls and sneaking off to be together in private—a sleigh was one of the few places where a young couple could be alone and unsupervised.”
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