Posted on 12/17/2019 5:40:58 PM PST by marshmallow
Parents of children at a primary school in Essex are appalled after the head teacher ruled that children should sing ‘baby boy Jesus’ rather than ‘little Lord Jesus’ in the Christmas carol, Away in a Manger - so that pupils of all beliefs can join in.
Pupils at Whitehall Primary School in Chingford, Essex, have also been told to sing edited versions of two modern hymns when they attend a carol service and nativity at a nearby church on Tuesday.
One mother of children at the school, Margarita said: “I picked my children up at the end of the day and they were so upset, saying to me: ‘Mummy, today in assembly the head teacher told everybody that she would be changing the words to the Christmas song.’ I was so shocked. As a family we go to church, pray together and celebrate Christmas as the birth of Jesus as the Son of God.”
Headteacher, Zakia Khatun, had announced in the assembly that that reason for the change was so that ‘all pupils can participate in the celebration’. Many other parents and staff at the school are unhappy about what has happened.
One parent told the Daily Mail the changes were utterly unacceptable and likened it to taking 'Christ' out of Christmas.
The mother, 36, said: “If he was just a baby boy named Jesus, there wouldn't be a celebration in the first place. He is our Lord and Saviour and King of all Kings – that's the whole point.
“It is also a tradition – it is taking away the traditions of the country.”
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Did the children follow the instruction or ignore it and keep singing the song as written?
We are heading in that direction too, here in the states.
Where full and open celebration of a Christian Holy Day becomes redefined as a potential Hate Crime.
Some already treat it that way, so very worried about offending a non-Christian. Never mind how we might feel having our traditions thoughtlessly discarded.
This most likely influences many young people who have been brainwashed in schools to feel ‘uncomfortable’ around any serious discussion of what it means to be a Christian.
12 continuous years of brainwashing, and indoctrination is hard, but not impossible to overcome.
“...Headteacher, Zakia Khatun...”
That says enough, right there....
What’s next? “Joy to the world, the —— has come”?
Pure idiocy. Liberal idiocy.
Let us celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, without which all of us would burn in hell forever.
I noticed that, too.
“likened it to taking ‘Christ’ out of Christmas.”
Merry X-mas
Wait untill they figure the ‘mass’ is also a christian term.
To my Catholic friends. Have a plesant Christ’s Mass.
“What’s next? “Joy to the world, the —— has come”?”
Dawn We Now Our Gay Apparel
Merry X-mas
Wait untill they figure the ‘mass’ is also a christian term.
And that the "X" stands for the cross = Christ.
Don’t want Islamonazis to get triggered
>>Headteacher, Zakia Khatun, had announced
Did ‘e now? And who told ‘im to sod off?
Plato told us that the State should not be involved in education. We have never learned
Then don’t sing it at all. And cancel all December programs for choirs, bands, dramas, or any show that is there to entertain parents. Then the teachers can spend time teaching rather than promoting political views. If you can’t teach things to be done as their wee written, then how can the instruction for the Conmstitution be trusted as correct...or English, foreign languages, history.....might as well do graham crackers and milk all day long surrounded by recces. Hard to mess those things up with politics so they can lie to the kids,
rwood
This would be called compelled speech here in the US. Too bad the UK doesn’t have a bill of rights.
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