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Massachusetts Principal Takes Aim at Fall Holidays, Says They're Insensitive
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Posted on 10/15/2011 4:57:51 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Massachusetts Principal Takes Aim at Fall Holidays, Says They're Insensitive

Published October 15, 2011 | FoxNews.com

An elementary school principal in Massachusetts has banned fall holidays, saying they’re insensitive, MyFoxBoston reported Friday.

Somerville principal: Fall holidays are insensitive: MyFoxBOSTON.com

Anne Foley, the principal at Kennedy School in Somerville, Mass., sent an email to teachers warning them about celebrating Thanksgiving, the Boston Herald reported.

"When we were young we might have been able to claim ignorance of the atrocities that Christopher Columbus committed against the indigenous peoples," Kennedy School Principal Anne Foley wrote.

"We can no longer do so. For many of us and our students celebrating this particular person is an insult and a slight to the people he annihilated. On the same lines, we need to be careful around the Thanksgiving Day time as well."

Teachers have already been told not to let students dress up for Halloween.

Parents told MyFoxBoston that they felt the principal was overreacting.

“My kids were brought up with Halloween and whatever have you. She has no right to tell these kids they can’t have it,” one woman told the station.

“The children, they need to express themselves and be children. Don’t take holidays and fun time away from them. They have so much homework. They don’t have enough play time,” another said.

Superintendant Tony Pierantozzi told The Herald that Halloween is “problematic” because of connections to witchcraft.

“I don’t think they should not be able to celebrate these holidays I mean this country was formed with the idea that everything is a free country, and they should be able to celebrate these holidays,” a Somerville woman told MyFoxBoston.

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KEYWORDS: christmas; columbusday; holiday; holidays; liberalidiots; ma; mass; massachusetts; publiceducation; publicschool; taxachusetts; thanksgiving
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FIRED.............
1 posted on 10/15/2011 4:57:52 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

You kiddin me? This is Massholistan. She’ll be superintendent by the end of the year.


2 posted on 10/15/2011 5:00:15 PM PDT by OCCASparky (Steely-eyed killer of the deep.)
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To: Sub-Driver

yet another candidate for tar and feathers


3 posted on 10/15/2011 5:01:16 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: OCCASparky

Vomit! These people are crazy. Silly stupid.


4 posted on 10/15/2011 5:03:14 PM PDT by plumcrazy
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To: Sub-Driver
I prefer to discuss issues with people in a calm and rational manner, but Anne Foley seems to be incapable of that.

As a result, my response to her is you **** censored *@*#$^.

Glad I got that off my chest, and apologize if my language offended you. :)

5 posted on 10/15/2011 5:03:23 PM PDT by ken in texas
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To: Sub-Driver

There are those times when I’m sure the world has gone totally bezerk! This is one of those times........


6 posted on 10/15/2011 5:04:24 PM PDT by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: Sub-Driver

>> “Christopher Columbus committed against the indigenous peoples,” Kennedy School Principal Anne Foley

Yeah, that hag has first-hand knowledge of what really occurred back then...

Save the USA, bust the Marxist grip on PE.


7 posted on 10/15/2011 5:04:48 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Save a pretzel for the gas jet.)
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To: Sub-Driver

“When we were young we might have been able to claim ignorance of the atrocities that Christopher Columbus committed against the indigenous peoples,” Kennedy School Principal Anne Foley wrote.

I always confront liberals with this terrible proposition- what do they think would have happened if Genghis Khan or Tamerlane would have found their way to the Americas instead? Or, perhaps the gentle ministrations of someone like Selim the Grim? And most certainly, the “indigenous peoples” were not saints and killed each other. Powhatan, when John Smith inquired who lived in the region of Accomack on the far side of Chesapeake Bay, indicated no one lived there after he had them all killed. This crap about Columbus arriving here and destroying some sort of paradise is exactly that- crap.


8 posted on 10/15/2011 5:06:20 PM PDT by GenXteacher (He that hath no stomach for this fight, let him depart!)
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To: Sub-Driver

I guess holy-days take away from the time to teach condom mastery to elementary school kids


9 posted on 10/15/2011 5:06:33 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Sub-Driver

Is that school going to be open for classes on Thanksgiving? At the very least hat clown ought to go to work that Thursday and Friday to attend to administrative matters.


10 posted on 10/15/2011 5:07:56 PM PDT by stevem
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To: Sub-Driver
I don't give a damn if they're "insensitive" or not. I reserve the right to observe them and observe them I do. I'm particularly fond of Thanksgiving - a most meaningful feast for America - Thanks to our Creator for the manifold blessings bestowed on this Nation.



Lamh Foistenach Abu!
11 posted on 10/15/2011 5:08:21 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: Gene Eric

Actually, CC never landed in the US............


12 posted on 10/15/2011 5:08:35 PM PDT by Sub-Driver (Proud member of the Republican wing of the Republican Party)
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To: GenXteacher

I always refer people to the Aztecs and Mayans as examples of the peaceful Native Americans. It is ignorant to think that war and violence was an invention of Europe.


13 posted on 10/15/2011 5:08:50 PM PDT by LukeL (Barack Obama: Jimmy Carter 2 Electric Boogaloo)
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To: Gene Eric
Save the USA, bust the Marxist grip on PE.

The crackpots are really coming out of the woodwork the last few years.

14 posted on 10/15/2011 5:10:04 PM PDT by oldbrowser (Democrats have no superego.)
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“I don’t think they should not be able to celebrate these holidays I mean this country was formed with the idea that everything is a free country, and they should be able to celebrate these holidays,” a Somerville woman told MyFoxBoston.

I agree...or maybe not. Somerville woman talks funny.

15 posted on 10/15/2011 5:15:59 PM PDT by socal_parrot (I hate to say I told you so, but...)
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To: Sub-Driver

A fellow FReeper provided an unbelievable accounting of alleged atrocities perpetrated by indigenous tribes of Northern America. Unfortunately, I don’t have a link to the post.


16 posted on 10/15/2011 5:18:17 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Save a pretzel for the gas jet.)
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To: oldbrowser

Well this particularly crackpot is no doubt a product of earlier crackpottery.


17 posted on 10/15/2011 5:20:53 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Save a pretzel for the gas jet.)
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To: LukeL

If even today, we met the Mayans, and Aztecs,,,and watched their slavery and human sacrifice,,,, wouldn’t we do our best to wipe them out or replace their culture with ours? It seems like a moral imperative to wipe out such a culture.

Left untouched,,the Aztecs would AT BEST evolve into a culture like the Cartels, Muslims, or gangs in Brazil.

Why the reverence for such savages?


18 posted on 10/15/2011 5:22:42 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: Sub-Driver

its’ Assachussettes- why so surprised?


19 posted on 10/15/2011 5:41:24 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5million pay no federal income tax then vote demoKrat)
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To: Gene Eric

From what I have read, the atrocities were demonic. There is a book by Peter Marshall/David Manuel, “The Light and the Glory” that spell it out pretty good.


20 posted on 10/15/2011 5:45:56 PM PDT by bubbacluck (Proud Hobbit with no intention of going back to Middle Earth.)
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