Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Christmas it is!

Winter vacation or Christmas holidays...which is it?


Our community made the news last week...big time!

Our local school board voted unanimously to rename the annual winter break...
Christmas holidays.  

In the rest of the province...it is simply called winter break.  

It seems the school board thought we have gone a little too far with political correctness...
and should acknowledge why we are having a break at the end of December.  

How brave of our school trustees!

I applaud them for taking a stand to keep Christ in Christmas.

18 comments:

  1. Amen! There was a wonderful letter to the editor in our morning paper where the writer suggested that she, as a Christian, had no problem calling objects from other faiths by their rightful names. She didn't call menorahs "candlesticks" nor did she call mosques "meeting places" and on she went. Her premise was to call everything by its rightful name: A Christmas vacation not a winter holiday or a Christmas tree not a community tree. I'm very impressed with your local school board. Very!

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  2. Quite right too, well done your school board.

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  3. Judy, I congratulate your
    school board for keeping Christ in Christmas. I have never used the shortened form of Christmas (as popularized on Christmas cards). I agree with the woman Vee wrote about. It's a wonderful opportunity we have in this day and age to learn about other cultures and faiths. Whole communities have sometimes come together celebrate Christmas in interfaith services and in sharing these times we learn to respect each other and to grow together. I've been saddened to hear that some schools are no longer having Christmas concerts. I hope this will decision will set a precedent and somehow guide us back to those special nights when all the parents were proud to watch their children sing Christmas carols together at the school's Christmas concert!

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  4. This is fantastic news! I pray that more school boards will follow suit. Your school board should be commended!

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  5. I am so impressed with your school board too. I like what the editor in Vee's local paper said. Common sense does at times prevail.. .go figure.

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  6. I saw the news report, Judy, and was encouraged! Perhaps other school districts will take this up too.

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  7. Makes me proud to have been a former resident!

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  8. Bravo for your school board for being strong enough to voice their convictions! Keeping Christ in Christmas is sonething we should all be mindful of among all the holiday hype.

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  9. This is great news! Political correctness has a way of making everything meaningless for fear of offense.

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  10. I am IMPRESSED! I hope the decision is getting the positive recognition it deserves!

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  11. I agree with the idea that things of faith should be called by their proper name. The slippery slope comes when another faith group become a majority, and suddenly Ramadam/Hannakkah/Dwaili vacation is being celebrated by the local school board instead of Christmas vacation.

    With that niggling in the back of my mind, I actually prefer schools to call their vacations "Winter Semester Break" and "Spring Semester Break". If individuals want to use the time to be Merry about Christmas or Happy about Hannukkah...that remains their personal choice and not one should have a problem with that.

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  12. I am very impressed with your school board and I do hope that more school boards will follow suit.

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  13. Good decision. Call it what it is. It's interesting that the way thigs are going... every religion gets its recognigion, but Christianity somehow is made to feel like we will offend someone.

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  14. Good for them! It's still Christmas vacation here on the Island and the school concerts are called Christmas concerts.

    Vee makes a good point!

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  15. Hat's off to these sane board members! It is what it is...Christmas! Thus Christmas break is the truth! Love it!

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