School district bans holiday decorations

[OC]

YONKERS, New York (AP) -- Public schools in this New York City suburb have banned decorations specific to one holiday, including Christmas trees and Hanukkah menorahs.

Interim Superintendent Angelo Petrone directed officials last week to remove all decorations that go beyond a generic "Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings."

Holiday assemblies featuring religious songs, poems and reports on holidays will still be permitted, district spokesman Eric Schoen said.

Marla Hurban, a member of the Yonkers PTA Council, said teachers scrapped lesson plans involving holiday decorations and took down bulletin boards loaded with children's artwork.

When word of the order began to spread, "anybody who heard it thought it was a joke at first," said Amanda Pendleton, who has a daughter in fifth grade. "Then they had to literally tear everything off the walls."

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Someone please tell me - how does this benefit our kids? I think I may just send Interim Superintendent Petrone a nasty email.
http://www.yonkerspublicschools.org/writesupe.htm

-OC

[cheapie]

:angry: :mad: :splat: :thumbdown

that's how i feel about these idiots!

[Speedfreak]

This is stupid:

Holiday assemblies featuring religious songs, poems and reports on holidays will still be permitted, district spokesman Eric Schoen said.

So you can't have Christmas or Hanukkah decorations, but you can sing songs that some would be all about Jesus.


Pretty lame.

[TofuNinja]

If they have banned all decorations that are specific to ONE holiday does that mean no Turkeys and Pilgrims at THanksgiving, No dragons on Chinese New Year, NO Four Leaf clovers and Laupercons on St. Patricks day, no Ghost, zombies, candy, witches, and spiders for Halloween, no posters of Martin Luther King on his day, no pictures of dead presidents on President's day (including pictures of Washington and Lincoln on their days), No hearts on Valintine's day.... this is stupid....and what about Black History month... no more picture of famous black people....great.

[Speedfreak]

Originally posted by TofuNinja
If they have banned all decorations that are specific to ONE holiday does that mean no Turkeys and Pilgrims at THanksgiving, No dragons on Chinese New Year, NO Four Leaf clovers and Laupercons on St. Patricks day, no Ghost, zombies, candy, witches, and spiders for Halloween, no posters of Martin Luther King on his day, no pictures of dead presidents on President's day (including pictures of Washington and Lincoln on their days), No hearts on Valintine's day.... this is stupid....and what about Black History month... no more picture of famous black people....great.

I think they are coming from more of a religious standpoint. Not wanting to offend other religions and all. Still stupid.

[TofuNinja]

Well little men in green hats that produce rainbow out of their pots of gold and turn things into Marshmellows offends me....Damn them. ALways after me lucky charms.

[Speedfreak]

Originally posted by TofuNinja
Well little men in green hats that produce rainbow out of their pots of gold and turn things into Marshmellows offends me....Damn them. ALways after me lucky charms.

All you have to do is pour milk on them and they will go away. ;)

[TofuNinja]

Is that the trick....to bad I am lactose intolerant...will SOy Milk work?

[Speedfreak]

Not sure. Never tried. I imagine any "wet" will do. ;)

[revil]

Originally posted by Speedfreak
Not sure. Never tried. I imagine any "wet" will do. ;)
no kidding. this morning i was out of clean bowls and ran out of milk. so i just dumped the remaining cereal in to the toilet bowl and began to feast.....





:puke:
...i don't think any "wet" will work....

[cheapie]

uh oh. we're coming dangerously close to making this a "potty-thread". lol.

[Pinkgirl36]

Originally posted by revil

no kidding. this morning i was out of clean bowls and ran out of milk. so i just dumped the remaining cereal in to the toilet bowl and began to feast.....





:puke:
...i don't think any "wet" will work.... OH MY GOSH I thought you were serious!


Then I realized who wrote it...:P

[Speedfreak]

Originally posted by revil

no kidding. this morning i was out of clean bowls and ran out of milk. so i just dumped the remaining cereal in to the toilet bowl and began to feast.....





:puke:
...i don't think any "wet" will work....

Now, now. Don't tell me I have to explain the obvious as I would have to do on some other boards.

[whitak24]

christmas trees are actually pagan in origin (or so i'm told), so those should still be ok :P

[Nija]

Originally posted by whitak24
christmas trees are actually pagan in origin (or so i'm told), so those should still be ok :P

don't you know, you can be religious, but you can't support anything related to paganism. then you are different and the MIB's will start watching you, and eventually you will be linked to Afganastan.

[sbp]

So much for tolerance and diversity. And as its been pointed out, this lame move isn't even consistent.

Christmas trees and Hanukkah are now the same holiday? :confused:

Oh well at least that fat b@stard Santa wasn't banned this year in Kensington.
http://www.gotapex.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35102

[Grimm]

Hmmmm... I thought the idea was to tollerate all, not prohibit the popular ones. Silly me.

[molecularfire]

If they're trying to get rid of the religious aspect, why are they keeping the songs. Anyways, Christmas has gotten so commercialized that even I don't consider it a religious holiday anymore. :shrug: