Posted on 08/26/2010 8:56:17 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
No, this time it’s the Jehovah Witnesses. They don’t celebrate birthdays, and the principal is married to a JW, so she’s very “sensitive” to it, apparently.
If anyone in any company I ever worked for sent a letter out to our “customers” (that is what parents are) it would have shown a total lack of common sense and they would have been fired immediately.
I don't care that the order was rescinded. The Principal's initial actions show a complete lack of understanding and at that level we need better people.
Fire the SOB today.
Maybe Jehovah Witness, my son had a little girl in his class who got classroom birthday cupcakes banned.
Because not everyone is lucky enough to have a birthday.
I went to the site and read the whole article. I was correct, the principal is married to a Jehovah Witness.
OMG!!! Can the schools GET any stupider???
When I was teaching school in FL (I've gotten OUT of that viper's nest!) they had a "reading" class in which the students were required to have a book open in front of them. They weren't required (nor could you ask them) to read aloud (so you could diagnose and correct any reading problems they might have) because it was insensitive!!
And, we wonder why the kids are coming out of school dumber than when they went in!!
“Now, from what I can tell, this whole idea was the principal’s own born of her marriage to a member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, a faction that eschews birthday celebrations.”
Islamic version?…
”Happy Bombing to You” is allowed
>>Maybe Jehovah Witness, my son had a little girl in his class who got classroom birthday cupcakes banned.<<
WOW!
We have many JWs in our school. They live in a group in the condos near my house. They are very sweet. They don’t make waves at all. Their kids don’t go to school on party days nor celebrate anyone’s birthday. BUT not a single complaint about anyone celebrating.
I guess this might be in the school’s future.
Glad I homeschool.
Take it to its logical ends, parents. Hammer this school.
If “sensitivity to ALL student beliefs” is the new criteria NOT to do something, then those kids will not be doing ANYTHING all day. You will not find ONE issue ALL PARENTS/students believe in.
Go and start saying you can’t teach evolution because Christian parents don’t believe it. Start that you can’t have a pagan Winter Solstice ceremony (that’s replaced Christmas because the atheists complained). Let these school morons hang by their own stupid, stupid logic.
When they try to make excuses, bring up all the other times YOU lost something to another group and expose them to their own hypocrisy. Force them to be consistent. Use their own words against them. Take them to court if necessary.
I ended up homeschooling. :)
I swear, I thought this was going to be your article.
We don’t celebrate Halloween. When my boys were in elementary school (before we started homeschooling), I simply informed his teachers that we didn’t celebrate. Any kind of artwork my boys did was “fall-themed” and not halloween-themed. The other kids did their thing. My kids went to the library during the school’s halloween parade. I would never have considered trying to get the celebration banned because it offended me.
My kids’ teachers were. great about it. We also did the same thing around Christmas. We didn’t celebrate Santa, so I sat my kids down and explained how others celebrate, and I stressed the importance of being sensitive to the other kids’ feelings and not trying to impose our beliefs on the rest of the class. It worked beautifully. Just a little damn common sense is all it takes to get along.
Good for you and me!!!
Nope, see Snopes
I thought about that. I knew a JW and they are NUTS!
I’ve known a few too. They are strange, but not usually assertive about forcing others to conform to their beliefs. They’ll try to coax you into it, but they don’t seem to be like Muslims, devoted to controlling others’ behavior.
The one guy I knew did. He didn’t celebrate birthdays or Christmas so he tried to make people work Christmas and tried to make people not celebrate each other’s birthdays. A JW’s excuse is, “It isn’t in the Bible.” Neither is taking a piss but they still do that. I fired the guy once he tried that BS with me and I told him to keep his beliefs to himself as others have the right to exercise theirs.
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