These are the nimrods teaching your kids.
Someone that dim should not be allowed within shouting distance of a child, and we’re paying them to mold your kid’s little brain.
Good luck.
A society where politically correct considerations outweigh everything else cannot survive for long. Death spiral.
Since when is the freedom of the majority constrained solely for the benefit of the sensitivities of an individual or very small group of hypersensitive individuals. What about the sensitivities of the majority?
It is also subject to copyright. The school is liable for royalties if singing Happy Birthday is done on a regular basis.
Welcome to Modern America.
Islam?
This is quite possibly, the single, most stupid act ever committed ever committed by a so-called human being.
“singing is not permitted due to the sensitivity of all student beliefs.”
Not Christian beliefs because we all know the school systems have banned Christianity.
There is nothing in it about "separation of ISLAM and the state."
As a matter of fact, Islam IS the state.
Sharia.
Brought to you by the Separation of Church And State Atheists and Leftists of America.
You couldn’t find a bigger load of irony if you dug out the entire core of planet earth. (Oh, that’s iron. Well, you know what I mean.)
What about reciting the multiplication table out loud? What if that offends somebody?
They really want these kids to be robots. I mean soon they will have plastic all around them. It is unbelievable what is going on in these schools.
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I don't care that the order was rescinded.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.
Because not everyone is lucky enough to have a birthday.
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.”
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 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.