[NYer]

The Jewish and Islamic symbols are allowed, the district says, because they have a secular dimension, but the Christian symbols are "purely religious."

The secular menorah.

The religious nativity.

[maryz]

That "menorah" you're showing is actually a chanukiyah. The menorah is 7-branched; the chanukiyah has 8 lights for the 8 days the lamps in the Temple miraculously burned and the (I think) "shomer" to light them from.