Plano,Texas: Schools prohibit Christmas colors

WorldNetDaily ^ | December 15, 2004 | Ron Strom

[Kornev]

Heh.. Plano is perfectly safe. Although the kids have a lot of drug problems. The actual crime rate, jeez.. I can listen to Richardson and Dallas PD on my scanner and get much more excitement than Plano.

The drug problem among teens here is quite awful, and needs to be dealt with by means of capital punishment. Only way to stop these rich kids from trying it.

But otherwise, it's overall a great place to live in the DFW area. Probably the best.

[bonfire]

also a large nativiy in our town square with Christmas carols playin over loudspeakers!

[bonfire]

I loved TX but too darn many people now. Rooftops as far as the eye can see in Dallas area. Every bit of green space gone. Sad.

I REALLY REALLY miss the shopping!!! (REALLY!)

[Dataman]

They tried this in Minnesota a few years back. It didn't last long. This kind of insanity from the left only arouses sane people against it. Let the school district try to levy some tax money after this!

[Aquinasfan]

I can not believe what people will put up with just for "free" schooling.

Change the word "schooling" to "babysitting," and it all becomes clear.

[dr_pat]

Agnostic wishes you Merry Christmas bump!

[StopGlobalWhining]

The PC Nazis in Plano are at it again, one year later. I received the following via e-mail from a parent of elementary school children enrolled there:

... as a room mom we are banned from using the word "Christmas" and may not provide any snacks, crafts or decorations with a Christmas theme or motif. We have resorted to a snow theme with snowmen and snowflakes for our politically correct "winter" party next week.

This fight will never end. Last year the PISD lost it's legal battle. One year later they seem to have forgotten.

The good people in Plano ought to be PISD!

[BROKKANIC]

Ridiculous! Someone needs to make a Jesus snowman right in front of that school.

[demkicker]

Since you posted this, I'm holding you accountable. I could swear there was a posting exactly like this from last year, and it ended up being blown out of proportion and essentially bogus.

Since I've just stumbled upon this threat late tonight, I have no idea if it is true or not. Please, BROKKANIC, call this school, get the lowdown and post it here. If it is indeed true, I'll apologize and eat my words.

There are far too many rumors circulating and I'm very suspicious of this one. Doesn't sound like the Plano schools I'm familiar with, but if true, we need to know it.

[StopGlobalWhining]

I can assure you that the excerpt of the e-mail I posted is authentic.

[neutrino]

Simple solution. Pass around a rumor that the school endorses "White Power"; and that this is a hidden symbol.

Leave a few flyers on strategic copiers with all the "ahem" special symbols endorsing the idea.

That should have the mongrels in charge chasing their tails.

[daybreakcoming]

Some good news? Christmas card companies are saying they are facing a shortage due to an increased demand this year.

[StopGlobalWhining]

This e-mail was sent out by the school district and may be contributing to some confusion. But the e-mail exerpt I posted was not from a mass e-mail, it was to me and my wife personally from a room mom with whom we are very close:

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Plano ISD eNews [mailto:enews@pisd.edu]
>Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 6:24 PM
>To: @@@@@@@@@@@
>Subject: False Rumor - 'Red and Green Clothing Ban'
>
>Dear Plano ISD eNews Subscribers:
>
>On Friday, December 9, on the Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor,"
with
>Bill O'Reilly and guest Jim Pinkerton, Fox 4 News analyst, it was falsely
>reported in a segment entitled "More Victories for Christmas" that ...
>
>....."In Plano, Texas, a school told students they couldn't wear red and
>green because they are Christmas colors."......
>
>Due to the number of e-mails, inquiries and phone calls to Plano ISD
>regarding students "wearing red and green," Superintendent of Schools Dr.
>Doug Otto is e-mailing this communication to eNews subscribers (and has
>posted this message on the PISD website) to assure the school community
that
>this rumor is false.
>
>"The school district does not restrict students or staff from wearing
>certain color clothes during holiday times or any other school days," noted
>Dr. Otto, who said that the school district's attorney has requested that
>Mr. O'Reilly retract the statement.
>
>Dr. Otto said that our attorney requested of Mr. O'Reilly that, in the
>future, he ask his fact checkers to do a more thorough job of confirming
the
>facts before he airs them.
>
>"It would be our hope that you would engage in fair and balanced reporting
>of this nationally recognized school district in the future," PISD's
>attorney wrote to Mr. O'Reilly.
>
>Related Link:
>
>The O'Reilly Report - "More Victories for Christmas" - online segment
>summary:

>http://www.billoreilly.com/show?action=getShowByShowTopic&showTopicID=2252#1
>  
>  
>Thank you for subscribing to eNews. Your colleagues, friends and neighbors^M
>may sign up for eNews at: http://elist.pisd.edu. Archived messages may be^M
>found online at: http://www.pisd.edu/news/enews.  
>  
>Best regards,  
>  
>Doug Otto, Superintendent of Schools  
>Karla Oliver, Executive Director for Government and Community Relations
>Mary Gorden, Public Information Officer / eNews Editor
>

[paulat]

Wait a minute...isn't WHITE a RASCIST color???!!! I would have thought "plates of color" would be politically correct???!!!

[FreedomCalls]

>"The school district does not restrict students or staff from wearing
>certain color clothes during holiday times or any other school days," noted
>Dr. Otto

But wasn't the orginal complaint that the school district prohibited colored plates, napkins, and cake icing in red or green at the "winter holiday part" -- not that they banned colored clothes?

[StopGlobalWhining]

But wasn't the orginal complaint that the school district prohibited colored plates, napkins, and cake icing in red or green at the "winter holiday part" -- not that they banned colored clothes?

I apologize that I missed your posting over the Christmas break and am so late in replying.

Yes, you are correct, and below I am including segments of 2 e-mail exchanges I had with a room mother at one of the PISD elementary schools. This first one is from me to the room mother.

At 8:30 PM Eastern time O'Reilly on the Fox News Channel had about a 5 min segment on PISD and the Christmas celebration policies. That show is repeated here at 11 PM, so at 10:30 PM it should be on in Dallas.

Gregg Knight from KLIF radio (same station Darrel Ankarlo is on) was the guest and he explained that each school in the district chose their own policy. He singled out Thomas Elementary as the biggest offender.

Try to catch the show if you are around.

And her reply the next morning:

We watched this last night and I am glad the radio host told it like it is. I should have called or emailed O’Reilly yesterday and maybe I could have been a call-in on the show but at least the radio host told him about the “winter party” where we cannot have anything related to Christmas. I am off to the “winter party” this morning—last day of school today…. Bye!