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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.

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
>