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Spokane (WA) school newsletter omits Christmas from December dates
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| 11/30/07
Posted on 11/30/2007 1:41:35 PM PST by teacherwoes
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To: teacherwoes
"It was absolutely an error of omission," district spokeswoman Terren Roloff said. "In our efforts to be inclusive, we missed the obvious."Yeah, right!
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posted on
11/30/2007 1:45:06 PM PST
by
50mm
(Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist - G. Carlin)
To: teacherwoes
"Our focus is education," she said....but we're too ignorant to remember the date of the Christmas holiday
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posted on
11/30/2007 1:45:48 PM PST
by
madison10
To: teacherwoes
I’m not as bothered by the fact that they missed Christmas as I am by the fact that included Kwaanza and other religious holidays.
Everyone knows when Christmas is. It’s a federal holiday, and nearly everyone gets the day off. (I heard that some Jewish-owned companies work on Christmas, which just seems strange to me.)
Wasn’t Kwaanza started by some rapist or something?
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posted on
11/30/2007 1:49:17 PM PST
by
RussP
To: Libertina; rahbert; luckymom; Paperdoll; gandalftb; acoulterfan; KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; ...
Say WA? Evergreen State ping
FReepmail sionnsar if you want on or off this ping list.
Ping sionnsar if you see a Washington state related thread.
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posted on
11/30/2007 1:50:33 PM PST
by
sionnsar
(trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
To: teacherwoes
Hanukkah, Human Rights Day, winter break, the Islamic holy day
Eid al-Adha, first day of winter and Kwanzaa all made the list.
But no Christmas.
Yeah, Hanukkah and Eid al-Adha aren't holidays associated with
particular religions.
So I guess it's right-thinking to even leave off the reason
we have an actual HolyDay celebration on Dec. 25th.
Because it is.
(/SARC!)
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posted on
11/30/2007 1:50:50 PM PST
by
VOA
To: SeaDragon
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posted on
11/30/2007 1:51:41 PM PST
by
RikaStrom
(The number one rule of the Kama Sutra is that you both be on the same page.../Exeter 051705)
To: RussP
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posted on
11/30/2007 1:52:10 PM PST
by
sionnsar
(trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
To: RussP
“Wasnt Kwaanza started by some rapist or something?”
It was some felon cab driver. I used to have the story saved, but can;t find it now.
If someone has “the story of Kwanza” please post. It’s jolly!
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posted on
11/30/2007 1:52:39 PM PST
by
wilco200
To: RussP
“Wasnt Kwaanza started by some rapist or something?”
See linked story below (tip of the hat to David Horowitz/FrontPageMag).
Some time when I lived in Los Angeles (1995-2005), one of the free
“alternative” weekly new/advert papers did a story on him.
(The “alternative” papers were a MUCH better source of what was
really going on in LA than the LA Times!).
IIRC, the investigative reporter learned that the LA Times archival
copies of Karenga’s assault on two women have “gone missing”.
But he’s surely turned himself around. He’s probably banking over
$100K/yr as a department chairman at a state U.
(/SARC)
Seriously, he’s an example of why we should have universities and
tenure. To serve as ghettos where tenured revolutionaries grow indolent
and less dangerous with frequent faculty club “all you can eat”
caviar and champagne.
Too bad decent students have to suffer with guys like this though.
Ron Karenga
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2222
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posted on
11/30/2007 2:00:39 PM PST
by
VOA
To: teacherwoes
Parents, pull your kids from that school and tell the administration you’ll return them when the calendar is corrected. If enough parents cause financial hardship for the district, they’ll listen.
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posted on
11/30/2007 2:02:38 PM PST
by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: teacherwoes
“Christmas is so dominant in our society. I don’t know that anyone should feel slighted,” Harper said......Sure!
To: wilco200
"Dr. Karenga" the founder of kakawanza, in the late 60's, is a professor at a kalifornia univeristy. He founded kakawanza, after he graduated from the university of san quentin.
He is not as infamous as the two other black con men, but hey, they didn't invent their own holiday.
karenga believes he has scammed more blacks than sharpton, but admits to being a distant second the the black, hair-lipped, grifter in chief, jesse "hymetown" jackson.
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posted on
11/30/2007 2:13:41 PM PST
by
USS Alaska
(Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
To: madison10
Washington State Public School System!
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posted on
11/30/2007 2:16:31 PM PST
by
captnorb
To: teacherwoes
You can bet they wouldn’t miss putting the date Pproperty taxes were due on any calender.
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posted on
11/30/2007 2:18:05 PM PST
by
TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
(There once was a dream called, "Hippy Beat Down." The mere whisper of if caused cops to weep.)
To: RikaStrom
To: RussP
A bogus made up “holiday”. And including any muzzie cult date is an insult to civilization.
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posted on
11/30/2007 2:43:15 PM PST
by
isrul
To: sionnsar
From the link (thanks) you posted above:
Kwanzaa is the ultimate chump holiday -- Jim Crow with a false and festive wardrobe.
That pretty much says it all.
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posted on
11/30/2007 3:19:22 PM PST
by
upchuck
(Hildabeaste as Prez... unimaginable, devastating misery! She will redefine "How bad can it get?")
To: teacherwoes
in an age of political correctness, Christians are being overlooked in favor of other cultures and beliefs. Christians are not being overlooked; they're being disrespected, as is our Lord and Savior. May He forgive them for what they do.
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posted on
11/30/2007 3:40:36 PM PST
by
MSSC6644
(Defeat Satan. Pray the Rosary)
To: metmom; Tired of Taxes; DaveLoneRanger; Aquinasfan
It says much about public education that most people aren’t even surprised by things like this.
I thought The Grinch Who Stole Christmas was a fictional character. Looks like we found Another Reason To Homeschool.
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posted on
11/30/2007 4:17:45 PM PST
by
Clintonfatigued
(You can't be serious about national security unless you're serious about border security)
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