Posted on 11/16/2007 9:15:01 AM PST by Para-Ord.45
A Winchester principal who bowed to some parents’ objections and scrubbed a seventh-grade field trip to “Miracle on 34th Street” said the classic Christmas tale is too focused on Santa Claus and doesn’t tie into the school’s curriculum.
McCall Middle School Principal Evander French Jr. has axed the trip to a Dec. 19 performance of the play at the Stoneham Theatre, a Scrooge-like move that has angered parents.
“The people who complained were concerned about the very narrow focus on Santa Claus,” French said yesterday...
On Friday, an e-mail was sent to parents telling them the trip was canceled. French wrote that he was recently asked why the entire seventh-grade class was going to the play “when the basic theme is objectionable to some members of our McCall Middle School seventh-grade community.”
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It’s almost pitchfork and torches time.
Mass. does teach grade school kids that two guys getting “married” and adopting little boys is the cat`s meow though.
What ya` think about that ?
It`s like Charlton Heston, watching monkey`s riding ponies!
Mext week in diversity class the entire school wil honor all peoples/cultures by foot washing and burkas all around for the girls. We must understand priorities ...... only the gubmint educrats have enough “wisdom” to discern. (dripping sarcasm)
Waike up ameeericaaaa....
Parents would be well-served to yank their kids out of school that day and take them to the play themselves. It would be really priceless if that was one of the days headcount was taken to apportion funds.
It went past that time a long time ago
These people are so tiresome...
“very narrow focus on Santa Claus”?
I didn’t get that from seeing the original version.
It's having the opposite effect.
ditto
“These people are so tiresome...
And they are tireless.
Screw ‘em. Them shoving this PC crap down my throat is making me less tolerant toward everybody toward whom I’m expected to be PC.
It’s having the opposite effect.
Exactly, I HATE PC CRAP!!!
YEPPERS.....me too!
Yeh, but showing these same little-heads-of-mush Algore’s Inconvenient Truth” is just fine!
IF Santa Claus was teaching the little girl how to put a condom on a banana, though, or that believing in God is like believing in, well,....Santa,...., then that would be totally acceptable and classes would be mandated to see it (with no opt-out).
TO Educrat: “Get your HANDS off him, you DAMN DIRTY APE!”
What’s he going to say, according to Darwin he’s technically true...
I don’t know the answer to this so I’m just asking — is it possible that a Jewish family objected or even a Christian family that doesn’t do the Santa thing at Christmas? Narrow docus on Santa = no focus on the birth of Jesus?
< /Fred Gailey>
Oddly enough, this guy picked the most banal and secular of the classic Christmas movies as the basis for taking this stand.
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