Plano is extremely multi cultural as I said in my original post. My children went through PISD K - 12, and we have no complaints, none at all. It's hardly "liberal" It's simply a highly competent, professionally run district that has excellent results. My kids each entered college as juniors because of the amount of AP credit they ammassed in the PISD.
I'm afraid , though, with all this ruckus going on about
freedom of expression at Christmas in the schools, that there will be a multitude of unintended consequences. How long will it be before we will have solstice parties and Ramadan feasting? I'm paying property taxes to PISD to educate my children well. period. My children's religious education is MY responsibility. I doubt that there are a lot of Christian parents with kids in PISD that would welcome religious expressions from other religions, but that is what we are going to have now, I'm afraid.
If PISD was smart, they would change their policy to NO classroom celebrations and be done with it.
Well then, lets not stop there. Cancel the winter (Christmas) break alltogether! Spring break too.
I'm afraid , though, with all this ruckus going on about freedom of expression at Christmas in the schools, that there will be a multitude of unintended consequences. How long will it be before we will have solstice parties and Ramadan feasting?
So we teach the children that freedom of expression is granted by the state and not God.
I'm paying property taxes to PISD to educate my children well. period.
Perhaps you might just want to examine what this totalitarian ban is teaching you children, hmmmmmmm? So we say we can't have freedom of expression at Christmas???? Thats stupid.
Yes, but the schools can never be "neutral" or "areligious" and who would want them to be?! I wouldn't want my child educated in a watered down, censored, and timid school that is afraid of religion or controversial ideas. The only ulimate solution to avoid this is to abolish the public schools or, at least have school choice. Your "let's ban all religion" solution is a recipe for mediocrity and dumbing down to the lowest common denominator.
Isn't Plano the Teen Suicide Capital of Texas, with more high-schoolers killing themselves there than anywhere else in the state? There's something sick about the north Dallas conspicuous-consumption culture. I wouldn't think that exposure to too much religion should be one of the major worries in that area.