Posted on 12/06/2018 11:08:40 AM PST by Red Badger
If jolly old Saint Nick were a real person who had a real naughty and nice list, Nebraska school principal Jennifer Sinclair would most definitely be getting nothing but coal in her stocking this year.
Sinclair has went on an anti-Christmas rampage, banning candy canes because their “J” shape represents Jesus, the reason for the season. However, that was just the beginning.
What kinds of items, you ask? Liberty Counsel provided a memo from principal Jennifer Sinclair that spelled out in detail all the verboten paraphernalia at Manchester Elementary School in Omaha:
Santas or Christmas items (clip art) on worksheets Christmas trees in classrooms
Elf on the Shelf — that’s Christmas-related
Singing Christmas carols
Playing Christmas music
Sending a Scholastic book that is a Christmas book — that’s Christmas-related
Making a Christmas ornament as a gift —This assumes that the family has a Christmas tree which assumes they celebrate Christmas. I challenge the thought of, “Well they can just hang it somewhere else.”
Candy Cane — that’s Christmas-related. Historically, the shape is a “J” for Jesus. The red is for the blood of Christ, and the white is a symbol of his resurrection. This would also include different colored candy canes.
Red/Green items — traditional Christmas colors Reindeer
Christmas videos/movies and/or characters from Christmas movies
Sinclair — who’s in her first year as Manchester’s principal — noted in the memo that she “come[s] from a place that Christmas and the like are not allowed in schools” and that “as a public school” Manchester Elementary will be seek to be “inclusive and culturally sensitive to all of our students.”
“I have unknowingly awoken a ‘sleeping giant’ with many of you,” she added. “I apologize for the stress that ‘Christmas/holiday/ Grinch/Santa/tree’ emails and conversations have caused you.”
So what exactly is Sinclair allowing at the school? Prepare yourself. This is going to make your blood boil a bit:
Gifts to students
Students making a gift for a loved one
Snowmen, snow women, snow people, snowflakes Gingerbread people
Holidays Around the World — purposeful presentation of information to teach about different cultures
Sledding
Hot chocolate
Polar Bears
Penguins
Scarves, boots, earmuffs, and hats
Yetis
Olaf — “Frozen”
No Santa. No Jesus. But yetis? Absolutely!
This woman might just be certifiably insane. Just throwing that out there before we continue down this long, painful journey into the rabbit hole of progressive thinking.
Liberty Counsel sent a demand letter to the superintendent of Elkhorn Public Schools about the Christmas ban, urging it to “immediately overrule and specifically disavow the sweeping directive banning Christmas holiday items, and require Principal Sinclair to undertake review of District policy and the law.”
Shockingly, the district responded to Liberty Counsel, saying they investigated the matter themselves and found Sinclair’s policies to be in violation of Board Policy, information Manchester staffers that “certain Christmas symbols” were indeed permissible.
Sinclair is fairly young to be a principal and this indicates quite clearly that she is a product of an education system that has brainwashed her into being a good little statist robot.
They have convinced her that separation of church and state means no religious influence on government policy or on government property. That’s not true. It means no official church denomination for the United States. Nothing more.
This is why much of the battle we’re fighting for the culture needs to be done on college campuses, public schools, and in the entertainment industry. This is where the propaganda is being spread and how the ideas are getting planted in young folks head.
Here’s to hoping more victories for religious liberty down the pike.
They are called candy canes because they are shaped like CANES.
To say the candies are shaped like “J’s” is the absolute dumbest thing I have heard since last night...
Public school teachers. They work in a world where nothing is real. Everything important in that world is not very important in the real world.
My girlfriend said, “The minute deadlines didn’t count in public school, the entire education system fell apart, and the kids lost all respect for it.”
Amen.
The liberals are always against one thing, when push-comes-to-shove.
Well, and Israel too. Which fits.
I don’t know why she doesn’t look for a job in some deep blue school district, one with lots of “diversity.” No one would care enough in a school like that to complain.
And if the system she was in before didn’t have Christmas, why didn’t she stay? Maybe she thought it was okay to import her ideas elsewhere.
Good news. This probably isn't the first stupid thing she's done or said or they wouldn't have acted so quickly.
Guessing the Italian flag is also forbidden. No spaghetti on school lunch trays, either.
The taxpayers are the boss, fire his a## and take his pension
Sad looking husband and kids.
So, no religious freedom on public land, only on private land?
How about free speech?
Administrative leave? She should be fired, driven from city, and forced to wear a scarlet ‘C’ for “creep.”
I didn’t say I don’t think it’s Constitutional, or that people should be prevented from religious exercise in a government office or organization. I just don’t think government facilities, especially schools, are a particularly appropriate venue for religious observances.
When people invest too much of what should be their private lives into a governmental organization (or a corporation), they run into conflicts, but more importantly, they divert resources from the family, the community, and the religious congregation.
Heads just make the branches sag too much.
Only someone who lies on her back too much while gazing at Christmas trees would come up with such a notion.
Seeing that the letter “J” is a fairly modern addition to the alphabet and the name Jesus was before that spelled as “Iesus”, maybe we should ban anything in the shape of the letter “I” also.
This won’t stop until Christians decide to unite and end this liberal hypocrisy.
The amount of apathy in our country is stunning.
Looks like she started teaching right out of Univ of Nebraska, used the school benefit to get her M.E. from Doane College and was promoted recently.
Just strange out warped many principals’ worldview becomes once they hit Administration. Much more leftists than they were in HS.
Will be on the fast track to Administration where she could really screw up a school system.
“Sinclair is fairly young to be a principal and this indicates quite clearly that she is a product of an education system that has brainwashed her into being a good little statist robot”
Yeppers. One of THE best things Trump could do is abolish the Dept. of Ed. and return it to the states.
“The Deliberate Dumbing Down of American Education” -by Charlotte Iserbyte. 750 pages of sourced documentation.
Given her “logic” in banning candy canes, shouldn’t she also ban the use of the letters J, C, & G, which might refer to Jesus, Christ, & God. I’d love to hear her explanation as to why these letters should not be banned.
This loon needs to be out of the school & back to the lake. The parents of students need to make this happen.
“District spokeswoman Kara Perchal released a statement on behalf of the district indicating that as of Thursday Sinclair had been placed on administrative leave. “
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