My child was told a couple years ago, that his class would not be having a Christmas party at school because one of the little kids in the class Jehovah Wittiness and did not celebrate Christmas. All the other classes in that grade were having a party. Bullsh!t was my answer, and I told them they were not going to punish 20 something kids because of one. That they should respect that families beliefs but that it should not interfere with others beliefs. I suggested they send the child and any others who did not want to participate to the library for the day, or let them stay home, or find a place where the children could watch movies. I have worked with individuals that were Jehovah wittiness before. It did not stop us from having our workplace celebrations, Christmas, birthdays etc. We all went ahead with it, and respected that this employee would not participate, and no one was ever offended. The school still didn't agree and said it was the teachers decision. So myself and a couple other parents showed up at the school that day, with cookies, gift bags, cupcakes, and handed them out to the kids anyway. Then I told the teacher--at lest you can tell her parents that you didn't have a party and that you couldn't really stop the other parents from bringing the goodies in. Also after Christmas break my kid will no longer be in your class. (her classroom had a tree and was decorated with Christmas stuff) Guess the parents didn't think to complain about that.
? Anyways, pretty lame to take down the tree, just a tree after all. Someone mentioned that the US was founded on Christian religion? You could say that, but we also have freedom of religion as well, thank goodness.
