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Re: Christmas and Schools
Yan, you stated places about the deep South.
Yes, oh the lovely Bible Belt. I live in the Bible Belt, but yes things have changed greatly since I was a young even. I live in a place where the Christians often belittle those not of that faith.
But the world is becoming more and more politically correct. Things are losing their spirit. We live in a world where people sue each other just for looking at someone the wrong way and calling it slander yet you can't sue them for forcing you to the point of being uncomfortable just because you dont believe in Jesus.
Here in the south, public schools still aren't seperated from religion. Proof in point: my school's Bible class. It was 'intended' to be about the Bible being literature when it turned out to be taught by a local minister. It is now just a 'bible study' course instead of what it was intended to be.
Easter break got changed to Spring Break and then they moved it away from the weekend of Easter, at least in the surrounding counties here. It got moved to the end of the third quarter. Except on the Easter Weekend we get a 'spring holiday' and Friday before Easter and the Monday after Easter.
Christmas Break use to extend for the full 12 days of christmas and almost always all the days of Chanukah. Then politically correct school board members came and made the break winter break. Now the dates in the past have no longer accommodated those not Christian. *Yes I am aware that Chanukah has been rather really early in the past few years but those still use to be* Winter break happens now at the end of the second quarter.
And now I to actually continue to what this thread is truly about.
Religion and major holiday school breaks.
As long as there are strongly religious people in charge of school boards our breaks are going to aid those religions, at least here in the Bible Belt.
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