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<p>Im not Christian but I think that is a bit much-
Mark winter break and the solstice but if you aren’t going to list all relevant holidays, then list none of them.</p>
<p>Gee, you don’t suppose that since Christmas is an official national holiday, touted on every advertisement from here to Singapore from October on, they might have figured everyone had some vague idea it might be coming along some time soon?</p>
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With whiney would-be victims like this as “friends” I actually am starting to feel kind of sorry for Jesus…
Can’t let a little thing like that keep anyone from moaning about how the poor victimized “true” Christians are being dissed, can we?
Nope, can’t be that. Must be a sinister conspiracy. [/sarcasm]</p>
<p>Yeah, it didn’t sound to me like a deliberate omission for “PC” reasons. It sounded like the person who drew up the calendar focused on including little-known dates rather than ALL dates. In every school district in the country, Christmas is on the calendar as a vacation. The important dates one needs to be reminded of for scheduling schoolwide events are those dates fewer people observe or keep track of, so the person doing the calendar got those in there and forgot the obvious holiday date. Not that the mistake would have resulted in a PTA meeting being scheduled that day by accident. </p>
<p>Tempest in a teapot stirred up by divisive rabble rousers.</p>
<p>I don’t think the “obvious day” argument plays. They included New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, and Labor Day which are as well known as Christmas. I might buy the “we were careless” argument.</p>
<p>It seems pretty obvious that this was a mistake.</p>
<p>Personally unless the school is going to have something planned around the mention of the other holidays- why not leave it off?
I pay more attention to what days football games are ( so I can avoid that area of town) than I do human rights day.
What does that mean? Are they really going to use it to get people involved?
I remember the first Earth Day and it was a huge deal with the whole community being involved, but unless they are really going to do more than list something, it is just annoying.
I also couldn’t find the article on the website- but I did notice that off all todays activities that were listed many of them had to do with Santa.</p>
<p>I am so sick of Santa- Christmas no, because I know people who celebrate Christmas as part of religous observations- and winter has its charms, but poor Santa is now just a symbol of families going into hock so that their children feel loved.</p>