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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

Don't forget schools are banned from using Christmas as well !!!

 

Maybe we could do a survey. Hands up everyone here with school-aged children whose schools have banned the  naming or celebrating of Christmas. (personal experience only please, not "What I read on the internet" or "What someone I met in the supermarket told me hapened at the school her sister's friends children attend."

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My grandchildren's school held a Christmas concert on Tuesday.....I attended. Was lovely. They have made decorations .... party was yesterday....and sing Christmas songs, some I have never heard. 1 is about about Aussie Christamas, rusty Holden ute?

Funnily enough my kids go to a Christian school and they've never done a Christmas concert there. They did have them at public school though. We did have a committee member at kinder try and put a stop to the Christmas concert, but she was outvoted.

punch

And what was the reason for her wanting to ban the Christmas concert ?

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@punch*drunk wrote:

Funnily enough my kids go to a Christian school and they've never done a Christmas concert there. They did have them at public school though. We did have a committee member at kinder try and put a stop to the Christmas concert, but she was outvoted.

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Goody.

 

She thought it was culturally insensitive. It was really strange because we live in a really small community of predominantly people with a European background and mostly Catholic & Christians (the few that do attend church). There had certainly been no complaints re the concert (apart from her) so I don't really know where the idea came from. And she was Asutralian with more than likely a British background and didnt really follow any religion.

 

The consensus of the committee was that the Christmas concert could stay and if there were other cultures/religions that had their own celebrations that the kinder would incorporate those so the children could learn about those too, which would have happened anyway even before we made any kind of ruling on it.

 

I was once asked at childcare whether it was ok for my daughter to make an angel which kind of threw me a bit, I'd never really associated angels as being just a Christian or Christmas thing.

punch

everybody is so scared of offending someone else it is not funny.


"and if there were other cultures/religions that had their own celebrations that the kinder would incorporate those so the children could learn about those too"

My kind of thinking.

Funny thing is, they wouldnt dare ban any other cultures celebration !!!

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@punch*drunk wrote:

She thought it was culturally insensitive.

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She, I think has the sensitvity of a baked ceramic tile.

 

Or

 

A No Standing Sign.

 

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@aps1080 wrote:

Maybe it is council run schools only ?

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I did not know that councils run schools?  I thought it was state government that run state schools, and who ever runs independent schools.  Nobody actually bans Xmas, some schools just do not bother about it.  Xmas used to be religious holidays, now it is just excuse for a spending spree.

Thats what I thought was odd, she wanted other cultures/ incorporated even though they werent represented at the kinder, but wanted to ban the traditional Christmas concert. So its not like she was anti religion in general.

 

i believe the traditional Christmas concert has since been changed, not sure what they do now or the reason for changing it.

I would love to hear what others said to here in the meeting.

And to see her reaction.