Poor Easter Bunny! Seattle public school is renaming Easter eggs "Spring Spheres." The story broke on Dori Monson Show on the radio:
The School District said that it was done to comply with their "Religion and Religious Accommodation" policy, where "no religious belief or non-belief should be promoted by the School District or its employees, and none should be disparaged." (Update 4/19/11 - The School District didn't say it was done to comply with their policy. That was my mistake - they did put a statement pointing to their Religion and Religious Accommodation policy - Thanks Joe Mondo!).
A+ for political correctness, but what grade do you think the school should get for common sense? Link
Jessica, 16, told KIRO Radio's Dori Monson Show that a week before spring break, the students commit to a week-long community service project. She decided to volunteer in a third grade class at a public school, which she would like to remain nameless.
"At the end of the week I had an idea to fill little plastic eggs with treats and jelly beans and other candy, but I was kind of unsure how the teacher would feel about that," Jessica said.
She was concerned how the teacher might react to the eggs after of a meeting earlier in the week where she learned about "their abstract behavior rules."
"I went to the teacher to get her approval and she wanted to ask the administration to see if it was okay," Jessica explained. "She said that I could do it as long as I called this treat 'spring spheres.' I couldn't call them Easter eggs."
The School District said that it was done to comply with their "Religion and Religious Accommodation" policy, where "no religious belief or non-belief should be promoted by the School District or its employees, and none should be disparaged." (Update 4/19/11 - The School District didn't say it was done to comply with their policy. That was my mistake - they did put a statement pointing to their Religion and Religious Accommodation policy - Thanks Joe Mondo!).
A+ for political correctness, but what grade do you think the school should get for common sense? Link
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The School District in fact did NOT say "it was done to comply with their 'Religion and Religious Accommodation' policy".
The School District said - in the very story Neatorama linked to - that it couldn't verify the story.
In fact no one has been able to verify the story.
PC people are like vegans, they need to get the %&*$ over themselves.
The School District didn't confirm that the incident happen, and didn't deny it either. In fact, its spokeperson Teresa Wippel said:
“The truth is that we don’t know that it actually happened,” she said.
“It wasn’t like it violated any policy, (but) we have so many other issues here this frankly isn’t at the top of the list.”
Wippel said she is not surprised by how many bloggers and media websites have picked up the story.
“Whenever you talk about religion it raises people’s concern. It’s a hot-button issue for many folks.”
So, fake story? You be the judge - but consider these:
Port of Seattle's Renaming of Christmas Tree as "Peace and Harmony Fir"
and
Seattle Parks holding an Easter-less "Spring Egg Hunt."
Alex back with another of his Conservativorama posts...
There is a week-day naming convention that is simply numerical. 1st (sunday), 2nd (Monday) up to saturday and then it's the Sabbath! Oh well, it could just be the 7th. This system is in use in Portugal I believe. It was actually made up to get rid of the pagan-based week-day names.