School Principal Bans Fall Holidays for Being Insensitive

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Anne Foley, the principal at Kennedy School in Somerville, Mass., sent an email to teachers warning them about celebrating Thanksgiving, the Boston Herald reported. “When we were young we might have been able to claim ignorance of the atrocities that Christopher Columbus committed against the indigenous peoples,” Kennedy School Principal Anne Foley wrote. “We can [...]

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[dvdelf]

ummmmm then shouldnt they be banning Columbus day?

 

[Jeff Westover]

Just another day in typical American public school education. What a shame how the near sightedness of an educator can reach out to so many people. What would you do if you had a kid in that school?

 

[dvdelf]

keep them home

This whole "sensitivity" thing kills me. "He was a horrible person" Look, alot of people were horrible. Some are now. Some of the best minds in history were not the best people in the world. Chances are if you go back in your family tree far enough we will find somebody horrible. Should I ban you from school? For god sakes some of the founding fathers of our country owned slaves. Should we ban Independance day?

 

[MerryCarey]

Halloween is about devil worship, Thanksgiving is about subjugation of American Natives, Christmas is unfair to non-Christians, yadda yadda yadda ... 'Tis the season to get in the news with your provocative views!

But it did me good to see the response of Somerville's mayor and Senator Brown. I'm happy to see that responsible people are pushing back against the anti-holiday, over-reacting PI appeasers.

 

[RadioJonD]

Has anyone ever heard of any of the offended insisting on going to work on the holiday they detest and protest? How many actually show up for work that day and complain that they can't work?

Of course we don't get Halloween off, not that I would protest. :mrgreen::

 

[Jeff Westover]

What gets me is that here we have an educator who hasn't a clue about history. It is quite easy to take a figure from 500 years ago and hold them against 21st century standards. It would also be wrong to teach such things out of context.

This same educator, by the way, would hold Martin Luther King up as a moral absolute.

We're so upside-down.

 

[GingerMel]

They all just need to lighten up and let the kids have SOME fun.

 

[dvdelf]

What gets me is that here we have an educator who hasn't a clue about history. It is quite easy to take a figure from 500 years ago and hold them against 21st century standards. It would also be wrong to teach such things out of context.

This same educator, by the way, would hold Martin Luther King up as a moral absolute.

We're so upside-down.

and really that was my point in a rambling kinda way