Merry Staying Home from School in the Winter For No Apparent Reason, Everyone!
This morning, one of my friends, Teri Christoph tweeted one of the most amazing things I’ve read in quite a while. Her kids are students in the Fairfax County (VA) public school system where they are getting into the Christmas Holiday Winter Break spirit by building the old, familiar traditional storybook structures with which we’re all familiar. I could have just quoted her tweet, but you really need to see it in all its screenshotted glory.
Ouch. My head hurts. What sort of fresh hell has come to Fairfax County that a school feels the need to cleanse our speech of words for dessert?
I’m willing to accept that I missed something in church recently, but I really don’t remember getting the memo that gingerbread houses are now religious symbols? Maybe it’s because I trend Baptist and we don’t go in for the iconography. Perhaps The Anchoress can let me know if the Pope has issued a new treat-related Encyclical. Else I need to check my Bible, just in case someone slipped the Book of Hansel und Gretel into the back of the Old Testament among all those minor books hardly anyone reads?
I’m hoping there’s an answer forthcoming, because I’d love to hear the rationale for renaming gingerbread houses because they’re too religious.
UPDATE: Don’t give the Fairfax County Public School system any ideas, Ron!
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Category: Edyookashun
Or is it more of a typical, "it's classic American tradition, so it must be banned" type of thing. So much of our traditions are getting shellacked.
According to Teri, this didn't just happen this year. Oy.
Jimmie, you are so inthenthitiff!
Not everyone has a house, so in order to be inclusive, we call them shelters now.
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