RE: Is tolerance intolerant?
December 10, 2018 at 7:11 pm
(This post was last modified: December 10, 2018 at 7:13 pm by bennyboy.)
I'm all for having a holiday celebration, so long as the religious ideas of all the students are represented. I mean-- 5 different kinds of cookies? A Santa with black thugs who beat the shit out of bad children? Come on! Who's not gonna be down with that?
Seriously, though, if I were a school principle, and anyone started whining, I'd just drop the whole thing. You don't need some family suing the school district because someone's kid was pressured to sing Christmas songs.
As for instrumental performances-- were they mandatory? If so, then students should have the right to opt out of playing-- or hearing-- them. If some student wants to express herself in a talent show by singing a Christian song-- rock on! But if it comes from any part of the school staff or teachers-- nonono, can't do that anymore.
It's quite the problem, culturally. We might ban all masses, including famous ones by Mozart, huge chunks of the work of Bach and Handel, and so on. The way things are going, we might even ban ALL their music just because they were Christian. That would be going too far.
Seriously, though, if I were a school principle, and anyone started whining, I'd just drop the whole thing. You don't need some family suing the school district because someone's kid was pressured to sing Christmas songs.
As for instrumental performances-- were they mandatory? If so, then students should have the right to opt out of playing-- or hearing-- them. If some student wants to express herself in a talent show by singing a Christian song-- rock on! But if it comes from any part of the school staff or teachers-- nonono, can't do that anymore.
It's quite the problem, culturally. We might ban all masses, including famous ones by Mozart, huge chunks of the work of Bach and Handel, and so on. The way things are going, we might even ban ALL their music just because they were Christian. That would be going too far.
