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Well, ya gotta keep in mind what the demographics are in the particular school. You mentioned yours is a Christian school. There's absolutely NO reason to be "politically correct" in a Christian school. Christian schools are going to be overwelmingly Christian, and are private schools. A Christian school can celebrate Christmas as many times a year as it wants to. Now in PUBLIC school, it depends on who the public is! If your public school is overwhelming populated with Christians, and especially if it's in a rural environment where most familys have been there about forever and are comfortable with each other, you're going to have few if any problems with Christmas celebrations. I teach in a pretty large suburban district. We have pretty close to 11,000 students K-12. The middle school I'm in has over 1000 students. I don't know the religious breakdown, but I'd guess the school is probably 60-70% Christian. We don't have Christmas decorations. We don't mak a big deal out of it, either! There is a tree in the lobby, and it's decorated with paper decorations with kids' names on them. They bought the decorations at $1 apiece at lunch with the proceeds going to a children's hospital. There are decorations on that tree that were bought by Christians, Jews, Hindus, Moslems, atheists, and likely some that don't fit any of those categories. There's no strife over this "secular" Christmas approach, as the general opinion of almost everyone is: The season is too important to fight over! Along with this is the attitude that the public school, funded by ALL the public, should not be in the business of deciding who's holiday should hold sway. Now regrarding the "majority rule" concept. Yeah, the majority can almost always crush the minorty. But the gains are short-lived, as most of those minorities (be they religious, ethnic, racial, or whatever) have a way of bouncing back. The Constitution, in particular the Bill of Rights, was designed in such a way as to protect the minority from always being crushed. This is longer than I intended it to be, and is NOT meant as a lecture. What we're doing works for us.
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