Candy Canes and J for Jesus

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I thought is was supposed to be like a bishops crozier.

I was probably wrong.
 
It’s whatever we want it to symbolise. As with all art and visual aides.
The shepherds crook is the most practical representation of this cane.

And I really do like her interpretation of the cane, especially the red and white. It’s great she has put so much effort into this , in order to reject it. The first step on the road to her journey home.

Snopes is claiming the cane was an Indiana invention. Snopes needs to fact check it’s own facts. The candy cane has been around for a lot longer then the early 20th century.
 
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My father was from Nebraska and I visited out there many times, it’s totally Christian out there once you get out of the one or two big cities it has. It’s also the state that went all the way to the Supreme Court over its practice of opening sessions of the state legislature with a Christian prayer from a government-funded chaplain. I have no idea what this woman thought she was going to accomplish in Nebraska other than getting herself fired.
 
Wow, it looks like she tried to ban just about everything Christmassy from the school, and they’re calling her the “Grinch”. I have to wonder if she’s got some kind of mental disturbance, this is just nuts.
Items prohibited by Sinclair include Santa items, Christmas trees, the “Elf on the Shelf,” singing Christmas carols, playing Christmas music, candy canes and reindeer, homemade ornament gifts, Christmas movies and red and green items.
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I think it’s going to have the opposite of what she wants. People will talk and say, these things are banned, let’s get some!
 
I taught at a public school in a southern US state that still had Bibles in the classroom that children could read in their “free reading” time if they chose. All of the teachers had notepads that had Bible verses or saint quotes on them. We had the Nativity Story as our Christmas program and the last day of school before Christmas break was spent around the Christmas tree singing carols all day. The music teacher played instruments while the kids sang, teachers danced, and we even had an angel on top of the tree! Many parents and grandparents joined us and would talk about doing the same stuff at that school when they were little. It was a tradition that was at least 50 years old at that point. We had Jewish students in the school but their parents were fine with the celebration. To them or was part of the town they called home.

The town the school was in was very old and had small shops downtown. Starting Dec. 1, Christmas music was played out of the City Hall clock tower. It was like a little Christmas paradise. Everyone smiled and said Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! Happy Hanukkah! When people passed by. There was a large tree downtown that people would drop off wrapped gifts to put under the tree and on Dec. 22 every year, Santa came in a horse drawn sleigh with a few elves, loaded up the gifts, and carried them to the Christmas party for the poor children and those in foster care.

Then, a new principal came to the school. She got rid of the Bibles. The Christmas pageant was replaced with a “Snow Festival” (snow rarely happened there!). The Christmas tree was gone because it was a fire hazard and a fake tree would block the exit. The long time music teacher was fired when he sang Feliz Navidad with the kids (yes, the José Feliciano song. Not exactly religious). He had “been warned” nothing mentioning Christmas would be tolerated.

Thankfully the Army moved us soon afterwards. This was about 15 years ago. I still wonder why anyone would want to make an issue somewhere that there never was one before. It truly affected many aspects of the school community. I watched the students go from being very happy and close knit to a bickering, divided bunch. It wasn’t just Christmas that was lost.
 
Saw a comment on social media on the school’s page with somebody saying they would now address this principal as “Ennifer” because the J in her name might remind one of Jesus and she wouldn’t want that.

Some school districts have policies on this stuff, and apparently this one has a policy that things like Santa, christmas decorations, candy canes etc are considered secular and are allowed in the public school. This woman didn’t bother to follow the district policy but just imposed whatever ideas were in place wherever she came from.

I can see not wanting to have Bibles in the classroom (They’d be Protestant Bibles anyway in USA) or a Nativity play (usually the churches and church schools would be putting those on where I’ve lived, not the public school), but banning Santa or any mention of the word “Christmas” or Christmas candy or anything red and green is going way too far, IMHO.
 
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That was the only district I have worked in that did. My point wasn’t that it should go back to that everywhere, it was simply that people shouldn’t be forced by an outsider to change things that no one had an issue with. The principal came in from a different area of the country and decided to change generations of traditions. As a result, six private schools opened in the county, the catholic school that was dwindling ended up with a wait list and homeschooling became common. The parents realized the danger of allowing a group of government employees to decide what they thought was best for their children and took the control back. I hope one day more parents will follow suit.
 
This lady has got something going on around Christmas.

I totally get why a public school wouldn’t feature songs directly about Christ but the other stuff is over the top.

I live in a pretty liberal area and my kids are in elementary school and the school has all of the typical Christmas decorations.
 
If Catholic schools didn’t cost $500 per month maybe more parents would.
 
What’s really sad is if you read this story on the page of the actual school that clearly has parents of the kids, local residents etc posting there, they are all supporting the district and against what the teacher is doing…but the story got picked up by The Hill (legislative newspaper) in DC and everybody posting on that page thinks the teacher was correct and many of them are saying they were teachers and had to follow the same policy of nothing that could suggest a specific group’s holiday. Snowmen, snowflakes, penguins etc were okay, anything involving Christmas or even Hanukkah was not OK. Sad.

Then of course they go on to trash everybody who doesn’t agree with the teacher as Christian right-wingers.
 
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I saw that. It reads like the initial plot of a bad Hallmark movie lol. Just needs the reveal that her parents got divorced at Christmas while she was sitting on Santa’s lap at the mall as a kid. Then fast forward to the present, a little boy at the school breaks through to her compassion and introduces her to his surprisingly handsome widower father. Practically writes itself.
 
You forgot that somewhere she steps into a small country church and “I Could Only Imagine” plays.

And there needs to be an orphan and some shoes.

ETA or the widower IS the minister of the small country church.
 
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Happy cake day little lady.

This all proves the ubiquitous enjoyment of snow, polar bears and chocolate.
 
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