War on Christmas, the Rhode Island Battlefield
Future Christmas revisionism: “It’s Beginning to Look Like the Holidays.” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Holiday.” “All I Want for the Holidays Is My Two Front Teeth.” “Holidays in Killarney.”
The annual war on Christmas has resumed and a major battle is currently being fought in The Ocean State of Rhode Island.
Perhaps what’s most remarkable about the anti-Christmas forces–and they are formidable forces– is that, despite overwhelming national sentiment in favor of saying and celebrating “Christmas” instead of the generic “holiday,” liberal politicians and their cohorts in the media and among certain segments of the general populace never let up in trying to secularize this time of year.
What’s their problem?
On the one hand, the whole controversy which has been raging for years over a word is silly.
Does it really matter if a tree in the town square is called a holiday tree instead of a Christmas tree? Does it matter if Macy’s conducts holiday sales in lieu of Christmas sales? Does it matter if we wish one another, “Happy Holiday!” and not “Merry Christmas?”
On the other hand, if it didn’t matter, why do some people persist in trying to change a long-standing, popular tradition?
A recent Rasmussen Reports survey confirms what the majority of Americans already knew. By a whopping 70%, most of us prefer to celebrate Christmas rather than meaningless holidays. More specifically, seven out of ten opt for store signs wishing shoppers a Merry Christmas and not Happy Holidays.
It shouldn’t be such a big deal, but it is, moreso for the grinches than for the traditionalists. The grinch contingent seems obsessed with the need to unnecessarily change what doesn’t need changing.
One rhetorical question is, why? Another is, why are virtually all the grinches liberals? The answers are simple: Liberals despise tradition, especially any tradition that smacks of Christianity, and they are grinchy because their philosophy is inherently devious and intolerant.
Case in point: The Associated Press is reporting that Rhode Island’s liberal governor, Lincoln D. Chafee, in defiance of a symbolic resolution passed by his state’s House of Representatives, is insisting the statehouse 17′ blue spruce scheduled to be lit on December 6th be called a holiday, not a Christmas tree . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=7944.)
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
School Daze
Scenario: Your public school child is gloriously flunking every subject he has, including phys ed.
What to do?
. Do you call his school and ask for a parent-teacher conference with all his or her teachers? Nah, you can’t do that, work schedule and all, and besides it won’t do any good, what could they tell you that you didn’t already know?
. Do you sit down with Johnny or Janey–or Juan or Juanita, or Shaquille or Shaniqua–and read him or her the riot act and threaten to seize his or her cell phone, iPod, TV, pick one or more? Nah, Johnny or Shaniqua would rebel and pout and not talk to you for a week.
. Do you pull your child out of that school and place him in another school? Nah, are you kidding? Kids are locked into whatever school they’re told to attend, or not attend if they’re not in an attending mood.
. Do you find a private or parochial school and enroll the flunker there? Nah, that would cost an arm and a leg and maybe a kidney and you can’t afford it.
President Obama knows exactly what to do when Juan and Juanita and enough of their fellow students were flunking: Fire every teacher, principal, assistant principal, social worker, secretary, security guard, custodian, anyone who has caused the failure of your bright, hard working, and cooperative child.
They did just that up at Central Falls High School in Rhode Island: http://bit.ly/bm3wNf
Literally enforcing provisions of George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind, NCLB, program for failing schools, the powers that be fired the entire staff, administration, and ancillary personnel of CFHS because that action would presumably alleviate the problem of grossly-underperforming students.
The unstated premises of those firings are that the school board knows what it’s doing, that a change of atmosphere, teachers, and administration will inspire the student population to excel or at least pass their courses.
It also presupposes that pigs can dance and turtles can sing. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1537)
What to do?
. Do you call his school and ask for a parent-teacher conference with all his or her teachers? Nah, you can’t do that, work schedule and all, and besides it won’t do any good, what could they tell you that you didn’t already know?
. Do you sit down with Johnny or Janey–or Juan or Juanita, or Shaquille or Shaniqua–and read him or her the riot act and threaten to seize his or her cell phone, iPod, TV, pick one or more? Nah, Johnny or Shaniqua would rebel and pout and not talk to you for a week.
. Do you pull your child out of that school and place him in another school? Nah, are you kidding? Kids are locked into whatever school they’re told to attend, or not attend if they’re not in an attending mood.
. Do you find a private or parochial school and enroll the flunker there? Nah, that would cost an arm and a leg and maybe a kidney and you can’t afford it.
President Obama knows exactly what to do when Juan and Juanita and enough of their fellow students were flunking: Fire every teacher, principal, assistant principal, social worker, secretary, security guard, custodian, anyone who has caused the failure of your bright, hard working, and cooperative child.
They did just that up at Central Falls High School in Rhode Island: http://bit.ly/bm3wNf
Literally enforcing provisions of George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind, NCLB, program for failing schools, the powers that be fired the entire staff, administration, and ancillary personnel of CFHS because that action would presumably alleviate the problem of grossly-underperforming students.
The unstated premises of those firings are that the school board knows what it’s doing, that a change of atmosphere, teachers, and administration will inspire the student population to excel or at least pass their courses.
It also presupposes that pigs can dance and turtles can sing. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1537)
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