School principal bans Santa, Thanksgiving and Pledge of Allegiance

[flowers]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/13/school-principal-bans-santa-thanksgiving-and-pledge-allegiance/?intcmp=trending

Santa Claus is banned. The Pledge of Allegiance is no longer recited. “Harvest festival” has replaced Thanksgiving, and “winter celebrations” substitute for Christmas parties.

New principal Eujin Jaela Kim has given PS 169 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, a politically correct scrub-down, to the dismay of teachers and parents.

“We definitely can’t say Christmas, nothing with Christmas on it, nothing with Santa,” PTA President Mimi Ferrer said administrators told her. “No angels. We can’t even have a star because it can represent a religious system, like the Star of David.”

Kim, 33, did not return a call or e-mail seeking comment.

A memo last month from assistant principal Jose Chaparro suggested a “harvest festival instead of Thanksgiving or a winter celebration instead of a Christmas party.” He urged staff to “be sensitive of the diversity of our families. Not all children celebrate the same holidays.”

[Fishrrman]

It's New York City, folks.
Fuhgeddaboutit...

Aside:
Some years ago, driving west on interstate 84 across the Delaware River at Port Jervis, the first sign you'd pass on the Pennsylvania line was "Welcome to Pennsylvania -- America Starts Here".

So true.

They've since taken it down.

Where -does- "old America" start, these days....?
Where can it still be found?

[EdinVA]

So, just who runs the schools?
Why does the principle get to dictate this stuff or is this coming from the local school boards?
I guess if we need to start taking things back, the schools are a good place to start.
The schools should work for the parents....

If we cannot get it straightened out, then shut down public schools altogether and lets just have private schools.

[xfreeper]

Not all children celebrate the same holidays.....

OK, fair enough. However, that doesn't mean no children should celebrate any holiday.

[DCPatriot]

Headline swimming in my head....

"Santa-Banning Principal Found Beaten Into a  Bloody Coma - - -To Miss School Christmas Pageant"