School have banned the word "christmas"!!!

margaretclare

Welshwoofs wrote: »

I wish someone would ban bloody Christmas.....people are already saying its Christmas and we're only just into December for goodness sake! Soon we'll no doubt be delighted with the festive sights of blowsy secretaries and lecherous beer-bellied men falling out of chain restaurants drunk on cheap wine and frozen turkey. Then there's the annual calling of the 'spoilt brat who wants to blackmail his parents into the latest games console by screaming his head off in the middle of Tesco Extra'. There's the tacky light displays and the oh-so-bloody hilarious comedy Christmas hats that total knobheads seem to delight in wearing around the place. Oh and let's not forget the obscene mountains of really c-rappy foods positively bursting from every supermarket shelf and the famine mentality of people ramming their trollys 10 miles high because O.M.G ?..the shops close for a whole bloody day. We may starve!!!!!

Secret bloody santas.....no I don't want to buy some crudhead in the office who I probably wouldn't recognise if I tripped over them, some piece of tat and then have to pretend that I'd actually put some thought into it rather than, say, rewrapped whatever piece of crud someone else I've never heard of gave me in last year's secret Santa.

Restaurants stop serving decent food and roll out their hideous Christmas menus...complete with crackers which, frankly, I'd rather see rammed up the backside of the waiting staff than ever open....especially if it involves the indignity of wearing a stupid bloody hat (this year I have spent £50 on 6 crackers PURELY because they have no hat and come with a nice Venetian masquerade mask....to mask the tears of shame....instead)

Bah....be glad when it's sodding January.

I agree with much of this - at least, I agree with the frustration and resentment behind it, although I wouldn't use such language. I'm bored with the whole of December - wish I could hibernate and wake up refreshed on New Year's Day, by which time it will all have gone away and people will be nursing their thick heads and looking in horror at their credit card bills.

Having said that, I do send Christmas cards, mostly to people whom I never see and never hear from any other time. I choose my cards carefully - this year they're from the RSPB and have a very nostalgic scene of snow-filled village street, cottage windows lit up and church tower in background. I will NOT have any depicting red-clad white-bearded men with their totem animals, or snowmen. Sending Christmas cards is my only concession, that and going to church - I love a carol service, went to one last year in the chapel of Repton School and that was marvellous, also the Christmas Eve carol service in Coventry Cathedral the year before, lovely.

photome

meritaten wrote: »

I cannot help wondering why Christmas cards are not banned from the school entirely! tbh - they are merely a Victorian invention and hardly in the Tradition of christmas. after all the three kings and the shepherds actually turned up and didnt send a nice Hallmark card with a gift did they?

They should be banned everywhere it is just a commercial exercise for card manufacturers and retailers as are mothers day, grandmas day, dogs birthday, etc etc

ska_lover

elaine373 wrote: »

Get your facts right before you spout your racist views out.As expalined by another poster,its to do with the correct procedure according to the catholic faith and nothing to do with any other religion or belief!

For what reason would you accuse me of racism? All I did was say if they are going to ban christmas, they should ban diwali as well. Fair is fair. (If they are going to ban one, they should ban them all..)

I think you have played your racism card too quickly there.

Wickedkitten

ska_lover wrote: »

For what reason would you accuse me of racism? All I did was say if they are going to ban christmas, they should ban diwali as well. Fair is fair. (If they are going to ban one, they should ban them all..)

I think you have played your racism card too quickly there.

This country is not aimed at being a homestead for the original inhabitants these days. We are made to feel unwelcome.

Really? Still think so?

liana_y2kuk

Oh please dont turn this in to one of those threads. The ones that have nothing to do with the original post and just become a slanging match.....

Person_one

liana_y2kuk wrote: »

Oh please dont turn this in to one of those threads. The ones that have nothing to do with the original post and just become a slanging match.....

That would be most threads on here I'm afraid!

Most of us are just looking forward to some clarification when school opens again tomorrow.

Welshwoofs

margaretclare wrote: »

Having said that, I do send Christmas cards, mostly to people whom I never see and never hear from any other time. I choose my cards carefully - this year they're from the RSPB and have a very nostalgic scene of snow-filled village street, cottage windows lit up and church tower in background. I will NOT have any depicting red-clad white-bearded men with their totem animals, or snowmen. Sending Christmas cards is my only concession, that and going to church - I love a carol service, went to one last year in the chapel of Repton School and that was marvellous, also the Christmas Eve carol service in Coventry Cathedral the year before, lovely.

Ahh well I'm an atheist so I'm afraid to say that I have a complete downer on the whole religious aspect of christmas too. I do call it christmas; only because it's overly pedantic to call it something that 99% of people don't, but it has zero religious meaning to me and let's call a spade a spade - it is a day highjacked from the pagans.

tortoiseshellcat

Hi I think someone's already said this but... I think it is most likely the head has just banned the word Christmas until a bit nearer the time as primary school children can get over-excited and it might keep a bit of calm in the school until the last week. With regard to the Christmas cards, some children might feel left out if they don't get many cards so it could just be an effort to help everyone feel included and give money to charity. I work in a school and the staff don't generally give cards to each other, we all sign one big card and put the money we would have spent on cards in a pot for a chosen charity. I might be wrong but just an idea

halibut2209

I get so fed up of the "It's called CHRISTmas, so therefore it's a Christian festival" nonsense.

Next month is January, doesn't mean I'm gonna start worshipping Roman gods. Christmas has different meanings to different people. It's just a word.

Cat501

Welshwoofs wrote: »

I wish someone would ban bloody Christmas.....people are already saying its Christmas and we're only just into December for goodness sake! Soon we'll no doubt be delighted with the festive sights of blowsy secretaries and lecherous beer-bellied men falling out of chain restaurants drunk on cheap wine and frozen turkey. Then there's the annual calling of the 'spoilt brat who wants to blackmail his parents into the latest games console by screaming his head off in the middle of Tesco Extra'. There's the tacky light displays and the oh-so-bloody hilarious comedy Christmas hats that total knobheads seem to delight in wearing around the place. Oh and let's not forget the obscene mountains of really c-rappy foods positively bursting from every supermarket shelf and the famine mentality of people ramming their trollys 10 miles high because O.M.G ?..the shops close for a whole bloody day. We may starve!!!!!

Secret bloody santas.....no I don't want to buy some crudhead in the office who I probably wouldn't recognise if I tripped over them, some piece of tat and then have to pretend that I'd actually put some thought into it rather than, say, rewrapped whatever piece of crud someone else I've never heard of gave me in last year's secret Santa.

Restaurants stop serving decent food and roll out their hideous Christmas menus...complete with crackers which, frankly, I'd rather see rammed up the backside of the waiting staff than ever open....especially if it involves the indignity of wearing a stupid bloody hat (this year I have spent £50 on 6 crackers PURELY because they have no hat and come with a nice Venetian masquerade mask....to mask the tears of shame....instead)

Bah....be glad when it's sodding January.

lol, well I must be a knobhead because I like crackers AND wearing the hats out of them, it's just a bit of fun (for me anyway!):) I also like cheap wine:D

I DO agree about the famine mentality though, THAT is bonkers