Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Right to Representation":
8:53
Seems that you read an online article about ONE school in Paris, Ontario. You have now made a very broad statement that is false and adds fuel to the fear-mongering that we are loosing our past.
Way to distort.Posted by Anonymous to Our Town and Its Business at 31 October 2014 12:02
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When I read the comment about re-naming Halloween, my first thought was...... was it a teacher, a Principal or School Board policy.
I published it expecting enlightenment and a reaction.
The social media may be the only place for a reaction to be expressed anonymously without being accused of racism or religious bias.
The response published above proves the point.
"You have made a very broad statement that is false and adds fuel to the fear -mongering that we are loosing our past"
The statement is not false .
It is revealed by the commenter to be an on-line article about " ONE school in Paris,Ontario "
Added is an accusation of " fearmongering that we are losing our past" and "distortion"
How did those words enter the discussion.
Is there a genuine concern we are losing our culture ?
Is the reference to "fearmongering" related ?
Is there a government policy,masquerading as "multi-culturism " intended to submerge our own culture so that immigrants of a different culture feel more at home in our culture?
Have Christmas trees and crèches been removed from public buildings? Yes ,they have.
Has Merry Christmas been changed to Holiday Greetings because immigrants of different religion might feel left out?
Who asks for such decisions?
Do immigrants make it a condition of agreement to immigrate to a country with a different culture?
I doubt that.
Well then, government institutions must be the responsible party.
A school in Paris ,Ontario is certainly a government institution.
The decision was sufficiently weird to generate an on-line article being posted .
The article attracted sufficient attention to be repeated in a comment to this blog.
How does that get translated into "fearmongering"
Why the outrage?
I think we have here a person in a position of authority making this decision who clearly does not have sufficient judgement to be in a position of authority.
Furthermore I believe we have more than our share of people in positions of authority making dumb decisions. Then to exacerbate the situation, we have other people duplicating dumb decisions because somebody else did it first.
To add insult to injury, commenters like the one above ever ready to take up the cudgels in defence of rank stupidity.
At the very least, the person who making the decision to change the name of Hallowe'en would have to be a School Principal.
If that doesn't worry you, I think it should.
Halloween,by the way, was originally a pagan festival ,adapted by Christians, to encourage pagans to feel comfortable as Christians.
Friday 31 October 2014
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Last year there was a directive to refer to Hallowe'en as Spooky Day so as not to frighten the kids. Some schools did it, others did not. One in Georgina did. Black cats were allowed but the graveyard material was restricted to the upper grades.
You have to remember that there are parents who refuse to let their kids carve pumpkins for " religious " reasons.
We give these school boards way to much money. They have way to much time on their hands to think up this kind of sh*t.
It is there choice not to carve pumpkins! But do the rest of us have to conform to them? No! Halloween is all about ghost and witches. Get over it parents! Life is full of all kinds of things we can not control. The sooner kids knows this the happier and more accepting they will be!
18:47
The weird thing is that other kids of the same persuasion are not told to boycott simple pleasures.
"We give these school boards way to (sic) much money. They have way to (sic) much time..."
Evidently, not *too* much.
Hockey gloves are a costume ?
At the schools, decisions are made by the Principals. It is not the place, nor is it wise, for teachers to try and circumvent that control. They are for the most part more worried about kids coming to class with bruises, without lunch or without knowing which parent has custody that day. Never mind the dreadful marks being obtained on the testing for grades 3 and 6.
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