BAH HUMBUG!
Well, not quite since it is not quite the Christmas holiday season just yet.
But the holiday season haters are getting a jump start this year. A real early start.
And where would you find such lunacy?
California? Hmm, not this time.
New York state? Close in geography.
Maybe, hmm, maybe. . .Massachusetts?
B I N G O!
Anne Foley is a principal at Kennedy School in Sommerville. And she has a real hate for the eeeeevvvvviiilllll Christopher Columbus.
But it does not end there.
Why she has delivered a sweeping ultimatum to her minion teachers.
That they are not to celebrate the eeeeevvvvviiilllll Columbus Day holiday. And while they are at it, not Halloween or Thanksgiving.
Whiskey! Tango! Foxtrot!
What is wrong with these Educrats?
Well here is some of the wisdom of Miss Foley:
"When we were young we might have been able to claim ignorance of the atrocities that Christopher Columbus committed against the indigenous peoples," Kennedy School Principal Anne Foley wrote. "We can no longer do so. For many of us and our students celebrating this particular person is an insult and a slight to the people he annihilated. On the same lines, we need to be careful around the Thanksgiving Day time as well."
In one fell swoop, Miss Foley smacks down three holidays and I am sure she will get really orgasmic around the Christmas holiday season.
OK, I get it. Christopher Columbus was a dastardly man that wanted to bring the plagues of Europe to the peaceful, indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere. Never mind that many of these so-called peaceful people were at war with each other, and performing ritualistic human sacrifice. No, no, no. It was Chris Columbus that brought evil to these people.
Columbus Day is a celebration of the Italian community of the United States. By and large. It is a celebration of the event of discovery. Christoper Columbus is not singlehandedly responsible for what happened after he discovered the Americas.
And Halloween.
Well, that is kind of a gray area.
In reality, it is a pagan event usurped by the early Christian church. Now it has been way secularized and yeah, seems like the pagans took it back.
However, I think that there is nothing wrong with the kiddies, small and big, dressing up. Only the kids, with parents or guardians, should be trick-or-treating. And for the young adult dudes and dudettes, you know who you are, stop pretending you are just hanging around your young charges. Don't trick-or-treat with the kids.
And lets also stop with the "Fall festivals" and other language that seeks to stop the H-word from being used. It's Halloween, OK?
But what gets me is Thanksgiving.
Look, you may not like the fact that the origin is traced back to 1621 and the celebration of a good harvest. You may not like the fact that while the Pilgrims were settling the New World to escape persecution, they themselves did not persecute the natives.
And who is to say that none of this would have happened eventually?
But to me, Thanksgiving is a special day to thank my God and Maker and for what He has done for us. It is a combo of secular and religious. And it is uniquely American.
But to people like Miss Foley, she sees her mission not as the administrator of a school but as the chief brain washer.
Yeah, chief brain washer.
For the kids are the youngest in schools. It is at this point that people like her can indoctrinate rather than educate.
Sorry, but kids this young are actually entitled to a childhood. They do not need to be drawn into the bad of the world. Hell, many of these kids may live in really bad conditions unknown to us. So what if they want to dress up on Halloween? Or celebrate Thanksgiving? Or even celebrate Columbus Day?
N O T H I N G!
The problem with education is twofold.
It is what they are learning and who is teaching them.
Miss Foley should be made to resign for such an attitude of contempt for the land that she is a citizen of. At the very least, she should be demoted.
And this is why we need to be ever vigilant about our local school boards and the decisions they make.
As for Kennedy chool, the parents need to rise up and tell off this Foley woman. And if the school board will not do anything, they need to keep Miss Foley on a short leash.
My hope is that the kiddies at this school are allowed to dress up for Halloween and celebrate Thanksgiving.
They are things to be celebrated, not swept aside to appease fringe people.
In other words, lets not start the Holiday Hatred so soon, please?
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