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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Celebrating something and learning about something are two totally different things.  The latter is appropriate at school, the former isn’t.  [/quote]

Making a little Diwali lantern is not celebrating Diwali? Other examples included kids getting and playing Dreidels for Hanukah.

If you really believe this, please suggest an activity that would be comparable to these activities, but "learning about" rather than "celebrating" Halloween or Valentines but would not directly contradict the email instructions I quoted.[/quote]

I actually would LOVE it if some Irish American or Catholic people did a little presentation about Halloween and its origins and the kids could make masks and hand out candy to each other and same for Valentines Day- someone could come and talk about it and the kids make cards for each other and learn about the whole concept of 'saint's days' in Catholics, same with Lent and Easter. It was so much simpler for me to tell my kids that halloween etc were Catholic holidays b/c we live around Catholic U and go to their event for Halloween. Having someone come in and specifically 'claim' a holiday and do an activity centered around it is both fun for the kids, and teaches  all of these minority kids about holidays that most people have been celebrating for a long time without making one set of holidays the 'norm' for everyone and some holidays the 'diverse' holidays.

Compare it to when you read a book and the author only mentions teh race of teh characters in teh book who are 'African American' or 'asian', never says anything about anyone else b/c in there minds 'white' is the default, in 2024, making anything the default is not accurate.  I love Halloween and my kids love easter egg hunts but we celebrate with other people, they are not OUR celebrations, we put no effort into them but when I was kid- my mom had to spend effort on the costumes for Halloween and effort on the cards and treats for valentines day when she honestly could not care less. So if these holidays are your holidays, like the Jewish mom  make all the effort for the Hanukah activity, you make all the effort for the Halloween activity.  [/quote]

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