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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So tell if I am being unreasonable to be annoyed here--

DC is in elementary school that frequently touts the beauty and joy of "sharing your culture."  At one point, parents were invited in to "share an activity from your culture." As a result of that invitation, my kid brought home a little lantern they made in celebration of Diwali.

And yet, when it comes to mainstream secular holidays like Halloween or Valentines Day, we get emails like this:

[quote]Valentine's Reminder

As Valentine's Day approaches, let's be mindful of our school community's inclusive approach to celebrations. While the holiday is often celebrated with parties, distributing Valentines, and treats, it's important to recognize its religious roots, and that not all members of our community may observe it. Additionally, due to serious allergies, our school has a no-candy policy in classrooms.[/quote]

We got a similar message around Halloween. I can't help but get the feeling, based on these emails, that if I took up the teacher on one of these invitations to "share my culture" around Halloween or Valentines Day or any other secular take on a mainstream American holiday (e.g. Christmas), it would not be well-received. I am all for my kid learning and celebrating other cultures, but this feels like a double standard.

Frankly, I find it annoying that we not allowed to have any common celebration with these holidays. I remember Halloween and Valentines Day as some of my most fun in-school experiences and this feels like they are caving to an unreasonably intolerant minority. Obviously we can and still do invite classmates over to celebrate these holidays at home, but that is not quite the same.

Thoughts?[/quote]

Yes American culture is being erased. 
Please go vote for a different board this election cycle. 
We deserve better.[/quote]

What is American culture if not an amalgamation of multiple other cultures from around the world? American culture evolves as American society evolves. Get with the times. [/quote]

America's culture is politics and government. 
There increasingly isn't much commonality to hold its people together except the system the people live under. [/quote]

You forgot money.

But the reason that there is nothing left to hold us together is that we have valued everyone else's culture over our own, and because we have allowed academics and "revolutionaries" to tear down everything that used to bind us together.  We are a multi-cultural experiment, the likes of which has never occurred in history.  It is unlikely that the country survives the experiment.[/quote]

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