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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m reading the Valentines Reminder differently.  It says no candy because of allergies (which seems like a necessary health precaution and culturally neutral) and to remember that not everyone celebrates Valentines.

It doesn’t say that your child can’t celebrate, or even that the class won’t celebrate together, just that some people prefer not to celebrate.  I’d see it as a heads-up to warn the kids not to get offended or think it weird if someone doesn’t give them a valentine or doesn’t want to accept one.

I’d suggest e-mailing the teacher for clarification. [/quote]

OP here, and I agree that maybe there is a more charitable interpretation than how I initially read it and I hope you are right. However, for context, they made it very clear elsewhere there will be no class party and the class will not celebrate together, so I do know that that is part of the intended message.

Also, to be clear, I of course completely understand the candy issue and have no problem with skipping that due to allergies. It's the larger messaging that seems to signal (and I could be over-interpreting, but this is one of many such emails) that "certain specific holidays are arbitrarily not welcome here" that bothers me. [/quote]

Do you seriously think this is a double standard?  It seems to me like in both cases, the school is sending the exact same, very appropriate message: "Let's respect the backgrounds of all our students by recognizing that not everyone celebrates the same holidays."[/quote]

Np but I think there obviously should be a double standard in favor of the holidays *most*  kids celebrate. And we can celebrate less popular secular versions of other holidays too. MCPS being a joyless virtue-signal machine is a choice, and not a good one.[/quote]

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