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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid came home with gelt and a dreidel at Hanukkah. And wanted to know why we don’t have a Menorah. All I did was tell him it’s because we aren’t Jewish. He’s never come home with any information about Jesus or an advent calendar or anything like that and our school programs have always appeared to go out of the way to never include any songs at the winter concerts that are at all related to Christmas but they definitely sang a Kwanza song and a dreidel song this year. So I’m not going to get upset about an egg hunt either, it sounds fun. [/quote]

yup. My Christian kid came home with a dreidel in Kindergarten. I didn't make a big deal. [/quote]

Teacher or classmate provided?  I'm assuming the latter.  As a Jew I can tell you all about being encouraged to performatively 'share' a tradition like this when it's as much a license to normalize other Christian holiday symbolism without overtly excluding others.  Nothing wrong with it, but why the fascination with Hanukah?   Is it the most relatable to other commercialized celebrations?  From experience, there is very little effort to share non- Judeo-Christian traditions.

I'd love to hear a teacher engage with my kid why the Jewish New Year in celebrated in September and why it's significant instead of [b]marking an unexcused absence even after receiving advanced notice[/b].  I'd love for my kid to learn more about El Eid or Diwali if others wished to share.[/quote]

This happened to us too! Not to mention our school had Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur marked on the wrong days of the calendar... [/quote]

Don't even get me started on trying to explain the concept of "Erev" vs the observance on the following day[/quote]

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