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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why was it cancelled? 
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They didn't mention why they cancelled in the email. Was it because of a-hole parents complaining?

(funny how those a-hole parents didn't complain about Chanukah or Christmas events) 
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What was the Christmas event?[/quote]

Food drive and gift wrapping. 
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That’s not a Christmas event that’s charity. [/quote]

It’s a different type of event but they still used school space and communication tools [b]to host people gathering for events related to Christmas[/b].

Religious-related events happen at school. You either have to allow them all or none.

Did the people complaining the Iftar also complain about the Chanukah event? 
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Events "related to Christmas" are not Christmas events. People of no religious belief whatsoever "celebrate" Christmas. But gift-giving is not Christmas. And collecting food and wrapping gifts is not a religious observance. I'm Christian and I object to your classification of these things as anything remotely a religious event or observance.[/quote]

They are events run by Christians that are based their religious beliefs. Gift giving and helping others is certainly how many/most Christians observe Christmas. Maybe to you that isn’t “holy” enough to count but it’s still a religious-related event.

Just like the Chanukah event and the Iftar event.

All or none. 
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I’m fine with food and gift drives they are not explicitly religious and iftar or Hanukkah event are. These drives are sometimes the only source of gifts or food that kids get and at my school at least it’s often non-Christians receiving them so I don’t think they have a problem with it either[/quote]

Food drive:sharing food:during the Christmas season….iftar:sharing food:during the Ramadan season…same thing for toys, why during the Christmas season, because they are Christmas gifts, otherwise why not any other time of the year? I’m not against food drives or toys but like the PP said, do it for all or do it for none. You are otherwise favoring one religion over the other.[/quote]
It varies by school. We do food/clothing drives multiple times per year at my school and Christmas is never mentioned. If instead of calling, get an avatar, they wanted to call it a community feast and it happened to be around Eid that’s fine.
 I didn’t complain about the Hanukkah event because I didn’t know about it. I do think that’s a problem I do not think of food or toy drive is explicitly Christmas.[/quote]  :roll: at my autocorrect “instead of calling it Iftar”[/quote]

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