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Anonymous wrote:So Easter is a little over a week away. Tons of events and celebrations of it in the city that many, many families plan on attending especially the Easter egg hunts for the kiddies.

And OP is annoyed and thinks she is so self righteous to denounce an event that she attended, as a guest, because they have an Easter craft table or whatever for the kiddies.

Think I summed up this thread correctly.

Oh forgot and she and some people on here think that just because there were not other tables of other religious holidays that the school is not inclusive, when these are not even remotely coming up AND she has no idea what other holidays the schools celebrates…..

That’s it in a nutshell folks……..

Heavy on the snark and low on the smarts for you I see. Good thing there’s nothing remotely important on for observant Muslims right now. Best to get a jump on Easter in two weeks instead clearly…

If you’re expecting the average teachers, admins and parents at DC schools to proactively set up multicultural religious celebrations, your delusional. Their goal is to create a little levity in the struggle that is educating the average DC child, and that means, yes, Easter celebrations and teaching the 5 year olds Christmas carol. Go ahead and be the “nice [UMC] parent” lecturing the long-time Kindergarten teacher about why she can’t do the bunny art project this year.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So Easter is a little over a week away. Tons of events and celebrations of it in the city that many, many families plan on attending especially the Easter egg hunts for the kiddies.

And OP is annoyed and thinks she is so self righteous to denounce an event that she attended, as a guest, because they have an Easter craft table or whatever for the kiddies.

Think I summed up this thread correctly.

Oh forgot and she and some people on here think that just because there were not other tables of other religious holidays that the school is not inclusive, when these are not even remotely coming up AND she has no idea what other holidays the schools celebrates…..

That’s it in a nutshell folks……..

Heavy on the snark and low on the smarts for you I see. Good thing there’s nothing remotely important on for observant Muslims right now. Best to get a jump on Easter in two weeks instead clearly…

Anonymous wrote:So Easter is a little over a week away. Tons of events and celebrations of it in the city that many, many families plan on attending especially the Easter egg hunts for the kiddies.

And OP is annoyed and thinks she is so self righteous to denounce an event that she attended, as a guest, because they have an Easter craft table or whatever for the kiddies.

Think I summed up this thread correctly.

Oh forgot and she and some people on here think that just because there were not other tables of other religious holidays that the school is not inclusive, when these are not even remotely coming up AND she has no idea what other holidays the schools celebrates…..

That’s it in a nutshell folks……..

Anonymous wrote:So Easter is a little over a week away. Tons of events and celebrations of it in the city that many, many families plan on attending especially the Easter egg hunts for the kiddies.

And OP is annoyed and thinks she is so self righteous to denounce an event that she attended, as a guest, because they have an Easter craft table or whatever for the kiddies.

Think I summed up this thread correctly.

Oh forgot and she and some people on here think that just because there were not other tables of other religious holidays that the school is not inclusive, when these are not even remotely coming up AND she has no idea what other holidays the schools celebrates…..

That’s it in a nutshell folks……..

Anonymous wrote:So many unnecessarily aggressive responses. Not all religious groups are OK with observing Christian holidays, even the practices that others might view as completely secular or cultural.

Personally I would be mildly annoyed to come across something like this too, though not really surprised. If it's a one-time fluke, I'd just let it go. But if the school is consistently bringing specific religious observances into unrelated classroom activities, it might be worth bringing to the attention of admin.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I attended at STEAM night with my family at Creative Minds International last week and was surprised that Easter had a station for the younger students. Why bring in a Christian holiday on STEAM night. Why bring in Christianity to a school event at all? It is a public school. I understand that there was a very Christian Santa theme for a literacy assembly in December.
I thought this school was all about inclusiveness. It didn’t feel that way, especially with those of us who are celebrating Ramadan. Somehow that wasn’t a STEAM station.

Do you really think something like this is worth complaining about? Do you know what "inclusiveness" means?

Unless it was clear that STEAM night was going to include non-STEAM religious activities and anyone could sign up, no, I don't think that having Easter at STEAM night is "inclusive" in any respect. That is very different that the typical DCPS everything welcome approach. I do not think it's worth fighting about Christmas/Easter being holiday defaults as long as it's clear that other religious/holiday traditions are welcome; I do think it's worth fighting about religious content from a single religion being added on at a time/place where no other religious/holiday traditions were recognized AND parents were not remotely on notice that they should ask to include their own tradition.

OMG, you are nuts. So what is there is an Easter station. Easter is coming up and I’m nit Catholic. You can request Ramadan or whatever your religion is.

You are going to an even hosted by a school and that school can do what they want. You don’t like it, then don’t attend the event next year but you don’t get to dictate what they do. I’m sure they have other holidays too as they come up. Just because they did not have whatever holiday that occurs at other times of the year does not mean they are not inclusive. And no, my kids don’t go to CM

Anonymous wrote:This would be a huge issue for me (we're not a Christian family). I've never seen anything like this at our DCPS ES or MS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I attended at STEAM night with my family at Creative Minds International last week and was surprised that Easter had a station for the younger students. Why bring in a Christian holiday on STEAM night. Why bring in Christianity to a school event at all? It is a public school. I understand that there was a very Christian Santa theme for a literacy assembly in December.
I thought this school was all about inclusiveness. It didn’t feel that way, especially with those of us who are celebrating Ramadan. Somehow that wasn’t a STEAM station.

Do you really think something like this is worth complaining about? Do you know what "inclusiveness" means?

Unless it was clear that STEAM night was going to include non-STEAM religious activities and anyone could sign up, no, I don't think that having Easter at STEAM night is "inclusive" in any respect. That is very different that the typical DCPS everything welcome approach. I do not think it's worth fighting about Christmas/Easter being holiday defaults as long as it's clear that other religious/holiday traditions are welcome; I do think it's worth fighting about religious content from a single religion being added on at a time/place where no other religious/holiday traditions were recognized AND parents were not remotely on notice that they should ask to include their own tradition.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I attended at STEAM night with my family at Creative Minds International last week and was surprised that Easter had a station for the younger students. Why bring in a Christian holiday on STEAM night. Why bring in Christianity to a school event at all? It is a public school. I understand that there was a very Christian Santa theme for a literacy assembly in December.
I thought this school was all about inclusiveness. It didn’t feel that way, especially with those of us who are celebrating Ramadan. Somehow that wasn’t a STEAM station.

Do you really think something like this is worth complaining about? Do you know what "inclusiveness" means?

Unless it was clear that STEAM night was going to include non-STEAM religious activities and anyone could sign up, no, I don't think that having Easter at STEAM night is "inclusive" in any respect. That is very different that the typical DCPS everything welcome approach. I do not think it's worth fighting about Christmas/Easter being holiday defaults as long as it's clear that other religious/holiday traditions are welcome; I do think it's worth fighting about religious content from a single religion being added on at a time/place where no other religious/holiday traditions were recognized AND parents were not remotely on notice that they should ask to include their own tradition.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I attended at STEAM night with my family at Creative Minds International last week and was surprised that Easter had a station for the younger students. Why bring in a Christian holiday on STEAM night. Why bring in Christianity to a school event at all? It is a public school. I understand that there was a very Christian Santa theme for a literacy assembly in December.
I thought this school was all about inclusiveness. It didn’t feel that way, especially with those of us who are celebrating Ramadan. Somehow that wasn’t a STEAM station.

Do you really think something like this is worth complaining about? Do you know what "inclusiveness" means?