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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.

Santa isn't Christian.

Then explain this: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5613d55ce4b0d85879e992d7/1575904243134-2DVX2FAWWRWZVEYT83UO/Screen+Shot+2019-12-09+at+10.10.26+AM.png?format=1500w

Checkmate atheists.

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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.

Santa isn't Christian.

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Anonymous wrote:My kindergartener is happy to learn about any religious holiday if something delicious is involved. The more shots on goal for special snacks, the better.

Yes, but... people fast for Ramadan. People fast for Yom Kippur and the Ninth of Av. It's not cute to reduce my religion to a coloring page and a snack.

Many people learn about other cultures through food. But by all means, go with scolding. I’m sure it’s just as effective.

Late stage capitalism/dollar store economics reduces everyone's meaningful holidays and belief to the equivalent of a coloring page and a snack. It doesn't discriminate.

One of the things that I've most noticed was the Chinese export business hollowing out locally-made handicrafts from Hungary to Egypt to the American Southwest. I sometimes wonder about how this can really be considered economic progress.

The whole point of holidays is to celebrate.

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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.

Santa isn't Christian.

It's sure at hell not Buddhist.

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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.

Santa isn't Christian.

It's sure at hell not Buddhist.

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Anonymous wrote:My kindergartener is happy to learn about any religious holiday if something delicious is involved. The more shots on goal for special snacks, the better.

Yes, but... people fast for Ramadan. People fast for Yom Kippur and the Ninth of Av. It's not cute to reduce my religion to a coloring page and a snack.

Many people learn about other cultures through food. But by all means, go with scolding. I’m sure it’s just as effective.

Late stage capitalism/dollar store economics reduces everyone's meaningful holidays and belief to the equivalent of a coloring page and a snack. It doesn't discriminate.

One of the things that I've most noticed was the Chinese export business hollowing out locally-made handicrafts from Hungary to Egypt to the American Southwest. I sometimes wonder about how this can really be considered economic progress.

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Anonymous wrote:My kindergartener is happy to learn about any religious holiday if something delicious is involved. The more shots on goal for special snacks, the better.

Yes, but... people fast for Ramadan. People fast for Yom Kippur and the Ninth of Av. It's not cute to reduce my religion to a coloring page and a snack.

Many people learn about other cultures through food. But by all means, go with scolding. I’m sure it’s just as effective.

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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.

Santa isn't Christian.

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.

Anonymous wrote:My kindergartener is happy to learn about any religious holiday if something delicious is involved. The more shots on goal for special snacks, the better.

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Anonymous wrote:OP - it's clear most of the people responding are either Christian or not in a religious minority. You have every right to be bothered by this. Besides currently being Ramadan, Purim and Holi both fall before Easter.

I agree, whether this is actually a First Amendment issue likely depends on exactly what the activity was (it likely was not, i.e. Santa, menorahs, etc.). But you still have every right to be upset about it. When your kids come home home with FOMO about Easter and Christmas is hard. I don't care if they've been largely removed from their religious origins, I'm still trying to raise my kids to be proud about our own traditions, but when they're constantly exposed to Santa and Easter bunnies it's harder - an no, we will not voluntarily participate in even "Secular" aspects of those holidays.

Nope, my kid is not being raised Christian. I’ve just been in DC schools long enough to understand the overall context. If you want your kids to celebrate Holi in school then YOU need to organize it. I’m sure the school will be excited to host you.

If you're celebrating Easter and Christmas, you are in fact raising your child culturally Christian.

You keep making this point, but I don't think any religious minority here is asking for our public schools to acknowledge our religious holidays. (Personally I'm not looking for that at all). We are largely expressing a desire, not a demand, just a desire, that no religious holiday be actively celebrated in a public school classroom.

So no Halloween or Valentine’s day either?

Yep Separation of Church and state. This is not a hard concept

Instead of posting this site, you need to go to your school and start a huge fight over this. Tell your kids teachers, the principal, other parents -- everyone -- that religious anything is 100 percent unacceptable. You need to die on this hill because this is extremely important (snicker, snicker).

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Anonymous wrote:My kindergartener is happy to learn about any religious holiday if something delicious is involved. The more shots on goal for special snacks, the better.

Yep, seriously some people want to take the joy out things for all the kids just because you happen to not agree with it.

Let’s be real, no public school is talking about the Bible or Jesus. My bet was it was a station with bunnies, eggs, or whatever.

OP and others not happy with it, feel free to not attend the event, take your kid out of school for the day or whatever. Just because you are in the 1% doesn’t mean you get to dictate community building and fun events at school for the majority

And to add, it doesn’t mean the school is not inclusive. Like others have said, feel free to host an event showcasing your religion. But it’s unrealistic that the school is going to focus on Islam and showcase that when maybe 2 kids out of 200 are.

It's not unrealistic at all. You don't seem to know what "inclusive" means. It means not ignoring minority interests.
Being rare is more of a reason to showcase. The other 198 people don't need to be educated on what Easter is.

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Anonymous wrote:My kindergartener is happy to learn about any religious holiday if something delicious is involved. The more shots on goal for special snacks, the better.

Yes, but... people fast for Ramadan. People fast for Yom Kippur and the Ninth of Av. It's not cute to reduce my religion to a coloring page and a snack.

Anonymous wrote:I am enjoying this thread because it seems super ridiculous but we're all ignoring two inconvenient facts:

1. There's no public school in D.C. where people actually utter the name "Jesus Christ"

2. Schools in DC would rather spend a week celebrating obscure religions with (rounding here) zero adherents worldwide because equity than acknowledge Christianity is a legitimate religion.