Case 1: The multi-cultural club made posters. Hung them on the wall in the hallway. Covered eight or nine winter-time religious holidays including Jewish, Sikh, the made up one, Kwanzaa, and several others that I can't remember. They were very interesting.
Noticeably missing, Christmas and or Christianity. Don't know why but I'd be willing to be that it's not OK to post anything in the school hallway regarding Christian observance.
Case 2: The leadership kids do the announcements over the PA every day. "Good morning, XXXXX High School". Recently they started doing the Good Morning portion in several languages, including Punjabi. Good morning was very, very long so I asked a student what the literal translation was. Turned out it's him reciting it, and it's a religious expression giving glory to their deity for a great victory in a long ago battle.
Again, if the Christian kids were to greet the school with a religious observance instead of Good Morning, do you think it would fly?
It's really bothering me. We've removed all traces of Western Civilization, the foundational culture that created everything that makes this country great on the grounds of "freedom from religion", and now we are inserting everyone else's beliefs into the same public square where it is prohibited to discuss the native populations' beliefs.
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