Friday, December 20, 2013

Is this as pissed off as you people can get?

Kings Park School on Long Island recently presented its Christmas … Holiday concert with notable words cut from Silent Night. Kids could not sing “Holy infant” or “Christ the savior,” lest “non-Christians” be offended.

Some parents were offended. Sort of. I guess.

“I’m not too happy with that, it’s kind of insulting,” parent Robert Dowd said.

“There’s been a lot of changes in the schools and I don’t agree with them,” one man said.

“It’s kind of embarrassing that they would do something like that,” another man said.

The story notes: “The school superintendent and principal of the Ralph J. Osgood Intermediate School have since apologized.”

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/12/long-island-school-removes-words-from-silent-night-too-offensive-video/#!

School board statement: “This action was not approved by the Board of Education or district administration, nor is it their role to approve the songs chosen for our concerts.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2526672/Parents-outrage-teachers-cut-references-Jesus-Christ-school-choirs-rendition-Silent-Night.html#ixzz2o1wTzpSB

(The Daily Mail calls the statement “an apology,” rather than “an avoidance of responsibility.”

(“We didn’t know about it and that’s not our job, anyway.”

(Equal to: “I apologize if you were offended by what I said.”

(The Daily Mail also uses "Parents" and "outrage" but the story does not support that.)

(Anyway, the point is if “I’m not too happy …” and “It’s kind of embarrassing …” and “… I don’t agree with them …” is as pissed off as parents become in that district, they will not make changes in their children’s education.

(“Suffer the little children …” does not mean “The children shall suffer.”)


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