(10-11-2013 12:42 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  What is encouraging though is that this sort of diversity could ultimately contribute to the demise of the public schools.

It's not exactly "encouraging" to me, but yes I agree it does push us another step in that direction.

(10-11-2013 03:22 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 03:12 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  Liberals fight to remove any kind of Christian symbolism from our public schools, yet support adding a Muslim based holiday to the school calendar. Why am I not surprised.

The kids would get the day off so they wouldn't see any religious celebration anyway.

Are you that paranoid about other religions that you don't even want the calender to say that it's a holiday?

You are one paranoid person.

What part of:

a) Nobody gets a Christian holiday off
b) muslim is the terrorist religion that tried to destroy our country
c) People try to remove anything Christian from our schools daily

don't you get?

(10-11-2013 03:58 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 03:22 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 03:12 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  Liberals fight to remove any kind of Christian symbolism from our public schools, yet support adding a Muslim based holiday to the school calendar. Why am I not surprised.

The kids would get the day off so they wouldn't see any religious celebration anyway.

Are you that paranoid about other religions that you don't even want the calender to say that it's a holiday?

You are one paranoid person.

What part of:

a) Nobody gets a Christian holiday off
b) muslim is the terrorist religion that tried to destroy our country
c) People try to remove anything Christian from our schools daily

don't you get?

Actually, we get "Good Friday" off every year.

(10-11-2013 04:00 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 03:58 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 03:22 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 03:12 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  Liberals fight to remove any kind of Christian symbolism from our public schools, yet support adding a Muslim based holiday to the school calendar. Why am I not surprised.

The kids would get the day off so they wouldn't see any religious celebration anyway.

Are you that paranoid about other religions that you don't even want the calender to say that it's a holiday?

You are one paranoid person.

What part of:

a) Nobody gets a Christian holiday off
b) muslim is the terrorist religion that tried to destroy our country
c) People try to remove anything Christian from our schools daily

don't you get?

Actually, we get "Good Friday" off every year.

Do we?

(10-11-2013 03:58 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 03:22 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 03:12 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  Liberals fight to remove any kind of Christian symbolism from our public schools, yet support adding a Muslim based holiday to the school calendar. Why am I not surprised.

The kids would get the day off so they wouldn't see any religious celebration anyway.

Are you that paranoid about other religions that you don't even want the calender to say that it's a holiday?

You are one paranoid person.

What part of:

a) Nobody gets a Christian holiday off
b) muslim is the terrorist religion that tried to destroy our country
c) People try to remove anything Christian from our schools daily

don't you get?

What part of:

a) People with jobs get christmas off
b) A small group of extremists attacked our country, not an entire religion
c) Christianity doesn't belong in Public Schools to begin with

don't you get?

(10-11-2013 04:03 PM)mathenis89 Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 03:58 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 03:22 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 03:12 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  Liberals fight to remove any kind of Christian symbolism from our public schools, yet support adding a Muslim based holiday to the school calendar. Why am I not surprised.

The kids would get the day off so they wouldn't see any religious celebration anyway.

Are you that paranoid about other religions that you don't even want the calender to say that it's a holiday?

You are one paranoid person.

What part of:

a) Nobody gets a Christian holiday off
b) muslim is the terrorist religion that tried to destroy our country
c) People try to remove anything Christian from our schools daily

don't you get?

What part of:

a) People with jobs get christmas off
b) A small group of extremists attacked our country, not an entire religion
c) Christianity doesn't belong in Public Schools to begin with

don't you get?

The part where you're wrong. Except for A. That's mostly right, but funny enough, irrelevant.

(10-10-2013 11:06 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  What Christian holidays do they get off?

Winter Break and Spring Break are not Christian holidays (and Easter is on Sunday so it's not really a day off)..

They called it Christmas Break long before Winter Break.

I don't really see a problem with this. In high school we did it a little differently. We had a few Muslim and Jewish kids that took their holidays off and they weren't counted absent. That seemed to suffice and I've heard no complaints about it.

(10-11-2013 04:42 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  I don't really see a problem with this. In high school we did it a little differently. We had a few Muslim and Jewish kids that took their holidays off and they weren't counted absent. That seemed to suffice and I've heard no complaints about it.

Of course you don't.

(10-11-2013 04:44 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 04:42 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  I don't really see a problem with this. In high school we did it a little differently. We had a few Muslim and Jewish kids that took their holidays off and they weren't counted absent. That seemed to suffice and I've heard no complaints about it.

Of course you don't.

Out of my bills, my wife, my jobs, and my life, an extra holiday or two that affects a county about 4 hours away from me is waaaay down on my list of worries.

(10-11-2013 04:49 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 04:44 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 04:42 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  I don't really see a problem with this. In high school we did it a little differently. We had a few Muslim and Jewish kids that took their holidays off and they weren't counted absent. That seemed to suffice and I've heard no complaints about it.

Of course you don't.

Out of my bills, my wife, my jobs, and my life, an extra holiday or two that affects a county about 4 hours away from me is waaaay down on my list of worries.

It about protecting our way of life. Our culture, our tradition. Principle. All of which have afforded you and your wife's way of life.

(10-11-2013 04:52 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 04:49 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 04:44 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 04:42 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  I don't really see a problem with this. In high school we did it a little differently. We had a few Muslim and Jewish kids that took their holidays off and they weren't counted absent. That seemed to suffice and I've heard no complaints about it.

Of course you don't.

Out of my bills, my wife, my jobs, and my life, an extra holiday or two that affects a county about 4 hours away from me is waaaay down on my list of worries.

It about protecting our way of life. Our culture, our tradition. Principle. All of which have afforded you and your wife's way of life.

And what's it going to do? Add another holiday that I don't get to take?

(10-11-2013 04:56 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 04:52 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 04:49 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 04:44 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 04:42 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  I don't really see a problem with this. In high school we did it a little differently. We had a few Muslim and Jewish kids that took their holidays off and they weren't counted absent. That seemed to suffice and I've heard no complaints about it.

Of course you don't.

Out of my bills, my wife, my jobs, and my life, an extra holiday or two that affects a county about 4 hours away from me is waaaay down on my list of worries.

It about protecting our way of life. Our culture, our tradition. Principle. All of which have afforded you and your wife's way of life.

And what's it going to do? Add another holiday that I don't get to take?

It's called a slippery slope. It's called protecting an identity.

Would a school in Iran be willing to add Christian holidays amongst its celebrated time off?

(10-11-2013 04:58 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 04:56 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 04:52 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 04:49 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 04:44 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  Of course you don't.

Out of my bills, my wife, my jobs, and my life, an extra holiday or two that affects a county about 4 hours away from me is waaaay down on my list of worries.

It about protecting our way of life. Our culture, our tradition. Principle. All of which have afforded you and your wife's way of life.

And what's it going to do? Add another holiday that I don't get to take?

It's called a slippery slope. It's called protecting an identity.

Would a school in Iran be willing to add Christian holidays amongst its celebrated time off?

So we wanna be like Iran?

(10-11-2013 05:02 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 04:58 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 04:56 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 04:52 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 04:49 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  Out of my bills, my wife, my jobs, and my life, an extra holiday or two that affects a county about 4 hours away from me is waaaay down on my list of worries.

It about protecting our way of life. Our culture, our tradition. Principle. All of which have afforded you and your wife's way of life.

And what's it going to do? Add another holiday that I don't get to take?

It's called a slippery slope. It's called protecting an identity.

Would a school in Iran be willing to add Christian holidays amongst its celebrated time off?

So we wanna be like Iran?

No. We want to be like the United States......

In Mobile County, Alabama, we got Monday-Wednesday off during Mardi Gras week in public schools. The private school I went to (which officially was secular) for grades 6-12 gave the whole week. The Catholic schools went back on Ash Wednesday and had Mass during school.

I know during the 1980s and at least part of the 1990s, the University of South Alabama did not take Martin Luther King day off because of having to fit both Mardi Gras and Spring Break. USA was on the quarter system at the time so I suspect that changed by the time they went to the semester system.

First it will be the Muslim holidays, then it will be breaks for prayer time, the it will be no Jews allowed in the classroom, and finally it will be no bacon cheeseburgers in the cafeteria. We all know they won't stop until they have it all.

(10-11-2013 05:05 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 05:02 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 04:58 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 04:56 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 04:52 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  It about protecting our way of life. Our culture, our tradition. Principle. All of which have afforded you and your wife's way of life.

And what's it going to do? Add another holiday that I don't get to take?

It's called a slippery slope. It's called protecting an identity.

Would a school in Iran be willing to add Christian holidays amongst its celebrated time off?

So we wanna be like Iran?

No. We want to be like the United States......

So why do you ask if Iran would be willing to add Christian holidays? It's irrelevant.

(10-11-2013 05:30 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 05:05 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 05:02 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 04:58 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 04:56 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  And what's it going to do? Add another holiday that I don't get to take?

It's called a slippery slope. It's called protecting an identity.

Would a school in Iran be willing to add Christian holidays amongst its celebrated time off?

So we wanna be like Iran?

No. We want to be like the United States......

So why do you ask if Iran would be willing to add Christian holidays? It's irrelevant.

Actually it is very relevant. I am hoping and praying that people like yourself will one day figure it out.

(10-11-2013 06:54 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 05:30 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 05:05 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 05:02 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 04:58 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  It's called a slippery slope. It's called protecting an identity.

Would a school in Iran be willing to add Christian holidays amongst its celebrated time off?

So we wanna be like Iran?

No. We want to be like the United States......

So why do you ask if Iran would be willing to add Christian holidays? It's irrelevant.

Actually it is very relevant. I am hoping and praying that people like yourself will one day figure it out.

Ooooooookay. It's totally relevant because you say it is.