My other working title was “It just never stops, does it? The Government continued imposition of a secular humanist religion on our young’uns”.
From that Font of School District Woke Virtue Signaling (that would be the Hanover School District SAU70) comes this via their school newsletter. Once again, we see Government School Educators willingly bend (if not entirely break) the strict definition of the word “inclusive” to really mean “only those things that fit our secular humanistic ideology you peons call Woke”. Actually, it’s the old Political Correctness on meth driving a Tesla in Ludicrous mode on the sidewalks of a crowded street- and it is quite happy to run we Normal people in trying to beat their belief system into us (yeah, that First Amendment crap is just no longer worthwhile for us).
And here’s the person who delightfully gave us more grist in determining that all of our beloved traditions and holidays must be swept away in their crazed movement to “decolonize” the rest of us: Lauren Amrhein the Principal of the Bernice Ray School (elementary). Here’s the snippet of her Newsletter that someone got real angry about that proves what I’ve just written and sent to me – that “inclusive” really means “we’re going to take things away from your children that you approve of celebrating – because we don’t“.
Sidenote: *I* do get the chance to watch The Grandson participate in the annual Halloween Costume Parade that our elementary school has hosted for decades. The teachers dress up, generally with an overall theme, and all the kids are happy and having a good time showing off in their costumes.
Which leads to another thought – and this District shows that Wokeness is nothing more than a dressed up Buzzkill. In this case, for kids. Gee, thanks, Principal Amrhein, you became this for Halloween:
(that’s a Halloween version of The Grinch That Stole Christmas, if you couldn’t tell)
OK, enough of that, Skip – get to the point(s):
Halloween Guidance for 2022
During COVID, we moved away from school wide Halloween celebrations, parades, and gatherings. The original decision was made due to health concerns during the pandemic, but we used this time to further reflect on the motivation and objective of celebrating Halloween as a whole school.
Last year we examined Halloween through an equity lens. We decided to begin to move away from costume parties, electing to promote a spirit day over a Halloween costume day. While some students wore costumes for part of the day, others wore certain colors or even participated in a pajama day. We also reduced the overall time consuming nature of Halloween parties in the school and classroom, opting for low key social time and smaller engaging activities.
Low key most likely suppressed any gaiety (can I even use that word without offending yet another Identity Group on the Democrat Political Totem Pole? You know, someone will get offended when they don’t know its real definition – like niggardly that serves only as a word for faux outrage now (but means “Like a niggard; sordidly parsimonious or sparing; close-fisted; stingy: as, a niggardly person.”). Oh, is “totem” still available to a white senior citizen anymore to speak? Or is that “cultural appropriation? How 1984ish…
This year we are fully pivoting away from the celebration of Halloween. Rather than centering a celebration on Halloween, classrooms have been encouraged to think about celebrating learning, community, and the time of the year. What we promote at Ray should be inclusive and consider all students and staff.
Inclusive – I guess seeing all students and staff in costumes with smiles and gales of laughter is no longer inclusive – but I do wonder WHO gets excluded? Those that like our history, norms, and customs as they are? Why does the esteemed Principal wish to oppress people like us (the Woke NEVER think that there are two sides of their Woke marginalization efforts).
- We need to think of our celebrations through the lens of equity.
- We aim to create positive social interactions and prioritize inclusion.
- We need to consider possible inequities that we are creating based on students’ social, environmental, and economic situations.
- We must think about culturally responsive education and ensure that we are not marginalizing or excluding groups of our students.
That’s the SECOND time she’s used that, “equity lens” idea. Note, however, she doesn’t define it. She just ASSUMES that all people reading this know what it means already? Isn’t that, itself, rather exclusive? All that word salad that basically, in the end, means nothing at all.
Now, I make it clear that I’m just a simple guy but would SOMEONE PLEASE translate that for me? I thought kids rollicking in costumes was, by definition, “positive interactions” and included everyone? What POSSIBLE inequities does such a special day create? Did she ever think about the inequities SHE is creating by NOT have such?
Sorry, Principal, but now you are quashing a culturally responsible event and you ARE excluding a large group of students that DO celebrate Halloween. DISCRIMINATION!
And what about those that reject her worldview? Oh, worldview? Aren’t there lawsuits that prevent “worldview discrimination” when pushed by agents of the Government?
This is certainly a departure from past practice but one that considers all students. This is not to say that celebrations and fun are a thing of the past, but rather that we continue to think about the objective and thoughtful purpose of the celebrations. A perfect example of this is our recent Dot Day that celebrated an important inspiring message, a connection to learning and community, and was accessible and purposeful for all students and staff.
“but one that considers all students”, Sure And we see, in this newsletter, the continued replacement of Normal customs and events with new Woke ones – “Dot Day”? Just move current traditions into the mists of time and LOOK! A replacement that focuses on something else more inline with the new secular humanist – the celebration of Self. Or, rather Selfishness. And I’ll be happy to ‘mansplain it (a wee jab at PCism there) to her.
For those that celebrate Halloween, we hope you have a wonderful, safe time during celebrations in the community outside the school. Thank you for your understanding and support of all of our Ray School students and families. May we continue to find joy and reasons to celebrate in ways that support all while we learn and grow together.
Deconstructing society. Telling little kids that they can’t enjoy themselves. I loved that “reduced the overall time consuming nature” bit – I’m betting they didn’t save even a second over their “opting for low key social time and smaller engaging activities“. And what were they engaging in – that we may never know but I’m betting that dress-up and candy and “BOO!” had nothing to do with it. Perhaps a somber soliloquies on respecting the dark spirits, ghosts, and goblins and how Halloween oppresses them as a marginalized community?
It never stops, these Evangelists for Self. As Nitzkahon has said, they are not educators, they are missionaries and they don’t care what YOU are teaching them for a moral foundation. As that long dead German said:
We don’t care about you. We have your children.
And these Public School educators may not think about it that way because they are incapable of empathy from even trying to see from another viewpoint.
Equity. The tool that these Self-Righteous, Ego-driven Jr. High Hall monitor snobs use for the “marginalization” of we that don’t believe; you’re using equity as a hammer with which to bash everything else. As many of commented upon in the blogosphere, they have become the New Puritans with a strict fundamentalist (yes, a religious term, that) dogma about Right and Wrong, they’re own set of Sacred Texts/Scriptures and dogmas that must be always followed to reach Heaven/Nirvana/Valhalla – oh, oopies! They don’t believe in a Life Hereafter, so they just make your life suck and then you die.
Here it is in one fell swoop instead of my fisking mode:
Halloween Guidance for 2022
During COVID, we moved away from school wide Halloween celebrations, parades, and gatherings. The original decision was made due to health concerns during the pandemic, but we used this time to further reflect on the motivation and objective of celebrating Halloween as a whole school.
Last year we examined Halloween through an equity lens. We decided to begin to move away from costume parties, electing to promote a spirit day over a Halloween costume day. While some students wore costumes for part of the day, others wore certain colors or even participated in a pajama day. We also reduced the overall time consuming nature of Halloween parties in the school and classroom, opting for low key social time and smaller engaging activities.
This year we are fully pivoting away from the celebration of Halloween. Rather than centering a celebration on Halloween, classrooms have been encouraged to think about celebrating learning, community, and the time of the year. What we promote at Ray should be inclusive and consider all students and staff.
- We need to think of our celebrations through the lens of equity.
- We aim to create positive social interactions and prioritize inclusion.
- We need to consider possible inequities that we are creating based on students’ social, environmental, and economic situations.
- We must think about culturally responsive education and ensure that we are not marginalizing or excluding groups of our students.
This is certainly a departure from past practice but one that considers all students. This is not to say that celebrations and fun are a thing of the past, but rather that we continue to think about the objective and thoughtful purpose of the celebrations. A perfect example of this is our recent Dot Day that celebrated an important inspiring message, a connection to learning and community, and was accessible and purposeful for all students and staff.
For those that celebrate Halloween, we hope you have a wonderful, safe time during celebrations in the community outside the school. Thank you for your understanding and support of all of our Ray School students and families. May we continue to find joy and reasons to celebrate in ways that support all while we learn and grow together.
