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[conuly]

Apparently, this school is putting on a holiday play. They used familiar tunes with new words, in a tradition as old as using "Greensleeves" to sing about the birth of Christ, if not older.

One of those tunes was Silent Night.

Oh dear.

They really should've realized that this would arouse the wrath of many who live nowhere near their district! Using those "smutty, really insulting" lyrics (see, now I wanna see them) instead of the song.

Mind, I have always personally been annoyed at those who re-use old tunes for new purposes in teaching kids. I don't *like* that there's people who don't realize that "This Old Man" is the real song, not "I Love You". But I don't think this is somehow smutty or indecent....

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Comments

[mhari.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. That excerpt sounds positively bawdy.

Only, you know, NOT.

Why are these people alive?

[peaseblossom03.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's smutty or indecent, but I'm getting really frustrated at how far this "politically correct" thing is going. I wouldn't go so far as to say "war on Christmas" because that's just stupid. I just don't think that secularizing everything to do with a religious holiday is the proper way to teach tolerance. I think tolerance is taught by including other traditions, not eliminating them altogether.

[conuly]

I'm not sure it *is* a PC thing. I think it's just a winter play, like people have been putting on for years and years. In NYC, forever, since my mom was a kid or earlier, winter pageants have been just that - winter pageants. And if you do a play, it's a winter play, not a Christmas play.

[conuly]

Besides, it's not the school's place to teach anybody's religious traditions. They'll just get them wrong. Trust me, I know.

[maelorin]

even if by some chance they didn't, the school is supposed to be secular anyway.

[conuly]

Depends on the context, doesn't it? Nothing stops a school from teaching a "world religions" class, so long as they don't push one viewpoint.

[maelorin]

true indeed.

context is king.

here we have a school putting on a winter play. i suspect there would bne no hullabaloo from the insecure theocraity™ if the song used a different melody.

on the other hand, the melody is well known, and not a bad framework for helping the children to learn a new song.

i still cannot believe that anyone could seriously take this kind of thing to a court. if the school wereputting on a nativity play ... that would be a reasonable matter to raise, but the fact that they're not ... looks like we may have to have more wars to sort this shite out - again ...

oh my evolving wonder!

[maelorin]

can anyone say "O_o"


how ridiculous do those people want to look?

[mhari.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. That excerpt sounds positively bawdy.

Only, you know, NOT.

Why are these people alive?

[peaseblossom03.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's smutty or indecent, but I'm getting really frustrated at how far this "politically correct" thing is going. I wouldn't go so far as to say "war on Christmas" because that's just stupid. I just don't think that secularizing everything to do with a religious holiday is the proper way to teach tolerance. I think tolerance is taught by including other traditions, not eliminating them altogether.

[conuly]

I'm not sure it *is* a PC thing. I think it's just a winter play, like people have been putting on for years and years. In NYC, forever, since my mom was a kid or earlier, winter pageants have been just that - winter pageants. And if you do a play, it's a winter play, not a Christmas play.

[conuly]

Besides, it's not the school's place to teach anybody's religious traditions. They'll just get them wrong. Trust me, I know.

[maelorin]

even if by some chance they didn't, the school is supposed to be secular anyway.

[conuly]

Depends on the context, doesn't it? Nothing stops a school from teaching a "world religions" class, so long as they don't push one viewpoint.

[maelorin]

true indeed.

context is king.

here we have a school putting on a winter play. i suspect there would bne no hullabaloo from the insecure theocraity™ if the song used a different melody.

on the other hand, the melody is well known, and not a bad framework for helping the children to learn a new song.

i still cannot believe that anyone could seriously take this kind of thing to a court. if the school wereputting on a nativity play ... that would be a reasonable matter to raise, but the fact that they're not ... looks like we may have to have more wars to sort this shite out - again ...

oh my evolving wonder!

[maelorin]

can anyone say "O_o"


how ridiculous do those people want to look?