In the article, “School Slams Door on Santa” written by Todd Starnes, a Connecticut school has placed a ban on all religious symbols, including Christmas trees and Santa Claus. At the Fairfield Ludlowe High School, there is a door decorating contest yearly and many students and teachers are excited to participate. In one of the classrooms, many students produced ideas including a Christmas tree and a “Santa Claus-inspired fireplace design”. Both ideas had gotten rejected by the teacher, leaving many students confused on why they could not use their non-offensive and creative ideas. Starnes hear the drama from a friend whose child goes to the high school so he decides to call the headmaster, Greg Hatzis to confirm the accusations. Hatzis says …show more content…
Christmas time is my favorite time of the year, and I know many people who agree with that. Excluding certain, or all, religions in my opinion hurts the students more than helping by making them become less creative. I disagree smaller religious holidays are excluded, but I think they could be more of a part of school. I think by educating students about all religions would help this issue and allow them to have a more diverse mind. I think the school-wide door decorating contest would be fun if you were allowed to choose what you would like to put on it as long as it is not offensive to anyone. I think it is extremely weird how Christmas trees are not allowed, but candy canes, another Christmas themed decoration, are allowed. I do not understand why you cannot celebrate every holiday, instead of celebrating none of them. In my mind I compare the school system before any of these exclusions to the saying, “Happy Holidays”. This saying means to me that you can be happy and you can celebrate no matter what you are happy about. Now the schools are like, “we want you to be happy but not for any reason”. The schools want students to be happy, but not for holidays or religious reasons. This says much about how America’s education system is flawed and needs to be