How should schools treat Christmas trees and religious symbols in school concerts and programs?
“The Supreme Court has never ruled that celebrating Christmas in a school context is unconstitutional. It’s perfectly legitimate for students to celebrate the holidays, for public schools to include religious and Christian symbols in their displays, to list the word Christmas in school calendars. “The problem is we have a lot of school administrators, parents, and teachers who have been misled to feel those things are unconstitutional.” Have a lot of schools actually suppressed the use of the word ‘Christmas?’ “Thanks to the ACLU and allies like Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Christmas has been eliminated from many public schools now. It’s been banned out of fear. “There are plenty of examples. Kids are banned from wishing our soldiers ‘Merry Christmas;’ that’s in Plano, Texas. In Mine Hill, N.J., they changed the words of ‘Silent Night’ to ‘silent night, winter night.’ In Jackson County, Ga., teachers were told they couldn’t wish students ‘Merry Christmas.’ “It’s
