Our school has banned the word Christmas?

[Fayethefair]

I’ve heard from a friend on my DD’s school’s ptfa that our Cambridgeshire school has banned the word Christmas to make the school events feel more inclusive. So now it’s Festive Party, Festive Fayre etc. I’m happy to let mumsnet know the name of the school if they don’t feel this post is genuine so they can check this themselves but I won’t put names on here as this is my child’s school, I just don’t think this right and want to see what others think.

My daughter attended a Diwali lunch put on by the school recently and I genuinely thought this was lovely. I feel everything should be represented equally, I don’t understand or agree that the head should be picking and choosing what’s allowed and what isn’t. Surely this isn’t right?

You consider a Cambridgeshire primary school's winter fair your major Christian festival? Because as far as I can see, that's all that's been renamed.

What do you think Gehen? 😅🫣

People are getting trigger happy with the report button now 🤣

DC primary school did this and did say it was because " Christmas" could be offensive 🙄

Parents went nuts but I imagine there were some constructive discussions had as the school ended up changing all their comms to "Christmas and Winterval Festivities" and sent out an apology for the error in comms 😬

So i can believe this op!

Exactly. I am a Christian and I'd be happy to just call actual religious bits like the carol service "Christmas" and everything else "winter or festive". There are loads of festivals in midwinter of all sorts of religions going back to pagan times.

An incredible amount of effort to repeatedly let people know you don't understand the meaning of the word banned

OP, you said you would name the school. I asked you hours ago to do so. You have not. You have continued to post. This is a RIGHT WING RUMOUR. You have no credibility.

I call bullshit.

Nice attempt at rage baiting, tho.

Surely it means a group of people gathered together to sing the same song ?

Oh, no. That's band.

The problem is the celebration for Diwali was only special lunch, it sounds like for Christmas they have a fayre and a big party. That’s hardly the same! If they’re not having a big party and a fayre etc for any other religious festival and if these events coincide with what would normally be end of term parties it doesn’t seem unreasonable to change the name to make them more inclusive. It doesn’t sound like there is anything to suggest the word Christmas is ‘banned’ entirely and the school may well still have a Christmas dinner similar to the Diwali lunch, it sounds like it’s just changing the name of two big, main school events to be more inclusive and not putting all the focus for the two big events on a religious holiday.

Generally, in history, after the Romans got bored, the most persecution of Christians has been at the hands of other Christians (to the bafflement of Jews and Muslims everywhere).

No, no, you're thinking of a type of product manufactured by a particular company under a particular name.

The word is brand.

The British have a long history of banning Christmas, Oliver Cromwell would approve 🤣

So you support the banning of the word Christmas?
people like you are part of the problem.
our culture is being erased and you think it is some kind of joke.

Ok one thing I would like to see banned is that fucking awful psuedo-word "fayre".

If you mean food, it's 'fare'. If you mean an event with stalls and rides, it's 'fair'.

"Fayre" can get in the bin and I would gladly see it banned.

So right it's akshuly discustin 😡

Little bit of a woosh there, I'm afraid.

"Our culture is being erased" - don't be so daft. Watch TV for five minutes or visit your local supermarket, you won't be able to escape Christmas.

I just spent too much time on Tumblr in the early 10s 😔

😂😂

Well someone had to. Just glad it wasn't me ...

You actually think there wasn't an existing midwinter celebration or two?

I was hoping so.

Rip off Fayre? perhaps

I don't HAVE to join a knitting circle

Well, no. But there is the germ of a Netflix smash hit there somewhere.

"Bitch'n'Stich" is a bit too obvious. But remember Mia Wallace ...