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?

As was established some time ago the word Christmas hasn’t been banned at the OP’s school.

The professionally offended will have to stand down.

Facts form the very least part of their fury though. Much like the Bible.

"Now that story isn't true. But what it tells us ...."

The word Easter was very rarely found on chocolate eggs. Seems to be a bit of a Mandela effect.

’old traditions should go in the dustbin’ I bet it’s only the UK that you have this attitude about

You. Coming here with your 'facts'. How dare you.

“Christmas” is Yule, to mark the midwinter solstice. Christians can go to church and celebrate the virgin birth. Not because of-one is stopping them celebrating. But stop trying to suggest that our current ‘Christmas’ traditions anything whatsoever to do with the birth of Christ. Santa? Reindeer? Tinsel? Trees with baubles? John Lewis adverts? Nope. Be Christian and live and let live.

Nobody is stopping you from not celebrating. Celebrating Christmas is cultural and an ancient tradtion that predates Christianity. Multicultural societies usually blend different aspects of their cultures - one of its major strengths IMO

Do you need a tape measure for the length of that jump?

The ‘UK’ has spent the entirety of its existence imposing its ‘culture’ on the entire world, so in a sense of restorative justice you could certainly argue that this country should surrender its own customs to make people living here more comfortable. Many immigrants who come to these shores will have suffered myriad horrors at the hands of their British oppressors, people seem to forget that. Conveniently one might suppose.

Well quite, many of the European colonial powers can lose their oppressive identity for all I care. The same goes for the great Colonial failed experiment that is the United States.

Hopefully Chinese hegemony will rise in the not too distant future and replace the white supremacist systems that plague our daily lives in the west.

The ‘UK’ has spent the entirety of its existence imposing its ‘culture’ on the entire world,

With the irony that we imported "Christmas" from Germany ....

Are you unwell?

What a load of twaddle.

What century are you posting from?

You've got two options:

1. Get over yourself
2. Paint a mini roundabout

Or Chinese?

I imagine the PTA just wanted to encourage as many parents/grandparents/anyone else to spend at their fair.

It’s a fundraiser. It will pay for playground equipment or pritt sticks or something.

I suppose the PTA might have grander ambitions than that (overthrowing western cultural imperialism etc) but I doubt it.

I mean, arguing us British should surrender our customs as reparations is completely nuts, but you do have a point about immigrants being drawn to the UK as a direct result of GB having spent hundreds of years imposing its culture on its subjects abroad.

When you've spent decades telling people that their language and lifestyle is backward and in comparison yours is the most advanced and best and an example to the world, don't be surprised when the people you've been advertising it to turn up on your doorstep wanting a piece of the action.

Eurocentric? Have you ever been to Africa? Or America? Or parts of Asia? Christianity and Christmas is far from eurocentric!

Where are you from? How is Moscow these days? Feeling chilly yet?

Christnas is celebrated all over the world from Tahiti to Helsinki. It’s a global phenomenon. There are of course those that don’t celebrate and that’s fine too. I noticed the envy before, and the fact everywhere speaks English is another bone of contention amongst some. Christians exist everywhere therefore so does Christmas.

I haven’t been interested in the affairs of Moscow since the last days of 1991, do not insult me by calling me Russian.

I agree with most of your comment but why is it nuts? British culture is, in effect, stolen from other cultures from around the world. There isn’t really anything for it to lose.

I think maybe you are jealous/surprised that the Brits do have a strong cultural identity that is shaped by Christianity. Unfortunately for you and luckily for us that won't be disappearing any time soon.

Well you are clearly not British so why do you care about our traditions?