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?

Speak for yourself . Hail the Dark One

Completely agree, all the gammons could at least have the decency to wait til after 11 November out of RESPECT for ARE VETERENS, right?

You do know Christmas is a pagan festival originally? 🤣

I’m surprised at the amount of committed Christians on here tbh. And on Remembrance Sunday too.

Exactly this. Christians are not allowed to complain though. They must all be good little people, and take all the shit, and the denying of the word CHRISTMAS, and people trying to deny it in a CHRISTIAN country.

The insults are already coming from the right-on far left. You just couldn't make it up😆

Oh Behave

Battered CHRISTMAS (to quote your shouting) sounds like a Scottish treat. Perhaps one you like to gorge on. If you can't see why potentially two months of events linked to "Christmas" might not be inclusive there's not much hope for you. Fingers crossed you can relax a little more and reflect this coming holiday season.

The events sound more festive (a party and a fayre) than Christmassy (eg a nativity or mass).

On the subject of the US , they have never not done this. The standard US greeting is Happy Holidays and they refer to the Holiday Season. Hence the Coca Cola song.

This does not stop people from celebrating Christmas.

What are you actually on about?

You just couldn’t make it up

And yet here we are…

No. CHRISTMAS works just fine thanks. It will NOT be going away, despite far left councils trying to ban it from schools. Such a repugnant thing to do.

I saw in the papers today that Charles is no longer going to broadcast a Christmas message. It is going to be rebranded a "Winterval" message and no mention of Christmas allowed to avoid offending non-Christians.

What is happening to are country?

This whole thread is 90% people falling over themselves to say there is no attempt whatsoever to remove mention of Christmas while also approvingly recommending that events, even ones held in literal Christian churches (?!) should call themselves winter craft fayres... Make it make sense.

Personally I think more outrage should go towards those who call them fayres instead of fairs... they ABVU

So are Eid and Diwali, but if anyone suggested renaming either to make them more ‘inclusive’ they’d be accused of racism.

Nobody's stopping you saying Christmas mate

Because no one is banning christmas. OP has got half a story from her mate and from this has concluded that the word Christmas has been banned. There is nothing, even within the half a story which even indicates that it has.

You’re now jumping on a wrong bandwagon which is taking you to who knows where but it’s making you very angry and shouty. Wherever you’re heading it’s a very long way from reality.

It has to be Baa baa white sheep now

https://youtube.com/shorts/WAp9GijecWc

Far left councils fucking hell have you heard yourself 😂😂😂

Two tier Keir is putting people in prison for saying the C words. Wake up sheeple!

Maybe the school should have an all-parents meeting to try to teach the difference between re-naming an event and 'banning' a word? What happens to those who slip and violate the ban? Exclusion? Tarring and Feathering?

My God, the inhumanity of calling it the Winter Fayre (or whatever). As a Christian, things like this make me feel so persecuted on a daily basis, I can hardly cope.

The “winterval” myth has been debunked so many times over the years

The council did not ban the word “Christmas” so people were not offended. They were planning a programme of events that went beyond the usual “Christmas” dates, and so gave the whole programme a different name (such as happens with Winter Wonderland)

See this explanation / apology published by The Mail:

A previous version of this article stated that Christmas has been renamed in various places Winterval. Winterval was the collective name for a season of public events, both religious and secular, which took place in Birmingham in 1997 and 1998. We are happy to make clear that Winterval did not rename or replace Christmas.

It has never replaced the word “Christmas”

Nobody is banning Christmas. Calm down dear. Its time for you to be at Mass, no? Jesus would not have approved of all this hatemongering; He welcomed everyone, and would not have cared a hoot about this nonsense. The message is love, not division. Amen.

Not using Christmas as the start of a fair isn’t the same as banning it though is it? You can still say Christmas at the fair they may even have some Christmas bits alongside the other festive things

agree with @Piggywaspushed the US is all Happy Holidays - Disney have a Festival of Holidays but still have Santa and a Christmas Show

I worked in a school that banned the word Christmas, infact they weren’t allowed to do anything even slightly Christmassy - but it was because the school was located in a multicultural area and the pupils were predominantly Muslim, although it was not a faith school. Is your school similar?