The biggest festive season usually comes in December. Most people get the opportunity to meet and have fun with the family.
The season is marked with a lot of joy as most people get time to chill after a year long of always working and other busy hustles. School children get time off the book.
Any attempts to deprive them of this precious moment in most cases cannot be entertained even the parents cannot give in to this idea.
A school that threatened to ban Christmas has been persuaded to reinstate it after receiving hundreds of “thoughtful” letters and emails from pupils.
According to the school administration the decision to suspend Christmas festive season to its candidates and make them resume school was based to the fact that they did not see the real importance of having it.
The teacher said there would be “no cards, no parties, no gifts and no Christmas tree” unless pupils wrote a persuasive argument about why the school should celebrate the holiday. The miserly move brought complaints from some parents who described it as “horrible” and “disgusting”.
The administration said that most people have commercialized this festive season and they think it is only best that the students also continue with with their normal learning calendar.
Lady Lumley’s school in Pickering, North Yorkshire, cast itself as a modern-day Ebenezer Scrooge when it told pupils that the true meaning of Christmas had been “buried under an avalanche of commercialisation”.
Religious education teacher Chris Paul told students that Christmas was “a day celebrating the birth of Jesus and should be a time of goodwill to all” but that its original meaning had been lost. Even Santa Claus, Paul said, “was probably invented by the Coca-Cola company”.
Do you think that is fair to students?