Ninety minutes of school holiday music – and nary a note about Jesus
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Posted by Derek Hawkins
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I'm an elementary school music teacher, which a "festival of lights" program (not of my design - it is quite a tradition at the progressive school i'm teaching at). The concert represents Divali, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah and arguably Christmas. Songs such as Jingle Bells, Santa Claus is Coming To Town, etc... are not Christian. This is an important distinction to make and one that many I've encountered do not. The program in the past included the singing of "Silent Night," which is explicitly Christian. I am secular through and through, but I have noticed a serious shying away from anything overtly Christian in both public and private educational institutions.