christmas break and its contraversies(sp?

nobody gets a christmas break, just winter break, its not politically correct to call it christmas break, even though 84% of Americans are Christian..... 

discuss this (not this^): And how can people try to take Christmas off of the list of national holidays (there is contravrsy(sp?) over that) when over 3/4 of the nation are christian and probably 90%+ celebrate Christmas (I have friends who aren't christians but celebrate christmas)....

It irritates me, sorry for lack of punctuation.

Darur wrote: WGP guy wrote: nobody gets a christmas break, just winter break, its not politically correct to call it christmas break, even though 84% of Americans are Christian.....  And how can people try to take Christmas off of the list of national holidays (there is contravrsy(sp?) over that) when over 3/4 of the nation are christian and probably 90%+ celebrate Christmas (I have friends who aren't christians but celebrate christmas).... It irritates me, sorry for lack of punctuation. You just answered your own question

ok, that wasn't the main part of the post,  I'm mainly concerned with the taking it off the national holiday list

Tae Kwon Do wrote: Um what? Some poeple dont call it christmas break/vacation/whatever because other people celebrate holidays that are not christmas during thoes times. Seems easy to grasp to me. Whats the big deal about just saying "Happy Holidays" instead? What are you trying to prove exactilly? Say whatever you want, but when buisnesses and schools give vacations they call it "Holiday Break" instead to cover everybody.

ok, but whats the deal with taking it off the holiday list?

see, I get the winter break, but im mainly concerned with the second part

meteora wrote: because santa is not real

eh, when did I mention Santa?  That has nothing to do with it for most people.

Also,  my seven year old cousin (this is in school) learned about ramedan, but not Christmas,  how can they try to be politically correct in incorperating all of them, but then not be PC in teaching about them?  I sense a double standard

WGP guy wrote: meteora wrote: because santa is not real eh, when did I mention Santa?  That has nothing to do with it for most people. Also,  my seven year old cousin (this is in school) learned about ramedan, but not Christmas,  how can they try to be politically correct in incorperating all of them, but then not be PC in teaching about them?  I sense a double standard

Gee, maybe because just about every kid in America knows about christmas already, but nobody really understands Ramadan?

Tae Kwon Do wrote: Ok, so lets just say they take it off the national holidays list. Why are you so concerned about it? Schools STILL would have to give you your alloted time off anyway, not only becuase they already have a sanctioned number of days you have to go to school (if you didnt take a standered 2 week winter break, you would just end up graduating 2 weeks earlyer becuase of it), but becuase so many people go out of town nobody would show up anyway. Just get over it.

but does that mean they will take hannukah(sp?), kwanza(sp?), and ramaden(sp?) off the list too?  Because if they don't thats not PC.

Tae Kwon Do wrote: WGP guy wrote: meteora wrote: because santa is not real eh, when did I mention Santa?  That has nothing to do with it for most people. Also,  my seven year old cousin (this is in school) learned about ramedan, but not Christmas,  how can they try to be politically correct in incorperating all of them, but then not be PC in teaching about them?  I sense a double standard Gee, maybe because just about every kid in America knows about christmas already, but nobody really understands Ramadan?

ah, "just about" so there are people that don't know about it? what about muslems? they may not know about it?  Im saying they should get equal time.  And most kids don't know about Christmas.  They know about getting presents and santa clause,  but no Christmas because that is not Christmas.  Jesus' birth is Christmas.  Most kids don't  know a lot about that, so if they can teach them about ramadan, then why dont they teach them about Christmas?

Tae Kwon Do wrote: WGP guy wrote: Tae Kwon Do wrote: Ok, so lets just say they take it off the national holidays list. Why are you so concerned about it? Schools STILL would have to give you your alloted time off anyway, not only becuase they already have a sanctioned number of days you have to go to school (if you didnt take a standered 2 week winter break, you would just end up graduating 2 weeks earlyer becuase of it), but becuase so many people go out of town nobody would show up anyway. Just get over it. but does that mean they will take hannukah(sp?), kwanza(sp?), and ramaden(sp?) off the list too?  Because if they don't thats not PC. Hey guess what buddy? Im pretty sure they are not on the list. So would you be for adding all of thoes days onto your national calender?

Definitely not on the list. List means no school.