Today we visited the school library for the first time since February 10th. The school librarian is a very interesting lady with many strong religious convictions which she tries to discuss with students as often as possible. Apparently, a teacher can discuss religion as long as a child brings it up. I gathered this during the Christmas season when the librarian excitedly insisted that I chart the phrase "Jesus' birthday" on the class brainstorm list for Christmas symbols once a student had voiced it. Today she was very, very eager to talk about all the holidays that took place in March (EASTER) and spent a good bit of time trying to get my kids to say either the words "Easter" or "Jesus" so she could legitimately discuss the ascension of Christ. I think that if I had been out of the room she would've stooped to a question like, "rhymes with beezus" to get them to say it. Unfortunately for the librarian, my students (and perhaps most first grade students in public school) don't understand that Easter means anything beyond pastel wrapped candy.
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Hahaha, I love this woman. Are there any other holidays that are in March? Any OTHERS? ANY OTHERS?
She also discussed (briefly) both the vernal equinox and the greek independence day. Her prodding sounded more like this:
"Why didn't we go to school on Friday?"
"Did anyone get any new or fancy clothes and go anywhere special?"
(this got the kids to say they went to church)
"Oh you went to church? Interesting! Do you know why you went to church?"
"Who were we celebrating?"
vernal equinox- isn't that pagan? maybe she was speaking out against it. 'greek independence day'? that is, the most strange- I'm sure all of the students in your school had a strong personal connection to That one.
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