Actually this was reported on a very conservative religious web site, and no one has been able to prove whether the teenager, the teacher, or the class actually exist.

Hmm. According to [link] , the teenager (or alleged teenager) was interviewed on a radio show, but the school district won't confirm anything.

Even if the story were true, one teacher coming up with a silly phrase doesn't amount to anything more than one teacher coming up with a silly phrase.

From that article:

True or not, Spheregate follows a few other well-known non-promotions of holidays. The city of Seattle purposely leaves out the word “Easter” from its annual community-center “spring egg hunts.”

This is the sort of thing that drives me nuts. You want to have an Easter egg hunt? Then call it an Easter egg hunt and deal honestly with the questions about how it relates to religion. Or, have some other kid activity that has nothing whatsoever to do with a religious holiday. Trying to pretend that an egg hunt isn't Easter-related is ridiculous.

Don't try to make it seem like you're being inclusive by just changing the names of things.

100% this. THIS.

I believe that people don't really understand what multiculturalism and inclusiveness means. These misunderstandings become stuff on one end of the spectrum like renaming things to show inclusivness and on the opposite side of the spectrum asserting that Black people want to see White people enslaved. Oh, and this is not hyperbole.

Ultimately, power and privilege are a big more complicated than easter egg hunts, and yet easter egg hunts aren't really the problem.

The city of Seattle purposely leaves out the word “Easter” from its annual community-center “spring egg hunts.”

The more I think about it, the more I don't understand this. The word "Easter" got associated with Jesus by the Church putting their holy day on top of the Easter celebration of spring/fertility. So they're trying to disassociate egg hunts from Jesus by not calling them "Easter", right? Do they think the word "Easter" somehow refers to Jesus? What do they think "Easter" means? Do they realize the egg hunts are a relic of a pagan ritual, or do they just know eggs have nothing to do with Jesus?

ita, are they not giving you the dosage you need? Os is it not working for you?

It just hasn't worked. And no one's willing to experiment.

So they're trying to disassociate egg hunts from Jesus by not calling them "Easter", right? Do they think the word "Easter" somehow refers to Jesus? What do they think "Easter" means? Do they realize the egg hunts are a relic of a pagan ritual, or do they just know eggs have nothing to do with Jesus?

Do you think this really matters though? Yes, the connection between Jesus and eggs or Jesus and the word Easter is and always was specious. But that doesn't mean that in the here and now the two aren't pretty inextricably linked.

I'm so sorry, ita.

But that doesn't mean that in the here and now the two aren't pretty inextricably linked.

Yeah, when the church hymnal refers to "Easter" hymns, I don't think you can make the distinction anymore.

For me, Easter means tomorrow is half-price chocolate bunny day.

More importantly, Easter is Clovis' birthday!

Oh god, ita, that's horrible.

ita,

I think you need a pain clinic for real. does your insurance support it.