Teach a Life Lesson - How would you do it?

Ok-We just moved %26amp; I am the ';new'; mother in charge of planning the 3rd grade classroom parties at my daughter's school. Last year they were allowed to have ';halloween';, ';christmas';, %26amp; ';valentines'; parties. Now they are changed to fall, winter %26amp; spring. In the process of meeting w/ other moms %26amp; calling to ask for donations for the party....75% or so had something negative to say about the change %26amp; how unfair it was to the kids not to have a ';christmas'; party %26amp; how a few shouldn't ruin it for the rest. some even said that ';those'; kids could sit in the office if they didn't want to participate....Heres the kicker....I'm Jewish!!!! LOL ... I didn't say a word !!!



we live in a larger progressive city, although majority Christian, all major religions are represented so i certainly didn't expect this. I would like to teach a ';life lesson'; to these women...question of the day...How Would You Do It????Teach a Life Lesson - How would you do it?
You are new and your kids are new.



I would be inclined, if only for your children's sake, to leave the life lessons up to life itself.



If you annoy these women, they have the potential to make things very uncomfortable for you and your children.



A possible solution here is that the pupils are given the chance to be taught about and celebrate the many different festivals of the major religions. That way they gain, rather than lose. This, however, is surely a matter for the school? Perhaps you could suggest it to the parents who are complaining as a solution and let them do the moving and shaking.Teach a Life Lesson - How would you do it?
Ive been a teacher to young kids as well...



and Im not jewish hon but I can relate to your experience.



why dont u prepare a short skit about the child that wanted to celebrate Hannukah for example...



repeat the same exact scene u came across with those women in your skit...as background voices ..with a child sitting lonely in the middle of a spotlight flood...and then the child makes a wish...and a miracle happens...his wish omes true and he celebrates his desired event.



what do u think?
Some wise person once said, ';If the mountain will not come to me, I will go to the mountain.';



I really don't have an answer for your situation but I do know this.



Life Lessons can never be taught harshly. They must always be taught with love an compassion. We really all are not that much different from one another once we learn to see past the end of our own noses.
Here is the kicker



Jewish, German, English, Spanish Italian, French or whatever, when in America do as the Americans do!



There are far to many people here whom identify themselves with foreign lands, and that is all well and good for them, but hopefully first and foremost we are all Americans.



America in and of it's self has observed many traditions, and defended our rights liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and it is only now that these traditions, and our happiness is trying to be stripped from us in the name of diversity to please everybody, only it cannot.



I suggest that we continue to observe those things which we as Americans wish to, and which makes our country stand apart from other country's, and those whom wish not to observe those things, or do not believe in them, can return to a land where their customs are practiced, and which they miss so much. as I also find it a pity that we as Americans have become the whipping boy whom is stripped and robbed of everything which we find important to us, including our God, and the love and honor of our Nation.



I wish to be a Free American.



Those whom do not are Free to leave, including the teachers whom wish to promote communistic Darwinian teachings, and remove God, The American Pledge of Allegiance, and Morality from the class room.
Every Holiday has a history and is steeped in years of tradition. Christmas dose not have to be they usual Christmas, but rather a Winter solstice, they still did many of the similar commercial traditions such as gift exchanges. Or you could do Christmas traditions from around the world. How did Halloween come to be.

The Japaneses people celebrate the cherry blossoms on the trees each spring. let the different cultures share how they celebrate each season and Holiday so that no one feels left out and no one can complain because in the end everyone gets a chance to share and learn about others