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Posted: 10/8/2015 11:13:22 AM EDT

[#1]

Back when I was in elementary school we did every year but I believe that tradition is done nowadays. Hell my 12 year old nephew came home from public school this year in love with Bernie Sanders

I highly doubt they're singing Christian carols but I'll ask him to double check.

Posted: 10/8/2015 11:18:00 AM EDT

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Yup back in the day I did.

Thanks to the Proselytizing Atheists, more and more schools are switching to "holiday" programs and songs.

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Yep, me too. But of course, that was back in the 1950s.

And my best buddy Frank stood next to me in the choir and sang right along with us, even though he was Jewish.

I once asked him if he was offended or anything and he laughed. He said his mother thought Christmas was a "pretty holiday" and that they had a Christmas tree and exchanged presents, even though they had no religious interest at all. They just kind of "went with the flow".

What happened to that?

Posted: 10/8/2015 11:19:41 AM EDT

[#3]

I'm pretty sure we did in elementary school. Maybe not the most religious of the various carols.

Posted: 10/8/2015 11:21:07 AM EDT

[#4]

Only if they involve praising our lord and masterblamer....obozo!

Posted: 10/8/2015 11:22:06 AM EDT

[#5]

They used to. Not anymore.

Posted: 10/8/2015 11:25:47 AM EDT

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We sang deck the halls.

You know,

deck the halls with gasoline, fa la la la la la la la la
strike a match and watch it gleam, fa la la la la la la la la
watch the school burn to ashes, fa la la la la la la la la
aren't you glad you played with matches, fa la la la la la la la la

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Unlike you heathens I went to Catholic school so I have no idea. I think we did sing religious Christmas carols when I was in public elementary school, but I don't really remember

We sang deck the halls.

You know,

deck the halls with gasoline, fa la la la la la la la la
strike a match and watch it gleam, fa la la la la la la la la
watch the school burn to ashes, fa la la la la la la la la
aren't you glad you played with matches, fa la la la la la la la la

Row row row your boat gently down the stream
Throw your teacher overboard and listen to her scream

Posted: 10/8/2015 12:14:54 PM EDT

[#7]

yes we did.....

Posted: 10/8/2015 12:22:21 PM EDT

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Yep, me too. But of course, that was back in the 1950s.

And my best buddy Frank stood next to me in the choir and sang right along with us, even though he was Jewish.

I once asked him if he was offended or anything and he laughed. He said his mother thought Christmas was a "pretty holiday" and that they had a Christmas tree and exchanged presents, even though they had no religious interest at all. They just kind of "went with the flow".

What happened to that?

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Yup back in the day I did.

Thanks to the Proselytizing Atheists, more and more schools are switching to "holiday" programs and songs.

Yep, me too. But of course, that was back in the 1950s.

And my best buddy Frank stood next to me in the choir and sang right along with us, even though he was Jewish.

I once asked him if he was offended or anything and he laughed. He said his mother thought Christmas was a "pretty holiday" and that they had a Christmas tree and exchanged presents, even though they had no religious interest at all. They just kind of "went with the flow".

What happened to that?

Progressives messed it up, the same as just about everything else.

Posted: 10/8/2015 12:41:14 PM EDT

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I live in Seattle.

They not only sing CHRISTMAS songs, Santa Claus comes room to room..

Posted: 10/8/2015 12:50:06 PM EDT

[#10]

We did, I graduated in '02.

Posted: 10/8/2015 1:04:02 PM EDT

[#11]

We did but both my kids schools don't even do a Christmas program anymore.

Posted: 10/8/2015 1:11:36 PM EDT

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At the school I teach at, no.

In fact I've noticed over the last 20yrs, fewer and fewer music choices that have actual Christmas theme, instead of holiday theme. I think when my kids first started, I remember Silent Night, but I'm almost positive that ended some time back.

Luckily, I got to celebrate when my youngest son finally made it out of the annual Christmas concerts. I hated those things. Huge mass of smelly people packed into an auditorium. Half the little kids in the audience are either screaming or coughing.

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I attended Rawhide Elementary in Gillette, and I'm pretty sure we did. This would have been circa 1985.

We also did a school play during Thanksgiving that would probably be considered downright racist today.

Posted: 10/8/2015 1:11:43 PM EDT

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Unlike you heathens I went to Catholic school so I have no idea. I think we did sing religious Christmas carols when I was in public elementary school, but I don't really remember

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I went to public elementary school. We sang straight up religious christmas carols. But that was 30+ years ago.

Posted: 10/8/2015 3:31:09 PM EDT

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Thanks to the Proselytizing Atheists, more and more schools are switching to "holiday" programs and songs.

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As it should be. Public school's job is to teach everything, not pick and choose what is correct to teach.

That said we had Christian and non-Christian christmas songs.

Posted: 10/8/2015 3:34:34 PM EDT

[#15]

No idea.

Posted: 10/8/2015 3:47:51 PM EDT

[#16]

The majority of songs we sang in "music" class in public grade school were religious. We even sang a bunch of spirituals, which I'm sure would be considered racist today. The teacher was Jewish, and most all of the musical plays we did were Jewish ones. Or perhaps just Christian, some of the ones I thought were Jewish I just looked up and they look to be Christian.

Posted: 10/8/2015 4:19:18 PM EDT

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We also did a school play during Thanksgiving that would probably be considered downright racist today.

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I played the "Sultan of Morocco" in a school play when I was eight or nine. The teachers did me up in full-on Al Jolson black face - not to be racist, just because they thought it was realistic.

It was also the world's most flamboyantly homosexual interpretation of the role for a variety of reasons, none of them intentional

Posted: 10/8/2015 4:25:51 PM EDT

[#18]

Both my daughters teach elementary in Texas public schools. No Christmas carols, no Christmas parties, no Christmas ANYTHING! They can't even wish their students a "merry Christmas"

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