Cancel Christmas, the Government Owns Your School
The moral case for separating school and state was made long ago. Still, the role that government played in micro-managing the holiday season in America’s public schools this year proved yet again the wisdom of this cause. In the December 20 Washington Times, readers got to glimpse another of the fiascoes which make up our government-run education system.
“An increasing number of public schools nationwide are becoming no-Christmas zones this year in an effort by school officials to accommodate different cultures and not offend non-Christians,” the report began. I feel obliged, so as not to test the limits of credibility, to quote the newspaper directly on these “efforts,” which could arise only under monopoly government control of our schools: