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• Occupy…North Pole! Pricey Private School‘s ’Christmas’ Play Skewers Big Oil, Corporate Greed

  December 20, 2011 at 9:32am

  For those of you concerned that George School has lost the meaning of Christmas, please be aware that the “Holiday” Meeting for worship included a reading of the nativity…as it always does. This despite the fact that many of the students are NOT Christian. George School, like many Friends schools, operates on a platform of inclusiveness and so there are students from all over the world representing all religious, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Solving the problems our world is facing will require the collective input of everyone who lives in it…having a little fun with the commercialism of Christmas is just a part of the overall discussion not necessarily a representation of the school’s views…or the students who go there.

• Occupy…North Pole! Pricey Private School‘s ’Christmas’ Play Skewers Big Oil, Corporate Greed

  December 20, 2011 at 9:06am

  I wonder why so much hate on this forum? Is this what you want to teach your children. You have the right to educate your children how you choose (presumably), but many people don’t. If this were a public school then you could perhaps make the case about indoctrination of the Innocent, but it is not a public school, and the parents of those who attend have selected this school because of its values and ideology. The fact that so many people on this forum want “them” to be stopped suggests that many people on this forum are indeed afraid of a government that allows free speech and independent thinking.

  I appreciate the fact that people in this country are permitted to disagree with my political views, but I am growing wary of the hate. All of you need to get out a little more and talk to actual people…in your own neighborhood…and then in the neighborhood you fear most. You may find that the political rhetoric you espouse is not on as solid a foundation as your disdain for alternative viewpoints appears to be. The reality is that neither of the two major political parties represent viewpoints that allow for inclusive substantive dialog. Instead they promote divisiveness and hate that will inevitably lead to war. So unless you hope to be on the “winning” side of a genocide of ideology you should all take a step back and think about what’s really important. Would you really fight a war for your economic beliefs? Is the play at a private Quaker school the tipping p

• Occupy…North Pole! Pricey Private School‘s ’Christmas’ Play Skewers Big Oil, Corporate Greed

  December 20, 2011 at 8:51am

  In reply to gpk.

  Yet I wonder how much oil stock their pension plans hold?

  Mine has none, but I wonder why so much hate on this forum? You have the right to educate your children how you choose (presumably), but many people don’t. If this were a public school then you could perhaps make the case about indoctrination of the Innocent, but it is not a public school, and the parents of those who attend have selected this school because of its values and ideology. The fact that so many people on this forum want “them” to be stopped suggests that many people on this forum are indeed afraid of a government that allows free speech and independent thinking.

  I appreciate the fact that people in this country are permitted to disagree with my political views, but I am growing wary of the hate. All of you need to get out a little more and talk to actual people…in your own neighborhood…and then in the neighborhood you fear most. You may find that the political rhetoric you espouse is not on as solid a foundation as your disdain for alternative viewpoints appears to be.