Columbus Day, Thanksgiving and Halloween.
According to a report in the Boston Herald the principal, Anne Foley, has sent an email to the teachers of Kennedy school with a warning about celebrating the fall holidays.
In the e-mail Anne Foley wrote " When we were young we might have been able to claim ignorance of the atrocities that Christopher Columbus committed against the indigenous peoples. We can no longer do so. For many of us and our students celebrating this particular person is an insult and a slight to the people he annihilated. On the same lines, we need to be careful around Thanksgiving Day as well."
Teachers have already told the students that they are not premitted to wear Halloween costumes to school. Which prompted the Superintendant Tony Pierantozzi to release a statement to the Boston Herald stating that Halloween is "problematic" because of its connections to Witch Craft.
This has stirred up much controversey in the town as many parents believe that these holidays should not be banned from the schools.
Even sparking this Tweet on Friday from Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown "Lets not take political correctness to the extrene. Let the kids in Somervill enjoy Halloween"
**Do you believe that fall Holidays should be banned from schools?
Personally I believe that, Thanksgiving and Columbus Day are going back to the roots of our country, we are what we are today because of our ancestors regardless of what they did or did not do in the their days. We can not change the past of which we have come from, we can only change the future in which we have yet to see.
My children will celebrate all the Fall holidays as I did growing up, and my parents did before me. At their ages now I will teach them what we all learned at their ages, the good things of Christopher Columbus and of the Thanksgiving Feast. When they are older I feel that they should also learn the bad side of the topics. In my opinion people like Anne Foley are the reason that Americans have lost touch with their Heritage.
