The big problem with the "holiday" season is that some, expecially some in the public school system seem to think that means every holiday except Christmas:


    Public elementary schools in parts of Arizona will perform Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and even some Ramadan music during their winter celebrations -- even though the latter has been over for a couple weeks -- but they wont be singing about herald angels or towns named Bethlehem or a certain little guy born there.

    In an effort to be more inclusive of an increasingly diverse student population, most holiday programs will avoid carols that that mention deities or the Nativity events.

    "We do traditional songs, not religious songs," said Diane Spero, music teacher at CASY Country Day charter school in Scottsdale. "We don’t do religious songs at all."

    This, even though they rarely get complaints and that it’s perfectly legal to include religious music as long as the overall program is balanced. They just don’t want to go there, they say.

    "We just pick a theme that has nothing to do with the holidays," said Syd Hoffman, principal at Bright Beginnings charter school in Chandler. "We just stay away from it."


I'm sorry, but if you won't allow Christmas songs under the "separation of church and state" theory, you shouldn't be allowing songs from other religions.