Muslims say: Put Christ back in Christmas

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by slang

There are some people that are very annoyed by anthing remotely Christian. That's fine. I can accept that. Why do we need to change the name of the holiday though?

I think the important question, with regard to schools, is are they really changing "Christmas Break" to "Winter Break" because they fear people being offended by, uh, the word "Christmas"? They seem to have pissed off a lot more people by changing it than they would have had they left it alone. At most, I figure they might be leaving off the religious holiday label so as not to obviously appear to give preferential treatment to any one group of people, which I feel they don't.

...and are they really changing it? I don't ever remember it being called anything other than "winter break", even all the way back to elementary school since the weeks off spanned well before Christmas all the way to several days past New Year's.

[slang]

Originally Posted by Kitsune

...and are they really changing it? I don't ever remember it being called anything other than "winter break", even all the way back to elementary school since the weeks off spanned well before Christmas all the way to several days past New Year's.

In the 70s it was called Christmas vacation in rural Pa. We didn't have all that many days off before or after new year's day though.