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Fox News host Andrea Tantaros: Snow days are a liberal plot to strip schools of religious holidays
On Mondays edition of Outnumbered, Fox News host Jedediah Bila argued that schools should start earlier to avoid angering this religious group or that religious group, and let everyone have their religious holiday.
But Duffy said that there was something more sinister going on.
That makes too much sense, the Wisconsin Republican quipped. Dont let any good crisis go to waste, and if you want to take religion out of the public square, look at Boston and look at all the snow and say, What a great reason now, we can take these religious holidays out of our school system.
Its using the crisis to the liberal benefit, he added.
Tantaros agreed: I think the congressman hit the nail on the head. This is what happens when liberal academic Boston meets ethnic Boston.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/fox-news-host-andrea-tantaros-snow-days-are-a-liberal-plot-to-strip-schools-of-religious-holidays/
Siwsan
(26,308 posts)At least that's the way I recall it.
with very few exceptions
peace to you Siwsan!
kp
Siwsan
(26,308 posts)They frightened me.
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)"They frightened me."
As a Jew, I don't push my religion on non-Jewish people, but I take my obligations related therein very seriously and for you to be Judeo-Phobic is silly. My beliefs are between me and G-d, and should not frighten you.
I understand Good Friday to be of similar import to serious Christians, and I respect them for it.
All that is going to happen now is 1/2 the kids will miss Good Friday and 1/10 will miss Yom Kippur. Much more work for kids, parents, and teachers.
A better solution would be to extend the school year into summer.
Siwsan
(26,308 posts)Big miscommunication.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)Siwsan
(26,308 posts)My mom was a stay at home mom but when we had snow days, we were probably outside playing for more hours than we would have been in school.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)kpete
(72,028 posts)looney
peace hifiguy,
kp
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)"The difference between genius and stupidity is that even genius has its limits."
dembotoz
(16,864 posts)conservative south
Really when was the last time those right thinking folks in southern florida issued a liberal snow day
One_Life_To_Give
(6,036 posts)Likewise for Bunker Hill Day and Patriots Day (4/19/1775).
Aside from the xMas break what religious holiday does Boston have?
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)People like Tantaros just keep cruising happily along in their sheer stupidity.
underpants
(182,949 posts)Our control of the weather was our super secretest superpower now it's exposed.
I hope our control of fire stays under the radar.
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)How do you think a kid in California feels stuck in a classroom on a sunny 90 degree day while on the other side of the country kids just like her have a free day off just because there is a dozen or so feet of snow on the ground? Sure kids in New England get a day off to play in the snow, but do the kids in California get time to play in the sun?
It's discrimination I tells ya!
Panich52
(5,829 posts)Maybe it's god's plot to keep fanatics out of public schools...