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North Yorkshire School Bans Christmas Because It Is 'Too Commercial'

North Yorkshire School Bans Christmas Because It Is 'Too Commercial'

They want kids to remember the true meaning of Christmas

Tom Wood

Tom Wood

A school in North Yorkshire has taken the drastic measure of banning Christmas because they believe that it has become 'too commercial'.

Lady Lumley's School in Pickering has banned the exchanging of cards, presents, and all forms of Christmas fun until the kids there plead with the teachers to bring it back.

The powers that be hope that this will encourage the youngsters to reconnect with the true meaning of Christmas.

To really drive home the message, 'Father Christmas' even came into the school to tell the kids that if they want Christmas back they have to beg their Religious Education teacher to reverse the decision.

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The teacher thinks that Christmas should be about the birth of Jesus Christ - to be fair, she does have a point - and not all about Santa Claus and presents.

The pupils at the secondary school (yes, it is a secondary school) now have a week to email their teacher argue the toss about why Christmas should be allowed back into the school halls.

The school's headteacher, Mr Richard Bramley, said: "In assemblies this week, Mrs Paul, one of our teachers of RE, spoke about Christmas and whether the message of Christmas has been lost and buried under an avalanche of commercialisation.

"Christmas is a day celebrating the birth of Jesus and should be a time of goodwill to all, yet it can be a very stressful, expensive, argumentative and lonely time.

"Mrs Paul read out a letter from Father Christmas and cited the example of Christmas cards which bear no relation to the origin or meaning of Christmas but carry symbols we now recognise as associated with the holiday season, for example Santa Claus who, in his modern incarnation, was probably invented by the Coca Cola company."

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He continued: "In her message to students in the assemblies Mrs Paul asked them to consider the true meaning of Christmas and to write to her with their reasons why we should still celebrate this time of year and try to persuade her to change her mind."

Naturally, some of the parents of kids at the school are a bit peeved by this. Some have even said their kids are coming home 'upset'.

One person even tweeted: "So the thought police have arrived at Lady Lumley's, Christmas is cancelled unless the students can convince the new RE teacher otherwise in the next week!"

However, not everyone thinks it is such a bad idea.

One person even said: "This is a brilliant idea. A very clever way of teaching the meaning of Christmas and getting the students to really think about it."

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