Jessica, 16, told KIRO Radio's Dori Monson Show that a week before spring break, the students commit to a week-long community service project. She decided to volunteer in a third grade class at a public school, which she would like to remain nameless.
"At the end of the week I had an idea to fill little plastic eggs with treats and jelly beans and other candy, but I was kind of unsure how the teacher would feel about that," Jessica said.
She was concerned how the teacher might react to the eggs after of a meeting earlier in the week where she learned about "their abstract behavior rules."
"I went to the teacher to get her approval and she wanted to ask the administration to see if it was okay," Jessica explained. "She said that I could do it as long as I called this treat 'spring spheres.' I couldn't call them Easter eggs."
Rather than question the decision, Jessica opted to "roll with it." But the third graders had other ideas.
"When I took them out of the bag, the teacher said, 'Oh look, spring spheres' and all the kids were like 'Wow, Easter eggs.' So they knew," Jessica said.
The Seattle elementary school isn't the only government organization using spring over Easter. The city's parks department has removed Easter from all of its advertised egg hunts.
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4 comments:
Should have went with "Happy Fun Balls" instead....
Bartman
Typical public schools. They "saved" the kids from Easter. But in the process they taught them incorrect math facts: An egg is not a sphere.
My 10 yr old looked at me as if I had gone crazy when I mentioned a city doing this. We now joke about the math skills since an Easter egg would actually be a spherical ovoid I'm told.
The irony is Easter eggs are as relevant to the resurrection of Jesus as candy canes are to his birth. If government really wants to be sensitive to religious views, they'd repeal Christmas as a paid federal holiday (and public sector union holiday). If we can't celebrate his death, at least we can still get a paid day off for his birth!
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