“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.
Words fail me.
Hmm. A holiday tree. A spring-sphere hunt… What shall we call turkey day, since we can’t give thanks to Someone in particular? ____-giving?
It *is* Seattle, remember. Several years ago a school in Snohomish County, north of there, tried this garbage with St. Patrick’s Day. Teachers tried calling it “Leprechaun Day”. I instructed my son that if a teacher wished him a happy “Leprechaun” day, he was to reply in a loud voice “Thank you, happy St. Patrick’s day!” and tell the teacher to call me if it disturbed them. It never came to pass, and that phoney terminology didn’t survive another year. It’d be pointless to point out that an egg isn’t spherical.
No wonder our kids are so ill informed. To begin with eggs are not spheres, so to use the term just confuses them. And this person is an educator?
Maybe elipsoidal spheroids is too hard (for the teacher) to say!
I posted this on my Facebook page, and so far the consensus is that a superior euphemism would be “vernal ova.”
Just think. Then E….. could become A Good Hare Day. Seriously, why is so much energy expended on such patent silliness? It can’t just be anti-Christianity or anti-religion, can it? What’s the fear? Why the animus? Larry
Someone I dearly love, who is unchurched, already calls it Chocolate Bunny and Egg Day. It’s exasperating, but really nothing to get upset over. It [i]is[/i] a reminder to be more intentional about my witness to her.
My nominee for first runnerup in silliness are those independent Bible churches that have dropped Easter for Resurrection Sunday.
Jeff #9:
I know of a number of Orthodox, Traditional VERY Conservative Anglicans who refer to it as “The Feast of the Resurrection.” I have no problem with that. Just like “Christmas” is often called “The Nativity of Christ”.