Screwy Seattle renames Easter eggs 'spring spheres'



Eggs are not spherical, for a start

Show most children an Easter egg and they'll refer to it as just that, regardless of their cultural background. So when one teacher asked 16-year-old Jessica, who was volunteering at their elementary school in Seattle, to refer to the eggs as 'spring spheres' she was stunned.

The sophomore, who attends a private high school in the city, told KIRO Radio's Dori Monson, the incident happened at the end of a week-long community service project at the school. She declined to give her full name and refused to name the school in question in the telephone interview.

Jessica told the presenter she had loved working with the third graders so much that she wanted to give them a present. '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,' the girl said.

Jessica went on to say she had been worried about the gift after sitting in on a meeting earlier in the week where she had learned about the school's 'abstract behaviour rules'.

'I went to the teacher to get her approval and she wanted to ask the administration to see if it was okay,' Jessica said. 'She said that I could do it as long as I called this treat "spring spheres". I couldn't call them Easter eggs.'

Jessica said she decided to 'roll with it' but when the children saw the eggs they didn't toe the PC line. '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.

A spokesman for the Seattle Schools District told MailOnline they had not been able to confirm the incident had happened. 'We have asked around about it but have not heard that it happened,' they said before adding: 'It's a big district. Usually when something like this happens we hear about it.'

However the district's guidelines for the observance of religious holidays states that such holidays can be discussed and recognised in school providing it is done in 'an objective instructional way'.

The actual observance and celebration of these holidays however 'belongs in the home and with religious institutions.' 'Any programme which might be interpreted as religious indoctrination or which promotes or favours the beliefs and practices of any one or several religious faiths, or non-faiths, shall be avoided,' the guidelines state.

The Seattle elementary school in question isn't the only government organisation to leave Easter out of the equation. The city's parks department has removed Easter from all of its advertised egg hunts.

Luckily the annual White House 'Easter Egg Roll' will still be called the 'Easter Egg Roll' this year.

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3 comments:

  1. Way to alienate the southern hemisphere.

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  2. "Luckily the annual White House 'Easter Egg Roll' will still be called the 'Easter Egg Roll' this year."

    Luckily for who? People who like their government to wallow around in religion?

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  3. Eggs are not spheres. You are feeding these children with geometrical crap. Now, go fire that teacher, she needs to relearn her math.

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