A teenager volunteering at a Seattle elementary school was apparently told to use the politically correct name “spring spheres” when she tried giving kids plastic Easter eggs filled with candy.
“They said I could do it as long as I called the treats ‘spring spheres.’ I couldn’t call them Easter eggs,” a 16-year-old named Jessica told a Seattle radio station.
“We have a ‘Religion and Religious Accommodation’ policy, approved by the School Board in 1983, stating that ‘no religious belief or non-belief should be promoted by the School District or its employees, and none should be disparaged,’” it reads.
The incident is gaining international attention and is a hot Twitter topic, with people largely criticizing the board.
Many bloggers and media websites have picked up the story.
“Whenever you talk about religion it raises people’s concern. It’s a hot-button issue for many folks.”
(fromToronto Star)
It's sad that how the mind of some people works in the name of being politically correct.
At Christmas slowly are loosing the "Merry Christmas" greeting in favor or the "Season Greetings" and now we trying to get ride of the Easter. Easter is a convergence of the three traditions - Pagan, Hebrew and Christian, so who benefits from name change? Who s afraid of being target as political incorrect? What the world is coming to?
Political correctness (abbreviated to PC) is a term which denotes language, ideas, policies, and behavior seen as seeking to minimize social and institutional offense in occupational, gender, racial, cultural, sexual orientation, religious belief, disability, and age-related contexts, and doing so to an excessive extent. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness)
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