But deciding what to vent about in my blog has proven to be something of a revelation for me about how much there is to vent about in the world today! Do I write about crooked politicians? The environment? Do I rant on about crime and the lack of punishment, or the stupidity of so many people around me? What about religion? If you’ll excuse the pun, God knows there is plenty to vent on with that particular subject.
Odds are, sooner or later every one of those topics will fall under the wrathful focus of my attention! And odds are even better that they are going to, each and every one of them, deserve the tongue lashing they get.
Anyhow, today I came across this story while visiting CBC.com (I know, that’s a whole other vent session, I assure you…) To sum it up, Principle Erik Millet pulled the daily singing of the Canadian National Anthem from his elementary school because the parents of two children had issues with it.
According to the Belleisle Elementary School website there are approximately 230 students in attendance. So for concerns over two students who had to step outside the classroom while the anthem was being sung, Principal Erik decided to make a change that affected 228 others.
Not surprisingly, people got a little testy over this move. Some even got ornery! The superintendent, seeing the backlash building stepped in quickly and reversed the Principals decision – not before Principal Erik had to start seeing a shrink though. I’m sure law suits will follow…
So I have a couple things I would like to get off my chest on this one:
- I don't really care if they sing the anthem or not - they don't do it at my kid's school, though they do sing it at assemblies. But I see no harm in it and hey if it happens to help a generation of Canadian's grow up with a little pride in the country they live in, so much the better!
- Principal Erik, I know you had this foolish touchy feely idea that you were somehow promoting some strange politically correct idea of inclusion by not wanting to make the two students with parents of questionable intellect step outside each day, but come on. This is school – it hasn’t changed so much since I went there so many years ago. Different equals dead in a school population. These poor kids were probably more ostracized by having you mess with the entire student population than they ever were by stepping out of the room for a couple minutes. You really haven’t done them any favours!
- To the parents of the kids who started this whole mess – get over yourselves. If your atheist beliefs (Which you are certainly welcome to hold) can’t stand up to the mention of the word ‘God’ in the national anthem – maybe you should take a long hard look at just how strong they are! Perhaps you’re closet believers! Horror of horrors! And when your done that, look at the damage your doing to your kids by making them leave the classroom versus the ridiculously insignificance of having to sing a song!
- To the other parents who threatened poor misguided Principal Erik – Get your heads checked you morons. It’s not as though he introduced ritualistic human sacrifice to your child, he took away a song! Send in your emails, letters – heck phone and express your displeasure in a reasonable way. Call the school board! Write the editor of the paper! You know, be the proper example of how rational people deal with disagreements in the real world that your child needs you to be! Or go to jail… Frankly I’m not sure which would prove a better point to your kid.
- Finally, to all you politically correct pinheads out there that read the CBC article and sit back and think to yourselves ‘Principal Erik was absolutely right!’ Just stop. Stop trying to save the world from itself. Stop trying to make everything perfect. Political incorrectness isn’t going to go away. Frankly, I feel another vent coming on just thinking about it…
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