British schools are secretly cancelling Christmas - Martin Daubney fears his daughter's nativity will be her last
GB News Advent Calendar message - December 06
GB News
It was my daughter’s school’s annual Christmas event last night, the “Carols on the Green”. I’ve adored the community sing-song since my son started at the same school, 11 years ago.
The four-foot Christmas tree we planted on the local Green all those years back now dwarfs even the tallest parent. Every year, we as a community gather around that once-tiny tree, and sing praise to God via the medium of Carols.
And, naturally a splash or two of mulled wine. Only this year, it isn’t called “Carols on the green” anymore. It’s “Signing on the Green” – a decision, apparently, to make it more inclusive.
After all, it’s best not to offend our “diverse community,” isn’t it?
To make sure the “wider community” isn’t offended, the mulled wine has also been axed.
Alcohol offends “certain communities,” apparently. Who’d be offended by perhaps 100 beaming kids and parents belting out “We Wish You a Merry Christmas?” in the open air, you might ask? We all know the answer.
It’s a tiny minority of blowhard Muslim parents who, annually, kick up a festive fuss. They ought to be reminded that, for now at least, Britain is a majority Christian country, and that carols are a part of our cultural heritage.
But, obviously, that doesn’t happen. Increasingly, terrified heads take the knee to the whims of a moaning minority.
Martin Daubney is worried it will be his daughter's last nativity
GB News
In truth, for years, it’s been routine for Muslim parents to pull their kids from Nativity plays – and even school Christmas fairs and carol services.
Imagine putting the boot on the other foot. In the name of “diversity and inclusion,” millions of British children now mark Diwali, or the Muslim festival of Eidh. Black History Month dominates the calendar in October.
Pride flags festoon schools. Imagine if parents complained, let alone pulled their kids from these events?
They’d get a letter from their Head, and perhaps a visit from social services – or even Prevent.
Little Timmy or Olivia might be slammed on an anti-terror watch list. Yet references to Christmas are being altogether removed from many schools, giving the distinct feeling that “diversity” is very much a one-sided coin.
“Heads” we celebrate diversity. “Tails” we erase British culture.
The length and breadth of the land, Christmas Fairs are becoming Winter Fairs.
Likewise, at my daughter's school this year, there will be no mentions of Christmas in any of the songs sang in school. Next week, it’s her nativity play, at our local CofE church.
Since my boy started nursery 13 years ago, it’s something I’ve cherished.
Since I was a boy myself, “In The Bleak Midwinter” never fails to make me weep with joy. But even in church, religious songs are now slowly being replaced when schools perform there.
This year, the kids will sing Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You”. In a church! Even “Feliz Navidad,” the Spanish favourite embraced by millions of Brits got the old “Spanish archer – the el bow – this year.
Like a beacon of hope, Silent Night remains. But for how long? And for how long will today’s multi-faith schools continue to send their classrooms to Christian churches? How long before it’s just too much trouble?
How long before Christmas services are stopped altogether?
Christmas isn’t so much being cancelled, as slowly erased, in the name of “inclusivity”. I’m not especially religious.
But I understand and embrace the fact that Christmas, and carols, are part of the mortar that bonds us as Brits; Christians and non-believers alike.
Take that away, and society starts to crumble.
So, it will be a bittersweet nativity this year.
Because I fear it will not only be Dolly’s last nativity.
But possibly the school’s, too. And, across Britain, how long before the candle of nativity – and of Christmas itself - is finally blown out altogether?
You may like
