This is just so laughably politically correct.
St. Patrick’s Day is probably the least religious holiday with the word “Saint” in it. It’s about as religious as Arbor day and twice as drunk. But one public school finds St. Patrick’s Day way too overtly religious and is renaming it O’Green Day. Seriously.
960 WELI reports:
At the Soule Road School in Wilbraham, St. Patrick‘s Day has been replaced as the name for the school’s celebration surrounding the popular holiday. It’s been replaced with the generic “O’Green Day.” MassLive.com’s Patrick Johnson calls the move “a heavy-handed attempt to instill political correctness among the impressionable 4th and 5th graders.”
The school’s principal, Lisa Curtin, is apparently looking to become more inclusive. So, rather than tout St. Patrick’s Day, she has purportedly come up with a way to circumvent the faith-related nature of the holiday. The school apparently did something similar for St. Valentine’s Day, which, in some classrooms, was referred to as “Caring and Kind Day.”
If asked, I’m sure they’d say something about the separation of church and state or some such idiocy. Sometimes you just have to laugh at the imbecility of these kinds of things.
March 16, 2012 at 1:02 am
Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. They are just watching out for their skins.
March 16, 2012 at 1:09 am
Oh, man. This is just about three towns over from me in idiotic western Massachusetts. Thank God I'm not from here originally; it's embarrassing enough to tell others I live here and having to answer, "What's wrong with you people in Massachusetts?" This entire state is Satan's rec room. Pray for us.
March 16, 2012 at 1:35 am
And what will they celebrate on O'Green Day? The colour green?? How wonderful.
March 16, 2012 at 2:27 am
Why rename it? Well I was in elementary school 15-20 years ago, the only thing done for St. Patrick's Day was a lesson on something Irish and cookies with green frosting brought in by the class moms.
I highly doubt that's is so religious to need renaming.
March 16, 2012 at 2:36 am
About the only religious holiday with an actual person's name attached to it is St. Martin Luther King's Day.
(rim shot)
Thank you! I'm here til Thursday. Try the veal.
March 16, 2012 at 2:42 am
O'puke.
March 16, 2012 at 4:29 am
How about "Irish Heritage Day"? That's at least not condescending.
March 16, 2012 at 5:10 am
O' Good Lord…this is political correctness run amuck.
March 16, 2012 at 5:23 am
When I was in school, all we did is wear green and pinch those who didn't.
March 16, 2012 at 5:25 am
It's on a Saturday so the kids won't be at the indoctrination center. The propagandistas can call it whatever they want to. My kids will be at the pub.
March 16, 2012 at 5:30 am
When are we going to rename Saint Louis, MO; San Francisco, CA; San Jose, CA; San Diego, CA; Santa Barbara, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Saint John, MI; Saint Louis, MI; Saint Petersburg, FL; Saint Francis, WI; Saint George, UT; San Antonio, TX; Santa Fe, NM; Saint Matthews, KY; Saint Paul, MN; Saint Charles, IL; Saint Albans, WV; Saint Helens, OR; Saint Marys, OH, and the rest?
March 16, 2012 at 5:32 am
Pray for these types of people.
March 16, 2012 at 11:11 am
An entire holiday devoted to one color? CHROMIST!!
March 16, 2012 at 2:54 pm
"Obnoxious Drunk Day" would be a better substitute.
Thank God it is on a Saturday this year.
March 16, 2012 at 3:56 pm
My older kids go to Kennedy Catholic High School. The usually have St. Patrick's Day off. This year since the high holy day is on Saturday the kids got today off!
I love this school!
March 16, 2012 at 4:12 pm
O'American Idiot.
Don't want to be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation under the new media
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
…
O'Green Day 2004
March 16, 2012 at 4:35 pm
Better change Valentine's Day to "Red Day." That would serve as a statement of purpose as well, would it not?
March 16, 2012 at 5:45 pm
Dan, We're just over the border in CT..'tis crazy around here.
March 17, 2012 at 3:12 am
Do these liberal nuts also notice that the "O" in their new-found name is degrading and ethnically insensitive?
March 17, 2012 at 5:13 am
Wait! Not inclusive enough! Green is only ONE of the secondary colours! What about orange and purple? they have feelings too you know!