Why I love public school
Last night at dinner Ione told us the story of Hannukah. She started in and it sounded something like “Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd Century BCE...” and on and on about the temple and all that. THEN she sang us the dreidel song and THEN told us she had actually played the dreidel game as school.
“Can we celebrate Hanukkah? PLEASE??!! Just for one night??”
Apparently, Hannukkah is something to really get excited about. I found this all very entertaining. But then I had a thought.
“Ione, do you know the story of Christmas?” I asked.
She got a right-puzzled look on her face, thought for a moment then shrugged her shoulders.
“Nope.”
I almost fell out of my chair laughing. Jim is sitting accross from me with a painful smirk on his face. Once I calm down I ask him if maybe they teach a class at his seminary where they actually help PASTORS teach their children about the BIBLE. He smuggly informs me that at his seminary one of their favorite sayings is “Being a Christian is just another way of being a Jew.”
People, he was not joking.
Saturday, December 8, 2007