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DUMBING DOWN HOLIDAYS
Schools do more damage than good when they address only the secular elements of religious holidays. This trivializes religion, withholding important learning, while blinking the message that religion is dangerous and divisive. Public schools don’t exist to promote religion, but they don’t exist to marginalize it either, or to promote secularism as a dominant religion. . . . Religion is an important social force. Marginalizing it or banning neutral instruction about it from the schools is not a neutral act. John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, December 30, 1996