I guess I think there's a scale. Go ahead and bring in records of Christmas and Hannukah music, but leave "Jesus, our heavenly savior" for the Church and play "Frosty" and "Dreidel Dreidel" for children? I agree that children learn by doing, but I also don't think that what I'm asking is entierly unfair.
The issue, I think, is that most Christmas celebrations by virtue of the families who partake in them, do play favorites. I suppose that it makes some sense, if you have a class that's 80% Christian, 10% Jewish and 10% other to be heavy on Christmas music, but you're still playing favorites. Especially if half of your christmas songs are religious, but none of your Jewish or other songs are.
In my school, nobody sang Adom Olan or anything like that. I think we sang Dreidel Dreidel exclusively, except for the year we sang "Light One Candle". Now Kristen brings up a good point that in the grand scheme of things, Hannukah is a pretty minor holiday, at least religiously. There isn't as many appropriately religious songs or such to tell about Hannukah as there are certain other more important holidays. Like Christmas, Hannukah has been "elevated" into a secular gift-grabbing bonanza.
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Date: 2004-12-21 12:50 pm (UTC)The issue, I think, is that most Christmas celebrations by virtue of the families who partake in them, do play favorites. I suppose that it makes some sense, if you have a class that's 80% Christian, 10% Jewish and 10% other to be heavy on Christmas music, but you're still playing favorites. Especially if half of your christmas songs are religious, but none of your Jewish or other songs are.
In my school, nobody sang Adom Olan or anything like that. I think we sang Dreidel Dreidel exclusively, except for the year we sang "Light One Candle".
Now Kristen brings up a good point that in the grand scheme of things, Hannukah is a pretty minor holiday, at least religiously. There isn't as many appropriately religious songs or such to tell about Hannukah as there are certain other more important holidays. Like Christmas, Hannukah has been "elevated" into a secular gift-grabbing bonanza.