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Madison, Alabama: “Teachers at Heritage Elementary School in Madison were informed Monday their plans to have an ‘academic egg hunt\u2019 with their kindergarten and second grade students would need to be scrapped,” because they\u2019re getting rid of the word “Easter.” “Easter” is not permitted. There can still be an Easter Bunny, but it\u2019s just a bunny. There can still be an Easter egg roll, but it can\u2019t be an Easter egg roll. Just an egg roll. Easter is being eliminated because it\u2019s not inclusive.<\/p>\n

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“The school\u00c2\u2019s principal, Lydia Davenport, informed staff no activities related to or centered around any religious holiday would be allowed in the interest, she says, of religious diversity among students.” Religious diversity means no religion. Does it work that way with other diversities? So the principal, Lydia Davenport said, yeah, we had it in the past, but we\u2019re going to get rid of it. This Easter business, it\u2019s too exclusionary. Not everybody\u2019s a Christian. Not everybody believes in Easter. We\u2019re not going to force Easter on people in our school. We\u2019re not going to permit it to happen. So it\u2019s gone. Alabama.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: We\u2019ve got a sound bite of the principal in Alabama, Lydia Davenport, announcing the elimination of anything to do with Easter at her school.<\/p>\n

DAVENPORT: Kids love the bunny and we just try to make sure that we don\u2019t say the Easter Bunny so that we don\u2019t infringe on the rights of others. Because people relate the Easter Bunny to religion.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Really? Who worships the Easter Bunny? Why even have a bunny? I mean, it\u2019s Easter. They\u2019re going to have the bunny, but we\u2019re not going to have anything to do with Easter. So why have the bunny? Kids love the bunny, but we\u2019re not going to say the Easter Bunny. We don\u2019t want people to know that there\u2019s anything going on here that\u2019s religious. Well, what\u2019s the point? What\u2019s this, the bunny holiday? Why are we celebrating the bunny? What\u2019s the big deal? Who worships a bunny? Why even bother with this?<\/p>\n

I tell you what: Let\u2019s do the bunny thing in August when no school\u2019s going on. Do the bunny thing before school starts so this principal is not faced with this kind of pressure. The eggs might spoil a little bit out there. You have to take some care on that, but still.<\/p>\n

Did you know that anybody worshipped the bunny? I didn\u2019t, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Madison, Alabama: “Teachers at Heritage Elementary School in Madison were informed Monday their plans to have an ‘academic egg hunt\u2019 with their kindergarten and second grade students would need to be scrapped,” because they\u2019re getting rid of the word “Easter.” “Easter” is not permitted. 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