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kpete

(71,901 posts)
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 02:57 PM Mar 2015

Fox News host Andrea Tantaros: Snow days are a liberal plot to strip schools of religious holidays

Fox News host Andrea Tantaros: Snow days are a liberal plot to strip schools of religious holidays

On Monday’s edition of Outnumbered, Fox News host Jedediah Bila argued that schools should start earlier to “avoid angering this religious group or that religious group, and let everyone have their religious holiday.”

But Duffy said that there was something more sinister going on.

“That makes too much sense,” the Wisconsin Republican quipped. “Don’t let any good crisis go to waste, and if you want to take religion out of the public square, look at Boston and look at all the snow and say, ‘What a great reason now, we can take these religious holidays out of our school system.’”

“It’s using the crisis to the liberal benefit,” he added.

Tantaros agreed: “I think the congressman hit the nail on the head. This is what happens when liberal academic Boston meets ethnic Boston.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/fox-news-host-andrea-tantaros-snow-days-are-a-liberal-plot-to-strip-schools-of-religious-holidays/

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Fox News host Andrea Tantaros: Snow days are a liberal plot to strip schools of religious holidays (Original Post) kpete Mar 2015 OP
For some kids, a snow day IS a religious holiday -"Thank God!! No School Today!!" Siwsan Mar 2015 #1
MOST KIDs kpete Mar 2015 #2
I went to school with a few of the 'exceptions' Siwsan Mar 2015 #4
Sorry I take Yom Kippur Seriously MosheFeingold Mar 2015 #15
I was referring to kids who would rather go to school than have a snow day off. Siwsan Mar 2015 #17
For Teachers Too! leftofcool Mar 2015 #3
However, parents probably had a different perspective Siwsan Mar 2015 #5
Us too. Although, I don't remember having snow days back in the 1950's( stone age) leftofcool Mar 2015 #11
You can't even describe or quantify this kind of stoopid anymore. hifiguy Mar 2015 #6
off the charts kpete Mar 2015 #7
It's like Albert Einstein observed, hifiguy Mar 2015 #9
what she said is trUe--look at a map--more snow days is the liberal boston area than in the deep dembotoz Mar 2015 #8
What religious holidays, Evacuation day is secular. One_Life_To_Give Mar 2015 #10
Stupidity really should be immediately and excruciatingly painful to the stupid. hobbit709 Mar 2015 #12
Yeah, but unfortunately it's just painful to the rest of us. bluesbassman Mar 2015 #16
Damn! They found us out. I knew it couldn't last. underpants Mar 2015 #13
And not just any liberal plot...an EAST COAST liberal plot! MindPilot Mar 2015 #14
If snow dayd are such a plot, why would god make it snow so much? Panich52 Mar 2015 #18

Siwsan

(26,178 posts)
1. For some kids, a snow day IS a religious holiday -"Thank God!! No School Today!!"
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 02:59 PM
Mar 2015

At least that's the way I recall it.

MosheFeingold

(3,051 posts)
15. Sorry I take Yom Kippur Seriously
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 03:30 PM
Mar 2015

"They frightened me."

As a Jew, I don't push my religion on non-Jewish people, but I take my obligations related therein very seriously and for you to be Judeo-Phobic is silly. My beliefs are between me and G-d, and should not frighten you.

I understand Good Friday to be of similar import to serious Christians, and I respect them for it.

All that is going to happen now is 1/2 the kids will miss Good Friday and 1/10 will miss Yom Kippur. Much more work for kids, parents, and teachers.

A better solution would be to extend the school year into summer.

Siwsan

(26,178 posts)
17. I was referring to kids who would rather go to school than have a snow day off.
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 03:54 PM
Mar 2015

Big miscommunication.

Siwsan

(26,178 posts)
5. However, parents probably had a different perspective
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 03:10 PM
Mar 2015

My mom was a stay at home mom but when we had snow days, we were probably outside playing for more hours than we would have been in school.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
9. It's like Albert Einstein observed,
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 03:16 PM
Mar 2015

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that even genius has its limits."

dembotoz

(16,740 posts)
8. what she said is trUe--look at a map--more snow days is the liberal boston area than in the deep
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 03:15 PM
Mar 2015

conservative south

Really when was the last time those right thinking folks in southern florida issued a liberal snow day


One_Life_To_Give

(6,036 posts)
10. What religious holidays, Evacuation day is secular.
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 03:17 PM
Mar 2015

Likewise for Bunker Hill Day and Patriots Day (4/19/1775).

Aside from the xMas break what religious holiday does Boston have?

bluesbassman

(19,310 posts)
16. Yeah, but unfortunately it's just painful to the rest of us.
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 03:51 PM
Mar 2015

People like Tantaros just keep cruising happily along in their sheer stupidity.

underpants

(182,285 posts)
13. Damn! They found us out. I knew it couldn't last.
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 03:21 PM
Mar 2015

Our control of the weather was our super secretest superpower now it's exposed.

I hope our control of fire stays under the radar.

 

MindPilot

(12,693 posts)
14. And not just any liberal plot...an EAST COAST liberal plot!
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 03:28 PM
Mar 2015

How do you think a kid in California feels stuck in a classroom on a sunny 90 degree day while on the other side of the country kids just like her have a free day off just because there is a dozen or so feet of snow on the ground? Sure kids in New England get a day off to play in the snow, but do the kids in California get time to play in the sun?

It's discrimination I tells ya!

Panich52

(5,829 posts)
18. If snow dayd are such a plot, why would god make it snow so much?
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 04:06 PM
Mar 2015

Maybe it's god's plot to keep fanatics out of public schools...

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