A Reasonable Strategy

The Palm Beach Post has an interesting article on religion in schools.  The question is: Which expression of religion is less acceptable - Christian songs in chorus or a Christmas themed play? 

The article points out - validly - that it is difficult to teach choir without understanding the music of the Christian church.  It also points out the contortions that exist when school policies make penguins victims of political correctness in the name of the "wall of separation between church and state." 

"How can one principal say penguins and Santa are religious, and another principal says it's OK to sing Christian music?" said Windmill Point Elementary parent Mary Anne Bender

Reading between the lines shows some shrewd believing music teachers in Fort Pierce.  They understand the political and legal context that currently exists and devised a clever and - so far - effective way to promote an essential component of life and art - that is faith. 

When those in public education continue to clearly demonstrate that they have lost all understanding of common sense by banishing penguins and Santa Claus in the name of religious tolerance, it is a clear sign that the stage is set for the landscape to be altered. 

What is required is the very thing the Fort Pierce music teachers implemented: a reasonable strategy that compares the good with the ridiculous.