News @ 11 Oct 2007 02:06 pm by judyorr
A couple of weeks ago I received an e-mail (a filled out contact form from this website) that was pretty bizarre. It was from a person supposedly from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina who was inflamed about the schools in District 122 not being able to celebrate Christmas. He received some kind of e-mail regarding this and told me he was going to forward this e-mail to everyone on his e-mail list and those people will do the same. I won’t quote his exact words, but he was “spreading the word” so everyone would know about Oak Lawn and what this town was doing.
I thought about it for a while before I responded. First off, he implored me to reverse the decision. I thanked him for his vote of confidence but told him that I, personally, did not have this kind of power. I also chided him for getting so upset over a news story that he obviously didn’t follow up on, as Oak Lawn School District 122 is going to continue observing Christmas, Halloween and Ramadan. He didn’t respond back to me.
His e-mail bothered me so I did a quick search on the subject. I found many blog entries such as this one (note that one of the commenters claims Ramadan is not an actual Muslim holiday). Here’s another blog entry and one more out of many that I could put links to.
I’m not taking sides here but I am just showing my amazement at how quickly news travels and how people have now formed opinions on Oak Lawn IL because of this. It is hard to believe how a blip of a news piece about Oak Lawn Illinois could cause such a furor across the country.
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