Don’t Call Them Easter Eggs, Intolerant Monsters! They are Spring Spheres


A Seattle public school has decided that Easter eggs are super offensive and not politically correct. They’ve renamed them Spring Spheres (even though eggs are not spheres. This is our public education system at work, people):

“At the end of the week I had an idea to fill little plastic eggs with treats and jelly beans and other candy, but I was kind of unsure how the teacher would feel about that,” Jessica said.

She was concerned how the teacher might react to the eggs after of a meeting earlier in the week where she learned about “their abstract behavior rules.”

“I went to the teacher to get her approval and she wanted to ask the administration to see if it was okay,” Jessica explained. “She said that I could do it as long as I called this treat ‘spring spheres.’ I couldn’t call them Easter eggs.”

Rather than question the decision, Jessica opted to “roll with it.” But the third graders had other ideas.

“When I took them out of the bag, the teacher said, ‘Oh look, spring spheres’ and all the kids were like ‘Wow, Easter eggs.’ So they knew,” Jessica said.

Of course they knew. Because they were Easter eggs.

Oh, it’s Seattle, one might say. Of course such things happen there. Hippies! Well, a similar thing occurred in my old hometown in New Jersey. The town Easter egg hunt was changed to “Spring Celebration. With Bunny.”

For reals.

They have since changed it again. One of the dreaded “E” words is no longer forbidden.  No, no… not Easter. That would be going too far! They only allow the word “egg” again.

Annual Spring Egg Extravaganza
by Jack Terhune on Mon, Apr 11 2011 11:31 AM

The Annual Spring Egg Extravaganza Is this Saturday April 16, 2011 in Wood Park. The “Hunt” begins at 10:30 A.M. sharp so don’t be late!!!
Jack Terhune

I don’t know what a “Spring” egg is.  How is it different from, say, a Summer egg? It looks better in different colors? What if you get a Fall egg instead? Will it clash with all the rest?

It should be noted that I no longer live there, what with being an evil conservative, intolerant diversity-hater and all.

This town in New Jersey is rather swanky. And leans Democrat by a very large margin. Most of the time, there isn’t even a Republican on the ballot, come city council election time. It is mostly white and primarily Christian and Jewish. In my nearly 40 years, I’ve yet to come across a person of the Jewish faith who was offended by Easter bunnies or Easter eggs.  But, I suppose my 40 years of “rich life experiences” don’t count, since I’m plain old Caucasian.

But reality is not taken into consideration, natch. The Left’s default position is that other cultures, no matter how barbaric, must be not only tolerated, but embraced. In fact, we should give up some of our rights – like free speech – just to be all tolerant and accepting. It’s enlightened multiculturalism and all! Plus, they don’t know any better. We can’t expect them to have moral compasses. We have to just pat them on the head and appease them.

In other left-leaning towns, schoolchildren -while avoiding icky words like Jesus or Easter eggs, of course – were even taken on field trips to mosques where they learned how to pray to Allah and were told how awesome Islam is for women. Funnily enough, they weren’t taught about how many Muslim clerics boast that Islam honors women. By beating them. Ah, tolerance and diversity!

American traditions, however? Must be eradicated. They are the root of all evil, you see.  Anyone who doesn’t believe the same, must be a redneck-y rube. Love to see children frolicking and giggling, searching for Easter eggs – and calling them that?

You are obviously bitterly clinging to your bible. I’m sure it’s somehow racist and anti-woman, too.

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h/t TV’s Andy Levy

Cross-posted (modified) from NewsRealBlog


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That's Seattle

Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Tuesday, April 12th at 2:42PM EDT (link)

Do these spheres get dropped on the ground by the Ether Bunny and his loveable sidekick Cap’n Chronic?

Mr. Obama is pretending that an economic “recovery” is underway when he knows damn well that the banking system is just blowing smoke up the shredded *** of what’s left of that economy – James Howard Kunstler

Teehee...

Incredible (Diary) Tuesday, April 12th at 4:50PM EDT (link)

I wonder how many Redstater’s know the Ether Bunny? This isn’t Ace of Spades, you know?!

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Thomas Jefferson

If They Are The Wise And Intelligent Folk I Believe Them To Be,

Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Wednesday, April 13th at 9:00AM EDT (link)

very, very few know that particular varmint personally!

Mr. Obama is pretending that an economic “recovery” is underway when he knows damn well that the banking system is just blowing smoke up the shredded *** of what’s left of that economy – James Howard Kunstler

 
 
 

If they knew

PowerToThePeople (Diary) Tuesday, April 12th at 2:54PM EDT (link)

just how stupid their ignorant PC attempts at “clever” are, they would just start to understand why most of normal society just look at them, sigh deeply, and shake their heads.

Whoever was behind the spring sphere joke should receive a very hard slap on the forehead just for being that stupid.

not the forehead

4suramcan Wednesday, April 13th at 11:25AM EDT (link)

on his face

 
 

So do I change my name?

plwinteregg Tuesday, April 12th at 3:46PM EDT (link)

Ok, my last name is Winteregg (seriously). So are we going to force folks with names that ‘offend’ to change them? How about the young son of a good friend of mine named “Christian”, or the folks I knew years ago with the last name “Easterhouser”, or the girl I knew in high school named “Faith”? The state DMV already kicks out anything that smacks of being ‘religious’ or may otherwise be offending PC standards. Will we soon be telling parents that there are some names they just can’t use for their children? Do we force folks with last names that have stood for generations and centuries they have to change them?

Change Names?

edintexas Wednesday, April 13th at 8:46AM EDT (link)

Nope, they won’t have to change the names, just misspell, er – engage in creative spelling of the names as so many parents have done in the past decade or so.

 
 

I hope she doesn't teach geometry

vamoose Tuesday, April 12th at 4:27PM EDT (link)

An egg is not a sphere. It’s move correctly an ellipsoid. Evidently teacher must object to both Easter AND Egg. Next time she will side step the issue and object to the sugar in the candy.

 

Spring Spheres...? Uh hoh please...

NeoKong (Diary) Tuesday, April 12th at 4:34PM EDT (link)

Honestly…who came up with that ? It’s terrible.
Where’s the imagination ?
I can do better than that.

Why not call them Pro choice Birthing Orbs….?
This way the children will learn that not all eggs should be hatched and that sometimes it is much more convenient if they don’t and the premise is reinforced with a candy reward.

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That's Really Good!

edintexas Wednesday, April 13th at 8:49AM EDT (link)

Appropriate (to coastal WA state for sure) and creative. Wonder how many will miss the sarcasm?

 
 

I will say it again

davidleigh Tuesday, April 12th at 4:44PM EDT (link)

..and make no apologies for it. When I read these kind of things, when I hear them argued loudly on TV, I get so beside myself with it I conclude maybe it is best America breaks up into several countries. You go your way, we’ll go ours. Maybe we’re simply morally and spiritually “broke.”

This is more than politics: you have a large portion of society that doesn’t believe in God…any God, and they are hostile to the one true God, and His Son, Jesus. Christ made it perfectly clear saying the world hated Him first and they will hate you. As a Believer I am sick and tired of this constant beat-down. Why don’t Ameicans stand up and put a stop to this? Where are the brave Americans? Where are the brave Christians?

It is beyond out-of-control. I’m 52 years old and I miss the Amercia I grew up with. I miss it terribly and the way it is now it appears a war is not out of the question to save her because it is going to get worse each year. In fact, it is getting must worse with each passing quarter.

 

This is just stupid.

runner12 (Diary) Tuesday, April 12th at 5:27PM EDT (link)

The saddest part is the lack of outrage by the parents. Have they lost all ability to think for themselves or do they just do what the school tells them to do?

 

We've sunk to a pretty low depth...

Steve Maley (Diary) Tuesday, April 12th at 5:50PM EDT (link)

…when the popular culture can’t tolerate the most secular, pagan-based symbols associated with Christian holidays.

I mean, it’s not that they’re objecting to overt scriptural symbols like crucifixes & creches, they’re offended by Christmas trees, yule logs, Easter eggs and bunnies.

IIRC, the White House is still hosting its Easter Egg Roll, but the eggs are hardwood collectibles, so as not to deal with egg breakage on the lawn.

The blogger formerly known as ‘Vladimir’.

 

Chalk this up as more proof that teachers are the most

mbecker908 (Diary) Tuesday, April 12th at 5:53PM EDT (link)

overpaid and underchallenged people in the workforce.

Change

As PJ O'Rourke put it

aesthete (Diary) Tuesday, April 12th at 6:57PM EDT (link)

if you’ve dated an Ed major, you know what’s wrong with the education system in America.

Well, he didn’t use the word “dated”, but close enough.

“It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”
-P.J. O’Rourke

I clicked reply before I got to the second sentence.

mbecker908 (Diary) Tuesday, April 12th at 8:07PM EDT (link)

And while I haven’t been fishing in those waters for 30 years I can’t imagine that it’s any different today than when I was in school.

Change

Yep.

aesthete (Diary) Tuesday, April 12th at 8:27PM EDT (link)

Getting told by my lily-white Ed major date that society is oppressing me for my color as I insisted that it was not… heh, good times.

“It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”
-P.J. O’Rourke

Dude!

mbecker908 (Diary) Tuesday, April 12th at 11:06PM EDT (link)

You musta had ‘em lined up.

Change

Well, I'm no ladykiller

aesthete (Diary) Tuesday, April 12th at 11:12PM EDT (link)

but I don’t have a hard time finding dates, either. I’ve definitely had my fair share of strange dates, that’s for sure… *shudders*

“It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”
-P.J. O’Rourke

One reason I

mbecker908 (Diary) Tuesday, April 12th at 11:29PM EDT (link)

don’t drink anymore.

Change

 
 
 
 
 
 

These Comments

donnybrooke Wednesday, April 13th at 12:01PM EDT (link)

remind me of something I once read.

“Those who can, do. Those who can’t, become Educators’.

“Journalists were never intended to be the cheerleaders of a society, the conductors of applause, the sycophants. Tragically, that is their assigned role in authoritarian societies, but not here — not yet.”
– Chet Huntley -

 
 

There are 75 Catholic Schools in the Seattle Diocese

jackhammer Wednesday, April 13th at 3:54AM EDT (link)

and I am sure whatever denomination you are there are probably some schools as well….but I bet you even Islamic kids would find more religious tolerance in Catholic schools than in the apparently god hating public schools.

The more I read these things, the more I am convinced no one of a right mind should be sending any kids to public schools

http://www.seattlearchdiocese.org/schools/SchoolResults.aspx?select=all

 

Just when

redpenny Wednesday, April 13th at 5:36AM EDT (link)

you think you’ve heard it all something comes along to “take the cake”as they say.These people must be blithering idiots or worse.Teaching your childern—I don’t think so–no way would have my childer stayed in that whacko setting.

Don’t bother: the moderators tossed me out on my racist posterior already.

 

We roll our eyes,

radicalrighty Wednesday, April 13th at 6:11AM EDT (link)

and shake our heads at these people. We retell these stories to our friends and they roll their eyes.

But these people are serious about destroying our culture, and they are at it 24/7, regardless if it makes them look idiotic to us.

That’s the scary part . . .

 

Goofy crap like this...

texasjohn Wednesday, April 13th at 8:30AM EDT (link)

…is why I want to disassociate myself from ever having lived there. I shouldn’t expect anything different from a place that has a state college that refuses to give students letter/number grades, but instead hands out “narrative evaluations”, and names their sports teams after giant ugly clams (“Geoducks”).

It is truly amazing to see how far from any kind of values this society is willing to wander in the name of political correctness. PC is a modern curse we live under. I can’t help but think of 1 Cor. 1:18 “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to those of us who are being saved, it is the power of God.” (NIV)

God help America.

1 Cor. 1:18 “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to those of us who are being saved, it is the power of God.” (NIV)

amen, brother. nt

4suramcan Wednesday, April 13th at 11:43AM EDT (link)
 
 

I would rather call it...

msjallen Wednesday, April 13th at 11:28AM EDT (link)

Resurrection Sunday.
Easter is a pagan holiday and eggs and bunnies have nothing to do with the resurrection of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ early that Sunday morning.
Yes, I am guilty of doing the whole Easter basket thing with my children and now my grandchildren but we taught them the real meaning of the His death, burial and resurrection. The same with Christmas and what it really means.

thank you

4suramcan Wednesday, April 13th at 11:42AM EDT (link)

Yes, Easter eggs are pagan and have NOTHING to do with what Easter is all about. Ironic isn’t it, that they are changing the name “easter egg’ to a sphere when neither one has anything to do with EASTER.

 
 

amen, brother. nt

4suramcan Wednesday, April 13th at 11:36AM EDT (link)
 

Eggs

Adrian Wednesday, April 13th at 11:48AM EDT (link)

aren’t spheres. But she’s a public school teacher so what more can you expect I guess.

 

The don't call it

lizaz Wednesday, April 13th at 12:18PM EDT (link)

the “left coast” for nothing. And these “teachers” are “teaching” our children. Hopefully the parents will straighten the kids out, but I wouldn’t count on it!!