How the PTA Stole Christmas: School Bans Red, Green and the Word “Christmas” from the “Winter Party”

Why is it that there’s always someone who wants to take a joyous occasion and make it difficult for others to indulge? A little town in Texas is currently in a battle to save Christmas for their children from others who seem determined to steal it.

Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot.
But the Grinch who lived just north of Whoville did not!
The Grinch hated Christmas, the whole Christmas season.
Please don’t ask why, no one quite knows the reason.

It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.
It could be his head wasn’t screwed on just right.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.

But whatever the reason, his heart or his shoes,
He stood there on Christmas Eve, hating the Who’s,
Staring down from his cave with a sour Grinchy frown,
At the warm lighted windows below in their town.

For he knew every Who down in Whoville beneath
Was busy, now, hanging a holly-who wreath.

~The Narrator, How the Grinch Stole Christmas

A parent-teacher association member in Frisco, Texas seems to have been taking lessons from the Grinch. Christmas has been stolen from the kids. This year, steps are being taken to strip the holiday from their campus, because, well, you know, they don’t want to offend anyone.

“The term ‘Grinchy’ shall apply when Christmas spirit is in short supply.”

~ Mayor Who, How the Grinch Stole Christmas

And Grinchy definitely applies here.

First of all, there is the name of the celebration at Gene and Ruby Nichols Elementary School. They aren’t having a “Christmas party”, you understand. Not even a “holiday gathering.” No, in their politically correct bubble, they are having a “winter party”.

“I must stop this *whole* thing! Why, for fifty-three years I’ve put up with it now. I must stop Christmas from coming… but how?”

~The Grinch, How the Grinch Stole Christmas

The organizers of this little get-together must have sat up late figuring out how to eradicate so much traditional Americana from the fete.

Then he got an idea. An awful idea. The Grinch got a wonderful, *awful* idea!

~The Narrator, How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Some person on the PTA had to have thought long and hard, and perhaps held little rituals to channel the big mean green fellow himself, in order to come up with these rules. KDFW News acquired the email sent out that establishes the other rules for the little secular get-together.  

The Winter Party Rules…

1) No reference to Christmas or any other religious holiday

2) No red/green or Christmas Trees

3) Nothing that will stain the carpet (red juice, dark colored icing, etc.)

Well, gee, that certainly sounds like quite a festive shindig, doesn’t it?

Can you imagine opening the email with this list, expecting to learn what kind of cookies you should be sending to the party, and then learning that Christmas would not be coming to Gene and Ruby Nichols Elementary School  that year?

“They’re finding out now that no Christmas is coming! They’re just waking up, I know just what they’ll do. Their mouths will hang open a minute or two, then the Whos down in Whoville will all cry, ‘Boo Hoo’.”

~The Grinch, How the Grinch Stole Christmas

An angry Christmas-loving parent sent the above list of anti-Christmas regulations to state Representative Pat Fallon, who says this list of rules is “political correctness gone too far.”

You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch

With a nauseous super-nauseous

You’re a crooked jerky jockey, and you drive a crooked hoss,

Mr. Gri-inch! Your soul is an appalling dump-heap, overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of rubbish imaginable, mangled up in tangled up knots!

~ Singer, How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Fallon looked deeper into the joyless winter extravaganza nd got conflicting stories from different venues related to the school.

“We’re celebrating Christmas, so why can’t it be a Christmas party or maybe a holiday party?” said Fallon. “But they’ve skipped over ‘holiday’ and go to ‘winter.’ That’s political correctness gone too far.”

Fallon says he called the superintendent, and was told the party rules were not a district policy.

Then he was told by the district’s PTA that kids could say “Merry Christmas.”

But then he got a second email from a PTA member. It was a message to other party organizers that read, “Today at the PTA meeting it was stated that they had decided to keep everything the same. She said they didn’t want to offend any families and since each family donates money they feel this is the best policy.”

“It’s my understanding that nothing has changed,” said Fallon. (source)

Of course, nothing urges change like the humiliation of bad press. The school district took action and emailed the local news station:

“The school was unaware of this and it was not an official PTA correspondence either. There have never been any limitations on what students wear, what they bring to share with their classmates on party days… what greetings people exchange with each other.

So, it appears that this year, Christmas may just be safe in Frisco, Texas. Children will wear red and green. “Merry Christmas” will be heard. Carols will be sung, after all.

He hadn’t stopped Christmas from coming!  It came!
Somehow or other, it came, just the same!
And the Grinch, with his Grinch feet ice-cold in the snow
Stood puzzling and puzzling.  “How could it be so?”

“It came without ribbons!  It came without tags!
It came without packages, boxes, or bags!”
He puzzled and puzzed…till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before!

“Maybe, Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store.
Maybe Christmas–perhaps–means a little bit more!”

“How the Grinch Stole Christmas” by Dr. Seuss

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