Comments on: When Less Is Less: Universal Exclusion Versus Universal Inclusion http://www.progressivekid.com/reader/index.php/when-less-is-less-universal-exclusion-versus-universal-inclusion/ info., ideas, inspiration for raising your progressive kid Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:54:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: jen http://www.progressivekid.com/reader/index.php/when-less-is-less-universal-exclusion-versus-universal-inclusion/comment-page-1/#comment-2267 jen Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:30:44 +0000 http://www.progressivekid.com/reader/?p=662#comment-2267 Like this essay a lot Sarah! I appreciate your explicit discussion of the tendency to exclude rather than include. We are lucky, so far, with the kids school--they seem to try the inclusive route more often than the exclusive. Their current teachers are working to incorporate a variety of seasonal celebrations into the kids school day. Part of the problem across the board, though, is one of education--if people are too lazy/uninterested to educate themselves about the beliefs of others, whether they be atheist, agnostic or followers of a particular faith, they will find that other person's faith frightening. And of course, the Christmas tree is a pretty amazing symbol of the syncretic nature of current ritual practice (being as it is a pre-Christian component of the solstice adopted by Christians and made modern by the Victorians). Like this essay a lot Sarah! I appreciate your explicit discussion of the tendency to exclude rather than include. We are lucky, so far, with the kids school–they seem to try the inclusive route more often than the exclusive. Their current teachers are working to incorporate a variety of seasonal celebrations into the kids school day.

Part of the problem across the board, though, is one of education–if people are too lazy/uninterested to educate themselves about the beliefs of others, whether they be atheist, agnostic or followers of a particular faith, they will find that other person's faith frightening.

And of course, the Christmas tree is a pretty amazing symbol of the syncretic nature of current ritual practice (being as it is a pre-Christian component of the solstice adopted by Christians and made modern by the Victorians).

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