By Ken Dalecki
My wife is a true conservationist. She tries to find a use for everything. She saves bottle caps, egg crates and other odd items which for years she has given to an appreciative art teacher at a nearby Montgomery County public elementary school. Last week stuff she went to the school to donate included the front covers of old Christmas cards with Currier & Ives scenes, winter landscapes, deer in the snow, etc.
It was late afternoon and the art teacher had left the school, so my wife asked to leave the odds and ends and the cards with a receptionist. "We don't celebrate holidays," the receptionist informed her, taking the odds and ends but rejecting the cards. "We celebrate seasons."
My wife wasn't about to argue or point out that most, if not all of the cards could be viewed as secular examples of art and depictions of the "winter" season. Gosh (not God) forbid that a pupil in a Montgomery County public school might in any way be exposed to Christmas.
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Ken Dalecki is a member of the Executive Committee for Legislative District 20.