In my last blog post, I criticized the Bridgewater-Raritan Board of Education and its Administration for placing on its agenda the first presentation of the 2011/2012 school budget during Christmas week.
I wrote that this is inappropriate because the timing is squarely “in the heart of the last week of the Advent Season,” and is much too close to Christmas Eve, “a night when many Christians choose to begin the official celebration of one of the two most holy days in all of Christendom.”
I wrote that this is inappropriate because the timing is squarely “in the heart of the last week of the Advent Season,” and is much too close to Christmas Eve, “a night when many Christians choose to begin the official celebration of one of the two most holy days in all of Christendom.”
Any lingering doubts that I may have had about reproaching elected school officials for that ill-timed agenda item were completely dispelled this morning when I read the following account in The Wall Street Journal, that U.S. Senator and Republican Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona called to account Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for loading up the Senate agenda at the last minute:
“The year-end tensions erupted after Mr. Kyl criticized Democrats’ attempts to pass several bills as Christmas approaches. He said Mr. Reid was “disrespecting one of the two holiest of holidays for Christians.”
Amen to that. I am encouraged to have discovered these sentiments also being expressed in the nation’s Capitol building.
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