A primary school headteacher has been branded a “grinch” after banning pupils from sending Christmas cards.
Jonathan Mason, head of Belton Lane Primary School in Grantham, Lincolnshire, said the tradition was bad for the environment.
However, parents said the move is not in the Christmas spirit and accused Mr. Mason of “rank hypocrisy” after he reportedly announced the ban in a letter to all parents.
In the letter, he wrote: “I have been approached by a number of children recently who are concerned about the impact of sending Christmas cards on the environment.
“Throughout the world, we send enough Christmas cards that if we placed them alongside each other, they’d cover the world’s circumference 500 times.
“The manufacture of Christmas cards is contributing to our ever-growing carbon emissions.
“So in order to be environmentally friendly in school, we will not be having a post box for Christmas cards from this year onwards.
“Instead, can we encourage you to save money and the environment by not sending cards to all of the children in a class individually but instead, if you want to send a card please send one card to the whole class.
“Teachers can then display the cards in the classroom for everyone to see.”
One parent, who did not want to be named, told the Daily Mail: “I know quite a few parents who are upset about this.
“Why should children have the joy taken out of Christmas? Why can’t all these cards be recycled anyway? And I buy a lot of Christmas cards for charity.
“Where is all the Christmas spirit in this?
“I know we have to protect the environment, but these are a few Christmas cards once a year and to be told about this on a piece of paper seems contradictory.”
Another added: “Telling people to stop sending cards in a letter sent out to hundreds of kids stinks of rank hypocrisy.
“I hope parents boycott these Grinch-like plans and keep this tradition alive by sending lots of cards to their little pals.
“They are mostly recyclable anyway. I agree that environmental issues are important but I don’t see recyclable Christmas cards as a massive contributor to these problems.”
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School kids banded from sending Christmas cards but handed a $trillion dollars
in new debt every year that they didn’t even get to vote on .
Debt slaves will be broke so they better hope their global warming fantasy
comes true .
And those government employees that occupy 75% of cruise ships
better keep the kids stupid so they get their indexed pensions .
500 times around the world?? 500? idiots like this are allowed to teach little kids and pollute their minds? The local grocer is looking for retards to sweep floors and the Liberal Party of Canada is in the market for another substitute Prime Minister. Someone as brain dead as the current one, if that is possible.
This is a bit off topic for this article but not this website. The COP meetings are the big once a year UN global warming/climate change/climate emergency/climate who knows what meeting. This is where nations get together and try to solve the non-existent problem. I have been following this issue closely for 17 years. The current COP meeting has one week finished and one to go. This year is typical in that normally very little information comes out in the middle of the conference. From what I have been able to find there appears to be little progress. One area of dispute in how long should Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) be good for. These are the commitments that a nation makes to reduce emissions under the Paris Treaty. This seems odd to me. In addition to the COP meetings there are other conferences where nations can redefine their NDC. That expectation is they would do so for less emissions, but there is nothing in the treating preventing them from redefining the goals for more emissions. Another disappointment so far for the conference is no nation has committed to a NDC for fewer emissions
The world population is so huge that in absolute numbers anything is quite large. Consider toothpicks. At its peak just one town, Strong Pennsylvania, made 75 billion toothpicks a year. If climate change were a real problem, what would count would be the percentage of emission impact. Without having the exact numbers, it is safe to assume that the percentage impact from one once a year Christmas Card use is pretty low.
There are some people who don’t like Christmas traditions which the card is part of. Some of these people are atheists and can’t stand anything based on religion. At the opposite end of the spectrum are those who are very religious and don’t like Christmas traditions because they distract from the religious meaning. The vast majority of these people are content to limit their views to themselves and their families. However, we are living in a time of elitism. This is where people think that they are absolute right and it is their duty to enforce their views on everyone else. I suspect this is behind that school’s Christmas Card ban. As with so many issues, the ban is hitchhiking on the climate change movement because it lacks its own merit.
Off subject but thought you should know, Climate Change Dispatch has a mention in the Ontario Legislature in an article headed ” Killing Power Deals can be a necessary nuisance” by Randal Denley in the National Post; Quote
“Lacking support from either logic or arithmetic, the opposition parties saw their opportunity to grab headlines when Rickford made reference in the legislature to Germany, another jurisdiction with enormous enthusiasm for wind power. As Rickford noted, wind power in Germany has been heavily subsidized, but is now facing increased public resistance. The blowback has stalled Germany’s emissions reduction plan.
This is not a popular storyline with those who think costly government policies can fix the emissions problem, but the facts are not in dispute. The information could have been gleaned from recent articles from the Financial Times or PBS, but Rickford referred to an online source called Climate Change Dispatch. There was nothing novel in the website’s article, which was a summary of a piece in Focus, a leading German news magazine.
The thing with CLIMATE CHANGE DISPATCH (my capitals) is that the site does not unquestioningly accept the current climate change consensus and says “global warning alarmists have embraced climate change as a religion and not as a scientific endeavour.”
As if to prove the point, opposition leaders essentially accused Rickford of heresy for even glancing at such material. NDP leader Andrea Horwath said Rickford’s reference was “shocking,” and showed that the PCS were lined up with climate change deniers. Not to be outdone, Green leader Mike Schreiner said Rickford’s choice of reading material was “incredibly reckless and irresponsible.”
In his own defence, Rickford argued that he has long made a habit of testing his own ideas by studying the views of those who differ. If that’s a flaw, it’s certainly not one shared by his political opponents, whose unquestioning endorsement of anything green is the kind of thinking that got Ontario into its power mess.”
Go check it out …… You are gaining traction….. keep up the good work…. 🙂
There was a time when it was considered cool to be subversive.
What’s happened to us?
It’s cool to conform? Donate your spine to society before you’re done with it?
To think this idiot is a head teacher…
God help us.
Just because Mr. Mason is a dope
doesn’t mean that everyone else
must a dope as well
most especially his young charges
who should not be required to
grow up as DOPES !
Mr. Mason should stick to education
if he knows how and
stay out of political indoctrination and
abandon cultish brain-washing.
Now you know why the Grinch was Green these Global Warming/Climate Change screwballs banning Christmas Ccards all ob ver this Global Warming/Climate Change nonsense just how stupid can they ever get? Maybe its the school officials who need to go back to school and learn some facts