Trying to call an Easter egg a “spring sphere” just didn’t make it for a class of third graders in a Seattle elementary school who recognized what it was and called it accordingly. However, the school system insisted that they be called ‘spring spheres.’ Ready for your spring sphere hunt?
Somehow in the silliness of political correctness, the kids turned out to be the level-headed ones and the adults were left with sphere on their faces.
According to KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson Show, a 16-year-old caller passed along her up-close-and-personal experience with political correctness in the Seattle public schools. The high school student decided to provide some Easter treats for a third grade class by filling plastic Easter eggs with candy and jelly beans as part of a community service project. When she approached the elementary school teacher with the idea, the teacher went to administration who approved it as long as the treats were called “spring spheres.”
Anyone with a grain of sense knows those goodies are called Easter eggs and, sure enough, the kids didn’t miss a beat. When presented with the eggs and told by the teacher, “Oh, look, spring spheres,” the kids’ eyes popped wide open as they exclaimed, “Wow, Easter eggs!”
The city’s parks department had already removed the word “Easter” from its planned egg hunts but it is a given that you will hear them called Easter eggs whether the grown-ups want to call them that or not.
Add this to the ever-growing list of redefined holidays in an increasing effort to remove any mention of religion from the public domain. What will they do to the Easter bunny? Insist he be called a spring hare who deposits spring spheres in spring baskets for Spring Sunday? Excuse me while I digest this latest political-correctness-run-amuk and dust off the Easter eggs for the church Easter egg hunt.
