Bramley said the challenge was to make students consider the way in which society celebrates Christmas and think about the social problems that arise around this time: “Students were asked to challenge the status quo; to ask ‘why should we do things just because we have always done them?’ and … to question whether non-religious people should celebrate a religious festival.”
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He added: “With over 500 emails and letters making a strong case for its retention, Lady Lumley’s has decided to keep Christmas in 2018.”
The school confirmed that the fairy lights and Christmas tree would appear once again at Lady Lumley’s. It remains to be seen whether they get a visit from Santa.
A school that threatened to ban Christmas has been persuaded to reinstate it after receiving hundreds of “thoughtful” letters and emails from pupils. Lady Lumley’s school in Pickering, North Yorkshire, cast itself as a modern-day Ebenezer Scrooge when it told pupils that the true meaning of Christmas had been “buried under an avalanche of commercialisation”.
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