Dear Editor:
Recently, we had the joy of seeing our grandchildren perform in their school Christmas concerts.
They did a good job and hats off to the teachers who managed to get each class performing so well. However, we were left with the question: Is it necessary to avoid the true meaning of Christmas at all costs? As Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ (now AD 2017) it seems amazing that this is not even mentioned at any of the concerts.
If it’s not acceptable to say what Christmas really is, why call it a Christmas concert? It could be a “year-end concert” and then the kids could do some other performances – not always songs about Santa and reindeer, which they should have outgrown by Grade 2.
Christmas is a wonderful time of the year for the very reason that Jesus Christ was born. If that cannot be said, it should not be replaced with unrelated trivia and still be called Christmas.
Tony and Pat Schmidt, Burnaby
