Friday, January 1, 2010

Happy Holid . . . I mean Merry Christmas

Over the years, out of deference to my Jewish students, and my occasional Hindu and Muslim students at the public school in Lake Zurich, I trained myself to refer to it as “Winter Break.”

Now that I teach in a Christian school, “Winter Break” seems a little unnecessarily vague. I’ve been trying to refer to it as Christmas break.

I haven’t always been successful.

A twenty-year habit is a hard one to break.

-Jack

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