The grade-school Santa Play is dead
I think I've known it for a while now... The grade-school holiday play is dead. I don't mean the Luke 2 play. Only Private schools do that, and public schools have had people shouting about it for more than half a century. I mean the pseudo-denominational plays that are Christmas plays. When I was in 2nd grade, I played "Tony the Pizza Man" in a play that featured Santa. Santa had apparently been a little too Jolly and had fattened up enough to the point where Mrs. Claus had signed him up for fat camp or something like that. I was Santa's secret way to get pizza.
The Santa play, is truly gone though. Private Schools, as I mentioned, are busy trying to remind us that we should be celebrating Christ's birth. They don't have time to do a play about an increasingly secular figure. Public schools are busy trying to not offend anyone with any activity they do, so they're not gonna help. Churches, the other major social contributor, declared their side long ago.
The Santa play is lost in the mix. I feel a little sad. My kids will probably never get to participate in such a play. The opportunity just isn't there. As you grow up, the world changes and you look back nostalgically, probably remembering it better than it was. I guess all I can say is "I don't know what's goin' on here, but somebody needs to pay for 15 pizzas."
The Santa play, is truly gone though. Private Schools, as I mentioned, are busy trying to remind us that we should be celebrating Christ's birth. They don't have time to do a play about an increasingly secular figure. Public schools are busy trying to not offend anyone with any activity they do, so they're not gonna help. Churches, the other major social contributor, declared their side long ago.
The Santa play is lost in the mix. I feel a little sad. My kids will probably never get to participate in such a play. The opportunity just isn't there. As you grow up, the world changes and you look back nostalgically, probably remembering it better than it was. I guess all I can say is "I don't know what's goin' on here, but somebody needs to pay for 15 pizzas."