Don't call them Easter eggs, volunteer told, call them 'spring spheres'
Jenni Dunning - Toronto Star
Tuesday, April 19 2011
Jenni Dunning - Toronto Star
Tuesday, April 19 2011
It’s almost time for that annual springtime ritual — the spring sphere hunt! Or, to most people, the Easter egg hunt.
A teenager volunteering at a Seattle elementary school was apparently told to use the politically correct name “spring spheres” when she tried giving kids plastic Easter eggs filled with candy.
But a Seattle school board spokesperson told the Star it has not been able to confirm whether the incident actually happened.
“They said I could do it as long as I called the treats ‘spring spheres.’ I couldn’t call them Easter eggs,” a 16-year-old named Jessica told a Seattle radio station.
She declined to give her last name and the name of the school where the incident happened on the air.
“I thought it was ridiculous, it was just so silly,” she said. “But I wanted something to give to the kids, so I was going to roll with it.”
What did the kids think? They just called them Easter eggs anyway, she said.
The teen called the phrase part of the school’s “abstract behaviour rules.”
A teenager volunteering at a Seattle elementary school was apparently told to use the politically correct name “spring spheres” when she tried giving kids plastic Easter eggs filled with candy.
But a Seattle school board spokesperson told the Star it has not been able to confirm whether the incident actually happened.
“They said I could do it as long as I called the treats ‘spring spheres.’ I couldn’t call them Easter eggs,” a 16-year-old named Jessica told a Seattle radio station.
She declined to give her last name and the name of the school where the incident happened on the air.
“I thought it was ridiculous, it was just so silly,” she said. “But I wanted something to give to the kids, so I was going to roll with it.”
What did the kids think? They just called them Easter eggs anyway, she said.
The teen called the phrase part of the school’s “abstract behaviour rules.”
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