Cultural Battleground: A School’s “Christmas Concert”

On Monday night in a Long Island town bordering Queens, “more than 250 people showed up to demand that the name of the annual Christmas Concert not be changed to Winter Concert. … The small school district is one of the few in the New York region that continues to call its December program the Christmas Concert. Almost all the others have switched to the term holiday or winter concert, both to avoid seeming to exclude non-Christian families and to move toward the ideal of a level cultural playing field for pupils of every possible background.”