If you want to take Easter away from religious people, you create Easter eggs and Easter bunnies and Rankin-Bass cartoons. But what if the very term 'Easter' is offensive to schools in progressive Seattle? Then you have to get another degree away and insist Easter eggs be termed 'spring spheres'.
A sophomore in high school, 'Jessica', volunteered in a third grade class. "At the end of the week I had an idea to fill little plastic eggs with treats and jelly beans and other candy, but I was kind of unsure how the teacher would feel about that," Jessica said. Why would she be concerned? Due to a meeting earlier in the week where she learned about "their abstract behavior rules."
The teacher was fine with the idea - whew - well, maybe. "She said that I could do it as long as I called this treat 'spring spheres.' I couldn't call them Easter eggs."
The kids didn't get the politically correct memo, though. They still called them Easter eggs. Maybe we need to provide some funding for spring sphere outreach.
