Yarmouth Elementary School (YES) Principal Ryan Gleason announced Thursday in a letter to families that instead of celebrating Valentine’s Day on Feb. 14, the school will be having a “Friendship Day Celebration.”
In his letter, Gleason explains that YES has been reflecting on “the celebration of holidays through an inclusionary lens.”
“As a result of our reflection and research, this year Valentine’s Day will be celebrated at YES on February 14th as ‘Friendship Day,'” Gleason wrote. “As part of that celebration, we wanted to let you know well in advance that you do not need to send any items to school for this day.”
Gleason told families that if students come to school with Valentine’s cards, candy, or toys, the school will have the students place those items in their bags to bring back home.
The “Friendship Day” celebrations will include “making cards for each other or an activity that connects the class,” the principal said.
“The focus for students is on friendship and recognizing other classmates in our community,” he added.
YES previously celebrated the last day of school before Christmas vacation as “Comfy Clothes Day,” while school staff concurrently participated in a “Festive Holiday Sweater” day.
Halloween at YES was also celebrated as a “Comfy Clothes Day,” and Gleason asked students not to wear costumes to school.
Read Principal Ryan Gleason‘s letter to YES families regarding the “Friendship Day” celebration below:
Add a Drag Show to it and we are home.
Pass out that book, banned in FL schools, showing boys giving each other head and the Democrats will be happy.
Democrats are groomer perverts.
Mainers, your once great state is most definitely, right under your noses, been pulled way down the s**t hole. If you voted for a democrat, you voted for a MARXIST. Nothing is sacred anymore! They removed the SAINT out of St. Valentine’s Day, removing the Christian root, flattened it to plain old Valentine’s Day. Then, the Marxists chisled a bit more and more over the years and you hardly noticed, until it was gone, decimated, transformed into something completely new…Friendship Day and I’m not talking about Friendship, Maine Day.
The Marxist you voted for has completely transformed your Country, too, right under your noses…all because you voted for a democrat. Who’s to blame????
The last vestige of American Independence was crushed on January 6th. No one wants to fight anymore. No one wants to put their comfy lives on the line. We are a conquered people. We have no say in the kind of future we will live in. There’s lots of finger pointing to go around, but it doesn’t matter. It’s over, folks. They are just cleaning up the little bits of America they didn’t have the time for until now. Don’t kid yourselves, you have no power, you have no say. You, and I, are slaves to our owners. The global oligarchy.
Rose’s are red
Violet’s are blue,
The Republic is dead,
Watcha gonna do?
Bit by bit, day by day, we seize your children’s hearts away. Erosion of the holidays is our Marxist’s play.
Who controls the past controls the future.
Get your kids and grandkids out of the public indoctrination camps as fast as you can!
I don’t mind having a Friendship Day in which children can be taught at a young age to include and accept all their classmates. Trying to remember that teaching this willingness to be open to friendship is an important skill for your entire life. And de-escalating the “sweet thing” at school isn’t a bad thing for anyone’s sake. However, celebrating Christmas as a “comfy clothes dayl” is beyond ridiculous…how much more comfy can school attire get when students already show up on pjs and daisy dukes. Further, if schools want to have a “Christmas vacation”, then I really think you have to acknowledge and celebrate Christmas. We were founded as a Christian country and our strength has been acknowledging and teaching values to our children, friendship and love being right up there at the top.
Isn’t “Friendship Day” every day? These people are literally stupid.
Here’s one for you…change Martin Luther King Day to National Victims Day.
Appears to me Principal Ryan Gleason is a tad on the feminine side.
Please every parent take a permanent marker and write Happy Valentines day on an old tee shirt and send your kids to school. Make them put up.
Mainers are “sick” people. You are all a bunch of really gross groomers. I wouldn’t let anyone in Maine babysit my kids, that’s for sure. Also, I wouldn’t trust any teacher in Maine to teach my kids either.
The whole country is laughing at Maine. Your a bunch of lab rats being experimented on, and you can’t do anything about it. Your just taking it deep. Taking it really deep. I hope it feels good. It’s only going to get deeper so unbuckle your belts and just enjoy the pounding.
I’m so happy to hear that Maine is falling apart. I’m so happy to hear that Maine is all democrats now, less democrats in my state, they all moved to Maine. Now I live in a mostly Republican state!!! We have freedom here. There is no grooming of our children here.
Ya know, there is no such thing as a real Mainer in Maine anymore. Real Mainers would have done something about this, but it seems as though all the real Mainers have tucked thier tiny little peepees between thier legs, packed up thier ll bean shwag and run off like scared dogs. Hahaha
What happened to Maine??? USA is laughing at you, yes, YOU.
Chow
Isn’t Yarmouth the town that pushed the red heart lawn signs? And any family that didn’t post one was publicly ridiculed?
Now this insanity of taking away another happy memory of childhood? Wake up, people! Use your voices to stop this principal!
The Marist left are taking away our holidays bit by bit and we are allowing this to happen.
Weeklings!
The comments are the best part of the whole article! Another childhood right of passage snatched away by wokeism and fear. The battle isn’t flesh and blood, people. Pray for this sick state of Maine and our country.