{"id":612214,"date":"2026-04-18T10:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/612214\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T10:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:40:16","slug":"letter-surrey-schools-shouldnt-celebrate-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/612214\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Surrey schools shouldn\u2019t celebrate religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              LETTER: Surrey schools shouldn\u2019t celebrate religion<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 2:52 pm Friday, April 17, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Editor,<\/p>\n<p>There has many reply letters in the Peace Arch News to my original letter regarding religious events\/celebrations in public schools. Many clearly didn\u2019t comprehend what I wrote \u2013 and that is evident in the letter \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/peacearchnews.com\/2026\/03\/27\/letter-yes-religious-education-belongs-in-surrey-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Education<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/peacearchnews.com\/2026\/03\/27\/letter-yes-religious-education-belongs-in-surrey-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> leads to <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/peacearchnews.com\/2026\/03\/27\/letter-yes-religious-education-belongs-in-surrey-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">understanding<\/a>\u2019 (April 16 edition), which says \u201cSteven Feldman\u2019s letter states that no religion should be taught in schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is incorrect. I never wrote that at all. To be clear, <a href=\"https:\/\/peacearchnews.com\/2026\/03\/13\/letter-surrey-schools-shouldnt-recognize-any-religion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">my letter was in response <\/a>to the PAN reporting of religious celebrations taking place in Surrey public schools \u2013 it was not about educational classes on religion. And since that original letter we continue to see Surrey public schools hold select religious holiday events\/celebrations in public schools.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Feldman, Surrey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LETTER: Surrey schools shouldn\u2019t celebrate religion Published 2:52 pm Friday, April 17, 2026 Editor, There has many reply&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-612214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}