BETSY LAYNE – A bus driver at Betsy Layne Elementary handed out a letter to students Tuesday during her daily route asking that parents not send her Christmas gifts or cards that has some people in the community scratching their heads.
The bus driver, Deanna “DeeDee” Boyd, addressed the letter to the children’s parents.
“I appreciate all of your kind thoughts this year but I am making a request that you do not send me Christmas cards or gifts,” Boyd’s letter begins. “I do not celebrate Christmas because I have research (sic) the beginnings of the holiday & it has false teachings & lies associated with it.”
Boyd goes on in the letter to specifically outline what she says are “just a few reasons” she doesn’t celebrate Christmas.
“I definitely believe in Jesus but He never said to celebrate his birthday nor did he ever celebrate it,” Boyd writes, adding that only two birthdays were celebrated in the Bible. “Someone on each of those birthdays lost their head, one being the very important John the Baptizer. Do you think God was trying to tell us something here?”
Asked Thursday morning, officials with Betsy Layne Elementary said they were not aware of the letter and, likewise, the Floyd County Board of Education had not been made aware of the letter, with officials there reading it for the first time Thursday.
“We are completing an inquiry into the matter and will have additional comments when it is finished,” Floyd County Supt. Henry Webb said in a statement Thursday. “These actions are inappropriate and do not represent the Floyd County Board of Education or its employees.”
In her letter, a full page of single-spaced text, Boyd spends much of her time offering examples complete with references to exact scripture as to how “the Christmas story as we know it today does not match what the Bible teaches.”
In the last section, Boyd begins by posing a questions to the families to which it was addressed.
“Also, Do you know how serious lying is to God?” she asks, following this question with several examples of scripture from sections of the Bible such as John, Leviticus, Psalms and Revelations. Among these quoted scriptures were passages such as “Satan is the father of a lie,” and “God will destroy those speaking a lie.”
In his statement, Webb also asked “families to not let this incident disrupt their holidays.”
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We must study to know what came from God and what came from man.
"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." (2 Timothy 2:15)
We will all be judged by His Word someday.
"He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him—the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day." (John 12:48)
With Love,
~Billie
~Billie