'Merry Christmas' school-lunch menus recalled
District prints replacements with 'Happy Holidays' at cost of $494
 
A Seattle-area school district recalled its December lunch menus for 23 elementary schools because they were printed with the greeting "Merry Christmas."
The Federal Way School District recycled 11,500 copies of the calendar-style menu and reprinted it with the greeting "Happy Holidays," The News Tribune of Tacoma, Wash., reported.

A spokeswoman for the district explained a new employee in the nutrition services department added the Christmas greeting by mistake.

Using "Merry Christmas" went against district practices because "it has a religious connotation for some people," said Diane Turner.

The "Merry Christmas" menus, which were not distributed, were replaced last month at a cost of $494, Turner told the Tacoma paper.

"Our objective is to provide information to the diversity of the people that we have in our district," she said. "We try to respect each individual's point of view."

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