“I, in no way, recommended that it stopped being sung by children,” Hamill told the Beacon. Kyna Hamill, the BU professor who wrote the report on the legendary Christmas song, says she’s “shocked” that the school banned the song and that doesn’t support what the school has done. Another administrator, Allison Rioux, Brighton Central School District assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, told the Beacon that “Jingle Bells” was banned because “some suggest that the use of collars on slaves with bells to send an alert that they were running away is connected to the origin of the song.”
Tappon and administrators point to a 2017 report by a Boston University professor that noted “Jingle Bells or, The One Horse Open Sleigh” was first performed in 1857 as part of a Boston minstrel show. Matt Tappon, the principal at Council Rock Elementary in Brighton, N.Y., a suburb of Rochester, told the Rochester Beacon that “Jingle Bells” and the other songs were being replaced by songs that wouldn’t have the “potential to be controversial or offensive.” The wokes have struck again and this time it’s at a New York elementary school where the administration decided it would ban “Jingle Bells” and several other songs that have a “questionable past” as determined by the administration.
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