Occasionally in the crustier fringes of the reformed world you'll encounter annoying debates about whether or not to celebrate Christmas. Scripture doesn't explicitly endorse the commemoration of Christ's birth, after all, and besides we have no way of knowing exactly when his birth was and marking it on December 25 is at least somewhat arbitrary.
This is, as I said, an annoying conversation and one I'm not terribly interested in having. What is more interesting is one of the arguments that arises when this conversation takes a less annoying turn: If budgets are moral documents, as some have said, then so too are calendars educational documents.
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