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BY KIM ST. ONGE

In Michigan-- a teacher is accused of going Scrooge on a popular Christmas carol. Check out this video from WPBN.

“It’s the song you might hear in many music rooms across the country. We all know the words, but one teacher decided to take the word gay out of the lyrics.”

The elementary school teacher changed the lyrics to Deck the Halls from “don we now our gay apparel” to “don we now our bright apparel.” The teacher says she made the switch after her students couldn’t stop laughing over the word.

A writer for the gay blog Unicorn Booty says-- oh come on.

“Seriously, this is just such a dumb thing to have happen. Was it too hard to tell the kids that “gay” meant “merry, showy or festive?” Rather, let’s instead go change something that’s existed for hundreds of years.”

And one parents sarcastically says-- why stop there? Check out their comment from the school’s Facebook page:

"I for one support this decision, and additionally express my concern at other salacious lyrics involving homonyms the teacher may have overlooked. For instance, geeses ‘laying,’ Santa ‘coming’ and finding out who is ‘naughty,’ and of course any instance of the word ‘do’ or ‘did.’"

According to a video on HLN- the school admits the teacher’s lyric swap wasn’t the best way to handle the situation. The school’s principal says the ordeal is a quote “teachable moment”.

Cherry Knoll Elementary Principal: “We have an anti-bullying policy that includes sexual orientation, so going forward, the teacher will be addressing this is how we're supposed to be reacting, this is the way to be respectful about this.”

The kids are now back to singing the original version of the Christmas carol.