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A teacher at a in the USA has been allowed to keep her pink Hello Kitty Christmas tree in her . The teacher, Catherine Gordon, was ordered by the school Paul Butler to remove it from her classroom. Mr Butler decided it was an "" Christmas . He explained to ABC News that the tree did not fit with the the school celebrated the religious events happening at this of the year. He said: "A concern was shared with me an inconsistency with our balanced to holiday observances."

Ms Gordon said she didn’t think her tree was . She said it had no religious such as crosses or on it. Her story went viral on Facebook. Ms Gordon wrote that she thought was becoming too worried about people. She said she thought her with her tree was "definitely a point in our society when everything offends all the time". She added that: "It just sucks the joy out of everything." She told a newspaper that: "It just seems that in our to be tolerant of everything, we've become to everything."

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