英国校长禁止学校发放圣诞贺卡

The principal of an elementary school in England has banned students from sending Christmas cards to fellow students — claiming the festive tradition is bad for the planet.

英国一所小学的校长禁止学生向同学寄送圣诞贺卡，称这一节日传统对地球有害。

Jonathan Mason, of Belton Lane Primary School in Lincolnshire, claimed in a letter to parents that many students approached him with concerns “about the impact of sending Christmas cards on the environment.”

林肯郡贝尔顿巷小学的乔纳森·梅森在一封致家长的信中称，许多学生向他表达了对“寄送圣诞贺卡对环境的影响”的担忧。

“Throughout the world, we send enough Christmas cards that if we placed them alongside each other, they’d cover the world’s circumference 500 times,” Mason wrote, according to Sky News. “The manufacture of Christmas cards is contributing to our ever-growing carbon emissions.”

据天空新闻报道，梅森写道:“在全世界范围内，我们发送的圣诞贺卡足够多，如果我们把它们放在一起，它们可以环绕地球500圈。”“圣诞卡的制造正在加剧我们日益增长的碳排放。”

The head of the school continued, saying that “in order to be environmentally friendly in school we will not be having a post box for Christmas cards from this year onwards.”

学校校长继续说:“为求学校更环保，由今年起，我们将不会再有邮筒装圣诞贺卡。”

Mason suggested to parents who want to send a card to “send one card to the whole class” instead of individual ones, in an effort to “save money and the environment.”

梅森建议那些想要寄贺卡的家长“给全班同学寄一张”，而不是单独寄一张，这样可以“既省钱又环保”。

Belton Lane Primary School has 279 students ages 4 to 11, according to Ofsted, a department of the United Kingdom’s government that inspects educational institutions.

根据英国教育标准局(Ofsted)的数据，贝尔顿巷小学(Belton Lane Primary School)有279名4至11岁的学生。