Grinchy remark sends kids home in tears

[Iolaus]

http://www.ldnews.com/fastsearchresults/ci_3334327

Can you believe this teacher? If the kids were older, I can see the substitute teacher clarifying where the Santa story came from, but 6 and 7 year olds? ...I hope she gets blackballed in that district; she doesn't belong anywhere near kids that young, she doesn't have the common sense God gave a two year old!

[John M.]

Heard this story a day or two ago.
Have to say I feel the same way you do.

[Big Dave]

The teacher seems to be upset by something that probably happened to her when she was a kid. Maybe 'her' parents lied about Santa, and now she sees' this as her job to right the wrongs of parents, by telling their kids the truth about Santa. Who cares if kids believe in Santa, they eventualy learn later on in life that it is just a story, but a nice on at that. I don't believe in Santa, and my kids know that we (the parents) bring them gifts, not him, but that's the way I was brought up and thats how I'm bringing up my kids. But there is 'no way' I would ever tell a kid(s) who believes in Santa, that he's not real. That's for them and their parents to deal with, not some pissed off person who dossn't understand what it's like to be a kid. But that's my opinion.

[Shay]

If you're curious, the teacher later wrote the paper a letter:

http://www.ldnews.com/fastsearchresults/ci_3334340

I think she sounds a bit looney, but no worse than a lot of folks around the holidays. And she has a point in that maybe the public schools shouldn't be having lessons about Santa as through he is a real person. She seems pretty religious herself, so I would guess she knows it when she sees it- she asks if we're going to teach about Sanata, why not teach about Jesus as well?

[Livingston]

If you're curious, the teacher later wrote the paper a letter:

http://www.ldnews.com/fastsearchresults/ci_3334340

I think she sounds a bit looney, but no worse than a lot of folks around the holidays. And she has a point in that maybe the public schools shouldn't be having lessons about Santa as through he is a real person. She seems pretty religious herself, so I would guess she knows it when she sees it- she asks if we're going to teach about Sanata, why not teach about Jesus as well?

That sounds like a good idea. Jesus was also an historical person so it only makes sense to teach about Him.

[bubba]

Farisi is just one more in a long line of cretins that take great delight in sucking the joy and magic out of life and replacing it with broken dreams and a grey uniformity. And if we're going to fall back into religion teach about Mithra too. After all, December 25th was his day long before Chrisianity. Some people are pagans y'know.

[Livingston]

@#%*^&*%^$**)($^&%!%!$*(^

Now that that's out. Why has no one in the last 55 years told ME that Santa died!?! I hope neither of my sisters or my parents hear about that. We ALL believe there is a Santa....and he's part of each and every one of us helping to spread happiness and joy at this time of year.

On another note.....Moore did not write it, he claimed it was his. It does not match the style of anything he ever wrote. It was written 15 years earlier by Major Henry Livingston Jr.

http://www.iment.com/maida/familytree/henry/summary.htm

[GlassMan]

Okay, I just read the teachers letter in the paper, and I guess I was wrong. It is about parenting and also about an uptight, overly-zealous, grumpy, nasty, mean old women intent on pushing her personal beliefs on everyone around her.

It reminds me of my sophomore year in high school. In my English class near the end of the first semester we were all supposed to do an independent research project and then give a persuasive oral presentation on the topic to the class. The goal was to teach us that we write one way when we are preparing a written presentation but in a different manner when we are engaging in oratory. (In an aside, I wish that more children had the good fortune of being blessed with extremely competent teachers who go far beyond the minimum requirements!)

Anyway, one of my classmates decided that she would do her presentation on why it was impossible for Christ to have been born on Christmas. She brought up how it was originally a Pagan festival for Mithras, and how the winter solstice festival was also common among many other European societies. Then she tried to claim that because Isreal is at the same latitude as DC that it would have been cold and snowy at the time so there would be no shepherds out with their flocks (remember, we were in South Texas where the far side of the planet Mercury is considered cooler than our own climate). And of course, she then went on to attack the nature of the modern Christmas celebrations and ended it with a statement of her religious beliefs that there was no Christ, was no Christmas, and that we were all damned for not being true believers in the One True God. (I omit her religion but I think you can figure it out).

Our instructor told her that her topic was innapropriate since our assignment specifically told us to stay away from topics that were too controversial, and that she had also failed to do proper research. For example, because of the Mediteranean and the North Atlantic Current, European and Middle Eastern lattitudes are much warmer than their North American counterparts. I.E. It never snows in Isreal unless an industrial snow maker is employed.

But she felt that it was her mission to convert the Christians, Jews & everyone else. She defiantly stated that it was her faith that was important and that she didn't care what grade she recieved.

People like that will never be reasonable or pay attention to the needs of others.

Oh wait a second, I just realized, it all does go back to parenting. If either my classmate's or that teacher's parents hadn't been narrow-minded fools with poor parenting skills they would have raised such thoughtless children.

[NewKilt]

Message from God to Theresa Farrisi.

My dear Thresa,

Please lighten up a little bit. After all, they are just children. So, let them be children. Santa is in the hearts of everyone I created - even you. Have you forgotten?


Darrell