I can think of one other character in this holiday season that no American teacher dare suggest is largely fictionalâŚ
Oh, FFS, this is a firing offense???
Maybe the teacher actually said he isnât white.
Jesus, however, is real. And heâs the reason for the seasonâŚoh yeah the solstice which is also real, but mostly Jesus!
yes, because itâs important to lie to our children and keep them in the dark about Santa, the Easter Bunny and Elf on the shelf. These lies lead to more lies. When are we going to be truthful with kids and STOP lying to them??? And donât even get me started on the religious crap!!!
tRump probably grew up believing all of this and look how he turned out.
And I was going to suggest that âElmer Gantryâ be made required reading in High School.
First graders. No Santa. Really? What a dick.
Santa:
- Old, bearded guy lures children at the mall onto his lap.
- Modus operandi is breaking-and-entering.
- Eats your food in the middle of the night.
- Displaces American workers by importing tons of cheap Lapland junk.
- Unregulated workshops dump greenhouse gasses and other toxins into fragile Arctic environment.
- Keeps sweatshop elves â with no OSHA protections â from unionizing.
- Factory farms reindeer with zero animal-welfare certifications.
- âSees you when youâre sleepingâ???
Why isnât this guy in custody?
The teacher was a substitute, so if the system there works like it has at my kidsâ schools, the sub wasnât so much âfiredâ as wonât be subbing for that district anymore (theyâre free to sub in another district and thereâs no official âmarkâ against them so to speak). None of the people who sub where I am depend on it as a fulltime job, itâs something work at home parents do to make pocket money, and different schools actually handle subbing differently (some just make teachers use breaks to supervise kids). But I understand that whatâs the norm where I am isnât the norm elsewhere.
HoweverâŚvery frankly, given the subâs poor judgement (are you shocked that the first gradersâ parents reacted the way they did???), Iâd hesitate to have them in my school as well.
Well as a substitute it probably isnât âfiringâ as they are often just called to fill in and are not actually employees. She just wonât be called anymore. Still quite a lame reason. I love telling small children that Santa is a lie. I am not sure why religious people cling to him. He is a terrible distortion of religious ideas. I personally find him offensive.
Well, actually I am kind of surprised that parents of 6-yr-olds expect to carry this fiction on perpetually â what exactly is the ârightâ age to tell kids theyâve been âfibbedâ to for years? (Or are these parents afraid that other mythical things like arks and dinosaurs for Jesus and stuff will also get debunked if they send their kids to school?)
Another too too funny one!
I giggled at âlap-landâ âŚ
I think itâs mean as shit to do that to a bunch of 6 year olds and a teacher has no business doing that. Thatâs for parents.
Actually, I am really kind of surprised that at least one of those kids hadnât already spread the word to the others by that age.
Telling other peopleâs kids that Santa isnât real is a real dick move. Itâs none of your business.
As I recall, they do but that doesnât mean you believe them.
My dad sold building supplies. One year he built me a playhouse at the warehouse for Christmas. He had brought in on one his flatbed trucks on Christmas Eve - Mom took me somewhere. They kept the curtains closed and kept me out of the backyard and we had a once in a lifetime in Dallas white Christmas - it dusted overnight. They opened the curtains on Christmas morning and there was my playhouse and I was convinced Santa brought it.
Every single kid in the neighborhood saw it come in on the truck and told me so but I didnât care. Santa brought it. By the next year I was over it, but that kind of magic meant a lot to me when I was still little.
This is small potatoes compared to the crap we heard from our teachers every day in Hebrew school.