-PJ
Posted on 12/19/2009 9:12:00 PM PST by joesbucks
Found this on a web site I frequent.
No Santa Claus, eh?
Wait ‘til you find out they’re teaching them to put condoms on cucumbers.
If he’s old enough to question, he’s old enough to know.
Don’t be too upset. The truth is always the best. Plus his friends already told him.
Either this persons son rides the short bus to school, or this person is still riding it.
Other than this one issue, how is she as a teacher?
Because I’d hate to be in her place, and put into a situation like this.
Your choices are -
1. Refuse to answer the question. Which invites more questions.
2. Tell a lie (Santa is real) and then have to explain all the other lies that go along with it.
3. Tell the truth and risk the certain wrath of parents.
Kind of a ‘no-win’ situation, IMHO.
We did the same thing. Really ticked my niece off when my son told her daughter Santa wasn't real though, so I had to threaten my kids with having their presents taken away if they ruined believing in Santa for those kids whose parents did lie to them about it. LOL
She'd question me every Christmas about how Santa was able to get a large present into the house, how did he get it down the chimney when I had the glass doors closed on the fireplace, if he didn't come down the fireplace then how did he get a locked door open?
I eventually expected her to pull out a slide rule and prove to me mathematically why Santa did not and could not exist.
Anyway, don't get to upset about this. It's a good opportunity to discuss the real meaning of Christmas with your son.
-PJ
I personally wish that Santa would leave me a list of all the naughty people, they seem to have the best parties:)
Sorry, but by the time a student is in the 6th grade, he should know the truth about Santa Claus and the history behind the tradition. Saint Nickolas was a very good man and gave away, secretly, dowries to poor girls in his village. He should be emulated by Christians, just as Saint Nickolas emulated Christ.
I figured it out when I was 7 when my parents inadvertently left the price tag on one of the gifts in the stocking.
I went to my parents and asked, “Santa doesn’t charge for his gifts, does he?”
That’s when they decided to come clean.
“Teaching” about Santa Claus not being real is the reason there are minimum standards testing in some states.
Nah, he's just human. Most of us 'know' Santa doesn't exist, but the thought behind and of him, well, ....that's evident, each year, around this time.
Let kids be kids, they are forced to 'grow up' faster with each advance in technology and ideology.
Merry Christmas mmadi106999 (here's a "/s" for your stocking).
And if Santa knows who’s been naughty and who’s been nice, I’m sure the CIA would love to have a word with him.
-PJ
6th grade? C’mon, I’d be more worried if a 6th grade teacher was trying to pass Santa off as being real.
Believe me, it could have been worse, she could have said there was no such thing as Jesus. Now that really would be something to get upset about.
My house was on a hill, so we could see the roof and the chimney from the hill. I was eight when I saw the chimney in winter and wondered why they told me that Santa Clause could come down the chimney when it was obvious that I wouldn’t fit in there.
LOL.. I was annoying my mom about my brother trying to make me be bad so Santa wouldn’t come.. She blurted it out in anger. I in turn told the kids at school there was no Santa and they called me a liar. Ah.. the good old days.
That’s funny.
They might know. Its really not the teachers place. One of my neices teachers says Jesus ain’t real.
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