Posted on 12/23/2005 7:45:33 PM PST by mcg1969
It's not this broads place to tell these children that. This is a family matter, far more than it's a school matter.
I agree, but this article has been posted at least 2 or 3 times here already so it's getting old. In fact, I wonder if it's a variation or a repeat of the same story the seems to creep up every Christmas season. I swear I've heard it before this year. I just can't remember where.
What a heartless woman! The Santa Claus story makes Christmas a little extra exciting for the kiddies. It's harmless fun. Parents also get a kick out of pretending Santa came to the house. The woman obviously cannot relate to children and should be in another line of work.
They were given beautifully wrapped boxes containing a Santa hat and a letter explaining that Santa WAS indeed real- he was the spirit of giving and wanting to make someone's Christmas magical and wonderful, and that spirit expressed itself in the form of Mom and Dad and Grandma and Grandpa and many other people. And now they were old enough to BE Santa for others too. There's one rule: they were not to tell any younger child about the Santa Society - it was up to their parents to know when the time was right.
As to the school system not having a "Santa policy", the policy of common sense should cover the subject. That is a policy, however, that is sorely missing in public schools across the nation.
It doesn't matter what the teacher believes...these are not her children..the parents have the right to teach their kids their beliefs without the teachers deciding that they know best!
As a music teacher it was her job to teach music, period. Anything else was overstepping her authority.
My relating of our telling the girls about Santa was directed toward parents who indulge in the practice of Santa Claus but then worry about "lying" to their kids, etc. We did the "Santa Thing" until the girls were nearly 11. We enlisted the help of our neighbors who had no children of their own to put our gifts out for us when we visited one of the grandparents. They loved doing it, and still played "Santa" even after they moved to a different community. The point of my story is that when the time comes for a child to leave the world of magic behind, that it need not disappoint.
I thought everyone knew there ain't no sanity clause.
There is no Santa Claus.
However, this is an old story. It being posted several times is meant to flame the flames so to speak. I have to wonder if it's a repeat or another version of the same old story. I swear I heard it last Christmas.
Thank goodness all I need is a good ol' Bible on my lap and a nice, warm blanket to get into the Christmas spirit.
I like your Santa system. I loved it when I was old enough to become a "Santa" to my younger siblings.
It's Hannity Clause, didn't you know?
Oh Thanks. Sorry.
Actually you seem like a very common sense person, something sorely lacking in the world nowadays.
I HAD to reply to you to THANK you. I don't have children of my own (haven't been able to for several years) so I REALLY appreciate you and your kids for doing something like leaving presents. I don't know if you have any idea what that means to someone, but I KNOW they really appreciate it a lot. That is the real "spirit" of Christmas, one where we forget all the politics and treat people nicely because it is "right" so to speak. You have taught your children the magic of Christmas and "Santa" and it will continue to live in their hearts for forever more I believe. That alone makes you a very worthy parent, actually deserving of some award I believe.
It's amazing how insensitive some people can be sometimes. Other options aren't available right now, but hopefully someday I can raise a child of my own. I will love that child like no other and will thank God every day for him/her when that day comes. Sometimes people say things like, "Why don't you want kids?" or "So you decided you didn't want any kids?" I have long ceased being offended, but have realized that many such comments are made in ignorance or innocence. People just don't realize what they're saying.
But then there are some on here who try the insult, "I see that you don't have any kids...." That loses credibility with me from the outset and that's all I will say on that.
All I will say is that if anyone has kids or family they're spending Christmas with, they better dang well be on their knees on Christmas Eve thanking God for that opportunity. If you have the privilege of raising kids, thank God for that opportunity too.
I thank God for all the blessings that he has given me and continues to give me, especially in my capacity as a teacher in serving those in my own neighborhood. I will always try to keep the Christmas "magic" going in my own classroom.
Heck, I was so bad I used to think that the airplanes at night were Rudolph:).
Have a merry Christmas and God bless you for your efforts.
Grinch!:)
It's not this broads place to tell these children that.
Say it again Sam.
Some folks just never learn
“The poem has great literary value, but it goes against my conscience to teach something which I know to be false to children, who are impressionable,” said Farrisi, 43, of Myerstown. “It’s a story. I taught it as a story. There’s no real person called Santa Claus living at the North Pole.”
What a drip! No imagination,and what seems like a sour disposition to boot. It wasn't her job to squash the happy Christmas dreams of first graders.
What makes you think I have ever learned anything?:) I'm of the species dum-dumicus.
One of my students came right up and gave me a dum-dums lollipop this week. She must have known what I wanted for Christmas.
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