Time we Christians tell Jews, Moslems, Hindus, Buddhists, that this IS a Christian nation and if you don’t like it there is North Korea.
I bet you all the Asian parents in this school hate her. San Jose is 65% Asian and they all love Christmas.
I disagree with this mom, but had the school taken these kids to a septic....er....mosque, what would we have said?
Let me guess, this mother probably though would not object to observing Muslim holidays?
Tyranny of the one!
What happened to letting the minority either stay home, go to study hall, or havng their own parties?
Don’t let your kid go. End of problem. Stupid of the school to drop the trip.
Why can’t they just tell her: “No problem. Please pick up your child at 9:00AM while the rest of us make the trip.”
As a Jew, I am embarrassed by this kind of Jew, who is, of course, a liberal above and beyond any Jewish considerations. Some will be surprised to know that Orthodox Judaism specifically teaches the opposite of what she did: we are supposed to be respectful and peaceful towards people of other faiths. Of course, there were, in the past biblical exceptions when those people persecuted us (eg: Chanuka, Purim stories).
Santa Field Trip? to the North Pole? Better take along a warm sweater.......................
There are a lot of places in California that this woman finds offensive. Santa Ana, Santa Barbara, Santa Ysabel, Santa Monica. Maybe she should pack her crap and get out.
Some people are not happy until everyone else is miserable. She could have simply kept her child home that day but no, she had to ruin it for everyone else.
The perennial whininess problem, and probably she’s generally nonreligious.
A more astute Jewish mother would have Santa Claus being asked for things like a relief from the assault of jihadism on Israel. The Christian religion doesn’t require a Santa Claus and it’s not prescribed in the bible. It’s a later adoption, mostly as a morality story, and usually Jewish people are copacetic with Christian morality.
You started it, biotch.
Suck it up!
Santa Claus is not real.
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It’s idiotic to let one parent ruin this for everyone (keep your kid home next time, lady). But, I have to ask - what is the educational purpose of a field trip to go see some mall Santa?
Sounds to me like this woman is just selfish.
She deserves it. She asked for it.