Posted on 12/01/2018 6:47:24 PM PST by simpson96
She doesn’t just deserve a lump of coal in her stocking, she should get a whole trainload!
A bah-humbug New Jersey substitute teacher shattered the hearts of a class of first-graders by telling them Santa Claus and his eight reindeer weren’t real — and then it got a lot worse.
“She proceeded to just completely unleash on them,’’ said stunned parent Lisa Simek, whose daughter Emilia was in the class at Cedar Hill School in Montville, on Facebook.
“She told them Santa isn’t real and parents just buy presents and put them under their tree.
“She told them reindeer can’t fly and elves are not real — [and] elf on the shelf is just a pretend doll that your parents move around. She did not even stop there: the tooth fairy is not real because mom or dad just sneak into your room in the middle of the night and put money under your pillow, same goes for the Easter bunny.
“She told them magic does not exist. There is no such thing as magic anything,’’ Simek wrote. “A grown woman tried to crush our 6-year-old’s spirit, along with the spirits of the other 22 kids.”
One parent said the substitute teacher’s rant even targeted leprechauns.
Some of the children refused to believe the Scroogey sub, known as “Ms. M,’’ when she announced the Christmas spirit-stomping news Thursday.
“The children began yelling that everything is real,” one parent, Mayra Aboyoun, wrote on Facebook. “My daughter is completely heartbroken!”
Another woman told The Post that her 6-year-old granddaughter was beside herself.
“My granddaughter came home yesterday and told me, ‘Mimi, Santa Claus isn’t real.’ And I flipped out,” the woman recalled.
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Well first of all this notion of there being a spirit of Christmas or a Magic Christmas is a complete myth. The myth that was concocted in part by Washington Irving Charles Dickens and Clement Moore. What you’re talking about did not exist 200 years ago. The phrase humbug was applied by many when they saw this manufactured Christmas being created by popular culture. The bottom line is that children of being lied to and their trust is being destroyed. You can call it childlike Wonder but what it really boils down to is deceiving children because we like to see how they react.
She fed me Santa Claus and the rest of societal garbage before dying a stupid cow.
I would have rather been given Jesus and learn to walk with him at a much younger age.
Just Damn.
You sound evil... and shitty.
Oh I don't think so. I grew up knowing that Christmas is the celebration of Jesus' birth. In fact, we children enacted that birth in our Christmas pageant at church.
Santa brought us presents but it never took away from the true meaning of and the reason for the celebration of Christmas.
ROFL!!!!
Truth is truth, sweetie. Deal with it.
#6. You’ve hit on something very interesting. How about you showing up at the school in a Santa outfit (as school is being dismissed and with the permission of the principal), and give each student a little bag of Skittles or something to brighten their day.
Then no one can deny that Santa 9in some form) doesn’t exist and that HE DOES bring presents to nice children.
The publicity of this effort would rock the US Left to the point that they and atheists would commit mass suicide or have their empty, hate-filled heads explode.
Maybe you could even rent a deer or two from a local zoo or farm and bring them along with a sleigh.
Wouldn’t that be something.
If you couldn’t do it at on school property, find a lot somewhere (a baseball field, etc), and do it there. Maybe some people would since Christmas carols too. Jewish kids and Moslem kids like Skittles too, so it would be very ecumenical.
Fun for all, except for the newly fired substitute, who was last seen trying to put coal in children’s Christmas stockings before a family dog got hold of her.
To myself.
Wrong word used in sentence: Here is correct version.
“Maybe some people would sing Christmas carols too”.
I left communist Cuba in 1966 at the age of 7.
When we lived there we would rarely see jet contrails overhead. My dad told me it was Santa flying recon to see if the kids were being good.
This was a time when jet contrails were very rare as there just weren’t that many jets flying and most likely, the ones flying high enough to leave contrails were US or Russian military planes. We would only see them infrequently.
You couldn’t pull that one today as there are many contrails visible all day long but back then, when I saw a contrail I was very mindful to be behaving!
“If you couldn’t do it at on school property...”
Do it on the sidewalk outside the school - I’m sure once the kids heard that Santa was handing out candy they would flock over there. (I know, taking candy from a stranger. And only a few months after Halloween!)
“I got news for some folks on this thread: ….
Deal with it.”\
Listen, Ebenezer North Mountain Scrooge, we are adults, we have and do ‘deal with it,’ every day, on all Holidays. We deal with it by playing Santa for our kids, by teaching them to be generous, even using myths and stories to do so.
These were kids, 5 - 6 - 7 years old. There was no reason to try to blight their Holiday, and certainly the teacher had no right or authority to do so. Kids will figure it out on their own, sooner or later. No need to disillusion them at that age.
Boy, ain’t you a real joy. There’s no Great Pumpkin either but for one month out of the year we can’t let little kids enjoy a little Christmas ambiance?
So you went to the mall every week year round and worshipped Santa? I think by the time kids are old enough to figure out Santa they are old enough to see the difference between fun and reality. My kids were never confused about Santa and Jesus. One came around once a year, the other is the bedrock and foundation of our lives.
Most in this world would be more upset if the teacher told them there is a God.
LOL!
I think I was 9, too, when I found the rest of the fabric my mom had used to make Barbie dresses I had gotten for Christmas. I remember that feeling when it hit me, I think my jaw hit the floor. 9 year olds today are so jaded compared to how kids were back then.
>>“She told them reindeer can’t fly and elves are not real — [and] elf on the shelf is just a pretend doll that your parents move around. She did not even stop there: the tooth fairy is not real because mom or dad just sneak into your room in the middle of the night and put money under your pillow, same goes for the Easter bunny.
She should go teach jr. high students and the NEA union, tell them all that Socialist Utopias are not real. Eventually you run out of “other peoples’ money”.
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