[dp0622]

That ####.

[Paladin2]

Santa has a gender?

[combat_boots]

We don’t have the name of this female.

[albie]

My wife would kick her ass

[Raycpa]

House rules. No one tells mom there is no Santa.

[LeoTDB69]

““She told them magic does not exist. There is no such thing as magic anything,’’”

LOL. If I was in that class I would immediately follow up with, “but you’re a witch. Don’t you have a magic flying broom?”

[Huskrrrr]

VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

[Taipei]

Teacher tells first graders the truth. Everyone gets mad.

[Kickass Conservative]

Since she into truth telling, next thing you know she will tell them Democrats are really Socialists.

[shanover]

That is the least of NJ’s problems.

[Fiji Hill]

I hope she continued on this theme and told them that institutional racism doesn’t exist in this country and neither does anthropogenic global warming.

[Wiser now]

We had a similar incident years ago. My husband and I were driving home on Christmas evening, our 6 and 4 year old daughters in the backseat. We had the radio on, and because my husband and I were talking and not paying too much attention to what was on, we missed the fact that a sanctimonious liberal named Joyce Maynard was pontificating about the myth of Santa Claus and how she wanted her daughter to know her gifts came from her mother, not Santa. The girls were listening, and childhood wonder was ruined.
Liberals aren’t happy unless everybody is miserable.

[txrefugee]

Who is lying to the kids, the substitute or the parents?

[righttackle44]

I am a Christian, born again and a Bible teacher. We told our children the story of the birth of Jesus always and often, and we shared the story of Santa Claus with them as well.

As they grew older, then themselves began to understand that Santa Claus was a myth, and they solidified their own spiritual beliefs.

In their minds, Christmas time is a time that associated with happiness, gift-giving, and family time as well as the virgin birth of Jesus who was sent to die and be resurrected for our forgiveness of sin by God

There's no reason to sadden children. They are very precious.

[DouglasKC]

A teacher told the truth!!!! She taught the truth!

[Pinkbell]

Too little to take that away. I was 9 years old when I stopped believing in Santa, and the next year, Christmas lost a little bit of its magic. I was sad but was also older and had began to question it - my Mom told me because I questioned it. Kids at school started saying they don’t believe around that age. For first graders, it’s so much fun to believe in Santa. This woman ruined it for them.

[DouglasKC]

Humbug:

humbug (hŭmˈbŭgˌ)►

n. Something intended to deceive; a hoax or fraud.
n. A person who claims to be other than what he or she is; an impostor.
n. Nonsense; rubbish.

By any objective standard belief in Santa Claus and promulgating a belief in Santa Claus IS humbug.

[NorthMountain]

I got news for some folks on this thread:

Saint Nicholas died a long time ago.

There are no elves.

Reindeer don’t fly.

Nobody lives at the North Pole.

Parents buy presents and put them under the tree.

Deal with it.

[Robert DeLong]

Wait til she tells them that Republicans are evil, and Democrats are saviors. That heaven & hell don't exist and that when you die that is it. That God doesn't exist and anyone that believes in that is stupid. She will, or I should say the school system will, at some point in time. Though they might push Allah.

Public education is one thing that regardless what you pay for it, it is still worthless.

[Exit148]

WHAT? SHE LIES! All my Christmas gifts have the words “From Santa” on them!!!