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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ROFL!!!
That’s SO CUTE!!
If the people on this board knew what a mush I am in real life (when i’m not threatening to pummel three Albanian 20 somethings for taking my parking spot) i’d be ruined!!
I LOVE KIDS.
I dont understand folks that don’t.
That is the least of NJ’s problems.
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.
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.
By first grade, I had it figured out; Mom and Dad were Santa.
But I was smart enough not to tell my little brother. Also, by that age, I'd learned the real story of St. Nicholas in church.
Who is lying to the kids, the substitute or the parents?
Substitutes aren’t necessarily on the staff....
If this teacher had said Trump was a wonderful president we would have her name, address and cell phone number.
Best times of my life was being Santa.
There is nothing better than a kid at Christmas.
Libs should just move to the middle of the Pacific.
Curse them all
A teacher told the truth!!!! She taught the truth!
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.
You’re a single dimensional fool.
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.
“By first grade, I had it figured out; Mom and Dad were Santa.”
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I’ll tell you what really left me disappointed during my childhood. I had always just assumed that Christmas carols were sung by angels at the birth of Jesus. I had this belief long after I quit believing in Santa Claus.
I remember looking at the words to Silent Night in a book of carols and saw that it was written in the 1800s. I then looked at other carols and it dawned on me that they were written long after the birth.
Our kid’s were pretty old and they still believed in Santa. One year the oldest had heard in school that Santa wasn’t real. He convinced the other kids at school that he was real - but he still had some doubts and was questioning us.
Most of the year we were pretty cheap with the kids. Not going out and buying the latest stuff or giving them whatever they wanted.
“No Santa? What - you think Mom and I buy you all of the cool name-brand stuff? The latest toys and games? Really!?”
“Oh - yeah. I KNEW Santa is real!!!
Come Christmas morning I put the cookie crumbs on the carpet and even some ash and soot from the fireplace on the carpet.
The kids were up first, and when I came in the first thing I noticed was the mess, and started ranting about Santa, and then cleaning up the mess. Back in the day I was a bit obsessed about the carpet, and I figured that would add some credibility to Santa.
I think they went another few years still believing in Santa. Those were fun days when kids could just be kids.
How about the Veggie Tales version?
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.
When I was little and heard that one song - I thought they were singing about my dad. Seriously!
“Hark the Harold angel sings...”
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