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New Jersey teacher tells first-graders there is no Santa
NY Post ^ | 11/30/2018 | Alex Taylor and Natalie O'Neill

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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1 posted on 12/01/2018 6:47:24 PM PST by simpson96
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To: simpson96

That ####.


2 posted on 12/01/2018 6:48:52 PM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: simpson96

Santa has a gender?


3 posted on 12/01/2018 6:49:22 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: simpson96

We don’t have the name of this female.


4 posted on 12/01/2018 6:49:32 PM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: dp0622

Dreadful——a really magical time in a child’s life-——ruined.

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5 posted on 12/01/2018 6:51:12 PM PST by Mears
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To: Mears

:( :( :(

Now the parents are gonna have to go the extra mile to prove there is one.

They are very impressionable both ways and the parents could say the teacher is wrong and an idiot and ask a fat neighbor (Like me :) ) to show up in a Santa outfit.


6 posted on 12/01/2018 6:53:55 PM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: simpson96

My wife would kick her ass


7 posted on 12/01/2018 6:54:28 PM PST by albie
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To: combat_boots

From the school’s staff page:

M

Malloy, Christine
Monaghan, Lauren
Monastero, Carlyn
Moss, Kimberly
Ms. Monastero


8 posted on 12/01/2018 6:54:44 PM PST by simpson96
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To: simpson96

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


9 posted on 12/01/2018 6:55:11 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: simpson96

““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?”


10 posted on 12/01/2018 6:55:13 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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To: simpson96

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.


12 posted on 12/01/2018 6:56:19 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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From the school’s staff page:

The school district lists substitutes on the staff pages? That's really unusual.

13 posted on 12/01/2018 6:56:30 PM PST by PAR35
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To: simpson96

Teacher tells first graders the truth. Everyone gets mad.


14 posted on 12/01/2018 6:56:50 PM PST by Taipei
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To: simpson96

One of those was the sub?


15 posted on 12/01/2018 6:57:59 PM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: simpson96

It said the monster was a substitute.


16 posted on 12/01/2018 6:58:10 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: PAR35

Hey...the “educator” did what she did “for the children “.


17 posted on 12/01/2018 6:58:23 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Taipei

Funny that more people get upset if a teacher tells kids that Santa doesn’t exist, than if a teacher tells them that God doesn’t exist.


18 posted on 12/01/2018 6:58:47 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: simpson96

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


19 posted on 12/01/2018 7:00:12 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: dp0622

One of my grandsons,when he was about 5,was told by a friend that there was no Santa,that his parents were REALLY Santa.

He then said to his mother,” I knew he was wrong because you and Daddy would never leave us alone all night and go out and deliver gifts to children all over the world.”

Problem solved——and a true story.

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20 posted on 12/01/2018 7:00:15 PM PST by Mears
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