Teacher tells kids Santa is 'make-believe' (1st graders)

AP ^ | Thursday, December 4, 2003

[presidio9]

Sandra Jolly said her 6-year-old son's Christmas was spoiled when his teacher told the first-grade class Monday that "Santa Claus is make-believe."

"He had this sad, lost puppy dog look on his face. This unhappy, empty look," Jolly said. "He said his teacher informed the entire class that Santa is make-believe."

[Howlin]

Okay, I'll admit it right out in the open: I think those fiber optic trees are WAY cool........I may get one and keep it out of sight......LOL.

[Cindy]

re post no. 376.

Yep, if you took a look at my Christmas page you saw that I wrote that it is a FACT that Jesus was not born on December 25th. There is a lot more about Christmas for anyone that wants to visit my Christmas page.

December 25, 2003: CHRISTmas (Cindy says, "Celebrate CHRIST everyday! Amen.")

[Tamzee]

It was awful

I'm sorry to hear that :-(

I've been really disappointed at parades, too, and now the only ones we go to are for Veterans Day.

[nopardons]

Tons of it...I wouldn't be a GREAT cook, without it. LOL

[nopardons]

GMTA...and so we do. LOL

[Luis Gonzalez]

First line on the "profile":

"Popular with both children and adults."

Life is so cruel some times.

[Tamzee]

I like your Freepin tools.... perhaps we could also require them to type "I believe in lowering taxes" as their first post?

I do believe they would suffer physical damage just during the attempt.

[nopardons]

I didn't look at your page, Christmas or otherwise; didn't have to. I know this subject indise out. LOL

[rwfromkansas]

It may bring a sparkle in the kid's eyes for awhile, but it seems to me that you aren't being much of a parent if you have to resort to fairy tales to get them excited.

[SerpentDove]

>>First they insisted that Santa was 'real'; then they 'laughed' about it. Laughed... I HATED them for that. I trusted them implicitly, I wanted to believe them, and I was betrayed over something as stupid as Santa. So, if my parents would lie to me about Santa; everything they have said and promised since then has been suspect.<<

[nopardons]

Pish tush...you're NOT going to ruin my Christmas, nor Santa,for me, old friend.

[onyx]

#470 Thank you for that! Perfect! ROFLMAO!

[The Grammarian]

The teacher may be right, but she's also a moron.

No, the parents who keep propagating the mythic figure of him are liars. There was a real man named Saint Nicholas. He was a Christian bishop in Asia Minor (present-day Turkey) in the first centuries Anno Domini. Or better yet, celebrate Christmas as someone else suggested.

[Viking2002]

It's an NEA insect. I'm surprised she didn't tell them that Jesus is fake, and Santa DOES exist.

[Tamzee]

Eddie Izzard is the funniest man I've ever seen in my life.... I didn't think I'd like him until I heard his act, he is brilliant!!!

Or should I say, "Fantabulous!"

[Cindy]

Christmas blessings to you No Pardons.

[bootless]

At the very least, a Freeper entrance exam should ask who the VP of the USA is! (cross-reference to Sean Hannity's Street Exams...)

[rwfromkansas]

you some moral relativist?

[onyx]

Yes! Amazing or disgusting, isn't it, how few can name VP Cheney? I hope they don't vote.

[Howlin]