And she was reading to 6 year old kids, right?
If this woman is so deeply offended by Santa Claus (and other subjects of faith and spirituality the children's PARENTS might have told their children)...and she sees it as her personal right and responsibility to disabuse small children of their belief in the magic of fairy tales (and other things unseen but felt by faith)....then what the he## is she doing teaching in elementary school?
"And she was reading to 6 year old kids, right?
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Six year olds? How many six year olds do you suppose still believe that Santa Claus is a real figure? I gave that nonsense up at age 4, for pete's sake.
Santa is a nice symbolic figure, with roots in Christianity. This teacher taught those roots to these kids. She's not anti-Christian at all, as far as I can tell.
Santa Claus is a mythological figure. Santa does not really exist. It is the idea of Santa Claus that is attractive. At age six, this will not be the first time these kids will have been exposed to the fact that Santa is not real. Other kids will have disabused them of that fact already, I guarantee.
"then what the he## is she doing teaching in elementary school?"
Why the ***% is Santa being taught in public school as a religion?
You know, I kind of agree with her...although I would not have made as big a deal of it. Why should this poem be read in a public school?
You know, I kind of agree with her...although I would not have made as big a deal of it. Why should this poem be read in a public school?
"what the he## is she doing teaching in elementary school?"
That's really easy for you to say. She has bills to pay.
You're saying that every teacher should be willing to tell society's official lies.
People get wrapped up over the little things that they overlook the larger picture. The Myth of Santa does not push out Jesus from the Holiday, but shows what the effect of Jesus had on others that Nickolaus' influence has become world-wide and spanning the centuries. Maybe not in a historial sense, but it is fun for the whole family.
There are those who do take the Santa thing too far, but that is the minority.
Deeply offended and perhaps with a great point. Who among us did not go through the trauma of finding out mom and dad had outright lied to them and in a way that made them the laughing stock of school children around about them until they understood that to be so. It's bad enough to learn that your parents lied to you in no uncertain terms. Why lie to kids?
To make it easier to lie to adults? To get children used to being lied to so that it has no effect on them when they do it? It's one thing to tell fairy tales. It's quite another to tell the kid it's true. Or does it depend on the definition of "is"...