Preachin', you have hit the nail on the head in a sense here, giving me the words to elaborate on what I said in another post about this woman having another agenda with all this. Jesus can't be discussed in public schools, so Santa shouldn't be discussed in public schools. That's her bottom line here. And again, IMHO it is utterly reprehensible on her part to get 6-year-old kids caught up in a church-state battle that they don't understand. I repeat, she is no different, in her on way, than the loony on DU the other day who said that as long as 6-year-olds are starving in Darfur, 6-year-olds in the U.S. shouldn't have Santa Claus.
I'll tack this on, at the risk of flames. And I'll say up front, this is coming from a Christian, a Sunday school teacher and the parent of children who are enrolled, at great expense that we really can't afford but somehow with the help of God are making it happen, in a private Christian school. I do not think, at least from a prostlyzation or evangelical standpoint, Jesus SHOULD be discussed in public schools. Not because I or the Mrs. or my kids are ashamed of Jesus, or because of anything to do with the First Amendment, but because quite frankly the reality of the year 2005 is that there's no guarantee that the person prostlytizing or evangelizing on Jesus from the teacher's desk is going to be a good Baptist/Methodist/Lutheran/Presbyterian/Catholic or whatever, and I prefer to know a little bit about the theology of people who discuss religion with my children before letting them have that access.