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No, SFD, the point is a that a busy-body substitute teacher, who had no parental authority to do so,...

What about the parental authority of those who would agree with her or the authority of the voters to elect a school board?

Or the authority of facts and history in education?

What about the authority of the First Amendment? Or, prayer in school, or teaching the Bible as the masterful work of literature it is?

What if the teacher read Biblical passages instead of a poem?

The kids are too young to read the poem themselves, so why not read the Bible?

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But I don't expect you to understand that concept since you want to interject your unwanted opinion about what we should and shouldn't teach OUR children to believe.

You can teach your children to believe the moon is made of green cheese if you want, I will tell mine it is a lie and teach them to say so openly, despite your conceited notion that tradition is none of their business...

But, since I vote for the school board, pay the taxes to support it, I do have a say and I have the First Amendment.

I'll repeat this one last time, since you continue to dismiss the point of what this busy-body substitute teacher did by ranting about school boards, the first amendment, prayer in school, etc. No need to be all over the map on this one. It really is very simple.

Please pay attention to this part because you seem to avoid facing this important point: This controversy has nothing to do with YOU, or YOUR rights to INTERFERE in what other parents, many of whom are Christians, teach their children about Santa.

If you indeed advocate spoiling others family Christmas traditions because YOU are hell bent and determined that it is your right to do so, then I suggest you do more reading in your guilded Bible (and please spare me the pagan speech).

YOU are in charge of your children and what you teach them, but you have no right to usurp my parental authority and undermine my family traditions because you think your way of raising your kids is superior to mine. And I have no right to do the same with your kids. It's called respect and common decency.

I think we're done with this conversation because frankly, I'm sure it will only continue to go nowhere. Goodbye.