Santa Claus has a place in the world
Some people are such assholes.
I read this in the Lebanon daily news:
"Theresa Farrisi stood in for Schaeffer’s regular music teacher one day last week. One of her assignments was to read Clement C. Moore’s famous poem, "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" to a first-grade class at Lickdale Elementary School.
"The poem has great literary value, but it goes against my conscience to teach something which I know to be false to children, who are impressionable," said Farrisi, 43, of Myerstown. "It’s a story. I taught it as a story. There’s no real person called Santa Claus living at the North Pole."
Farrisi doesn’t believe in Santa Claus, and she doesn’t think anyone else should, either. She made her feelings clear to the classroom full of 6- and 7-year-olds, some of whom went home crying. "
It's an old saying that just because you can do a thing doesn't mean that you should a thing.
Young children are not fully formed adults and there are many people who can't seem to get that concept through their thick skulls.
Children should not be told the absolute truth all of the time; children should not have total freedom of speech; children should not have a right to privacy from their parents; and children do need a certain amount of censorship in their lives.
Also, today I noticed that a federal judge threw out the California law that regulates the sale of violent video games to children under 18 because he says that it violates their first ammendment rights.
Perhaps there needs to be a constitutional ammendment that specifies that what rights children should realistically posses and what rights the parent's have in the raising of their children.
This is getting ridiculous.
posted by loudogblog @ 7:02 PM
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