Teacher Tells Kids There Is No Santa Claus

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Banjo said:
I always knew that Mickey Mouse was not real, yet it never stopped me from enjoying the cartoons. Same with all of the characters on Sesame Street. Yet it didn't put a dent in my imagination. Imagination is about forming new ideas and concepts that are not present to our senses.

Children did not imagine up Santa Claus, someone else did. Basically, people started to add more to the mythology of Santa Claus by writing poems, short stories and more. It started to get more popular back in the 19th century. However, it was never their intention to have the parents present him as a person who actually exists.
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Likewise I always knew Bugs Bunny wasn't real but I loved watching the Bugs Bunny show and the Roadrunner show. The Roadrunner show didn't need captions. I've always had trouble sleeping sat night so I used to make up stories to myself to pass time while in bed at night when I was little.
 
deafskeptic said:
Likewise I always knew Bugs Bunny wasn't real but I loved watching the Bugs Bunny show and the Roadrunner show. The roadrunner show didn't need captions. I've always had trouble sleeping sat night so I used to make up stories to myself to pass time while in bed at night when I was little.
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I did that a lot as a child. Making up stories to myself, that is.
 
For Banjo and DS: that is actually a sign of intelligence and normal development. (As long as you don't start to think the stories you are making up are reality!)
 
deafskeptic said:
I knew better but yes I should have not have said Christmas..
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Nahhhh, it's no big deal. :lol:

Seriously though, I think people are making a mountain out of a molehill when it comes to Santa Claus. Let's think about this, who are the real victims? The children or the parents?

I think it's the latter.

They need to clam up and move on.
 
jillio said:
For Banjo and DS: that is actually a sign of intelligence and normal development. (As long as you don't start to think the stories you are making up are reality!)
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Two of my World of Warcaft characters are named after my characters from my stories that I made up to myself.
 
jillio said:
That isn't history. That is religion. It is based on the birth of Christ.:roll:
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It is history. There is no religious dogma being taught by using Santa Claus as an opportunity to teach about Saint Nicholas and the gifts of the Magi (which, by the way, you are using as an example to support your claim christmas came from the pagans).

I have to question your approach to religious discussions since you do not seem to quite understand the difference between religion and history.
 
Wars were fought over control of the land, that is history.
Wars were fought over religion, that is history.
 
I think it's a shame that this issue was such that the teacher ended apologizing to the kids...when children go to school hungry, abused, beaten, homeless, bullied, scared and so on....

all this mishegas over some children's fairy tale
 
It's like they say... "There's a time and place for everything."

What that teacher did... wrong time and wrong place.
 
dogmom said:
I think it's a shame that this issue was such that the teacher ended apologizing to the kids...when children go to school hungry, abused, beaten, homeless, bullied, scared and so on....

all this mishegas over some children's fairy tale
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So true.
 
dogmom said:
I think it's a shame that this issue was such that the teacher ended apologizing to the kids...when children go to school hungry, abused, beaten, homeless, bullied, scared and so on....

all this mishegas over some children's fairy tale
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mishegas?
 
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