There are just no words for this. Truly. Well, except for the ones my sister used when sending me this article: Evil Santa denying bitch. And I have to wonder how quickly disciplinary action would be taken if a teacher had said the same thing about the story of Christ, if they, "in good conscience," tried to foist that personal belief onto children at a SCHOOL. But they wouldn't be hemming and hawing about it then!
Grinchy remark sends kids home in tears
By RORY SCHULER
Staff Writer
Lebanon Daily News LICKDALE — Jamey Schaeffer stretched her mouth open wide, showing off a pair of twin gaps in her smile. With a mouthful of fingers, she said she has no interest in two front teeth for Christmas.
Instead, she’d like a Barbie doll from Santa Claus — and Santa Claus only.
But a substitute music teacher almost came between the 6-year-old and a Christmas Eve spent dancing cheek to cheek with sugar plums.
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.
( Read on... if you dare! )Peace, Ghani
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