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Real-Life Grinch? Texas Teacher Tells Kindergarteners Santa Is Fake

Dec. 5, 2012 1:45pm Madeleine Morgenstern

Austin, Texas Teacher Tells Kindergarteners Santa Is Fake

An Austin, Texas afterschool teacher has one kindergartener’s parents furious after she told students Santa Claus was fake, the Houston Press reported.

Susan Tietz Gammage said her 5-year-old daughter, Aven, came home from Pease Elementary School last week and asked if what Mrs. Fuller said was true.

“She said ‘None of you believe in Santa do you?’ and said that you and mommy buy all our presents and put them under the tree. She said that you should tell us the truth,” Gammage said her daughter told them.

Gammage said coming clean about Claus is definitely not the school’s place: “Another adult has no right to submit their own beliefs on a group of 5-year-olds and their families — about Santa, God, politics or whatever — especially phrased ‘your belief is not right,’” she wrote on her Facebook page.

“To break that harsh reality to them in such a brutal way is just wrong,” she told the Houston Press. “Especially since these kids are 5. She is just really getting into Santa.”

It’s apparently not just the one teacher who refused to get into the Christmas spirit — Gammage said another parent told her about another teacher who informed a student that their drawing of Santa Claus needed to be labeled imaginary.

Gammage said she contacted the principal, who was “horrified” by what the instructors had done and gave her daughter’s teacher “tools to deal with this situation” in the future.

A woman who answered the phone at Pease Elementary confirmed they had an afterschool teacher named Sonia Fuller on staff, but said she hadn’t heard about the controversy.

Another representative from the school did not immediately return an emailed request for comment from TheBlaze.

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redfish52
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:56pm
I can promise that if it were my child this happened to the teacher would have to have my wife’s foot surgically remove from her a$$ as I was raised never to hit a woman…

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- Shamrock241
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:34pm
  This story brings out a RAGE in me that could only be surpass by a story about child molestation. I hate liberals ( Yes Lord thats right i HATE them) to rob a child of there innocence and the excitement of Christmas Eve believing that on that night Santa will visit there house and bring them toys, there is only one word that comes to mind (EVIL) I do not see her as a woman anymore she is one of Satan’s minions so by all means if given the chance without going to jail i would cave her skull in.
  
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- Silvertruth
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:00pm
  The issue I have is that the teacher is dramatically uninformed. She thinks that Santa is about Presents, Sleighs and Magic Reindeer. That’s a childs view of Santa. That is the magic of Santa for children. Santa is an entirely different matter for adults. There is a point when you shift from beliving in Santa to understanding and becoming ‘Santa’, knowing full well that Santa is a very real part of all of us.
  
  This teacher in espousing her own ignorance destroys the cycle of Santa and just creates bitter, disillusioned children that turn into bitter, disillusioned adults.
  
  The miracle of Santa is that he can turn children beliving in magic into loving, giving, and caring adults that can create magic. It is certainly magic to see the eyes of children light up on Christmas morning.
  
  The teacher is just plain wrong, Santa is very real.
  
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- Metallicat
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:06pm
  @Silvertruth
  AMEN
  
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- booger71
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:11pm
  Why am I npt surprised this came out of Austin.
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:23pm
  This so called teacher did told the children what she did out of the evil in her heart. She wanted to hurt the kids and take away trust the kids have for their parents, evil witch.
  
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- fixer
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:51pm
  I’m seriously starting to believe that the only cure for these liberal commies is to hunt them down and kill them like a rabid dog.Do the world a favor.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 5:03pm
  “I was raised never to hit a woman…”
  
  Women’s rights. Equal to men. Times have changed. Can not have it both ways. Can not say that I would, but kinda shows the hypocrisy.
  
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- usedCZARsalesman
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 6:12pm
  woo, SILVER, I just finished doing some Christmas shopping for my 3 and that just gave me chills…I have never loved the Christmas season like I do now that I get to be “Santa” for my children. A truly amazing thing!
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:03pm
  Texas sucks
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:05pm
  Rick c… one small problem with that. “she wants to take away the trust the kids have in their parents” They’re bound to find out their parents are lying to them eventually anyway. she just sped up the process
- frogface
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 8:40pm
  Amen, redfish52. What kind of heartless witch would do this to some sweet, little innocent child??? Hmmm. Let me guess?? The same kind of heartless witch that would vote for our current POS? Excuse me, I meant POTUS. Not! Good thing she wasn’t an after school teacher of my child. May the dung of a thousand reindeer fall upon her worthless hide!
  
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- DadRocked
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 9:34pm
  KEATON – How do you handle Santa and the Tooth Fairy with your 4yr old son?
  Back a few weeks ago, you had told me: “… I am thinking of my kid.. its just one.. 4 year old boy.. adorable!”
  Don’t you want to be the one to lead and teach your son what’s up in life?
  Let’s say that when he goes into kindergarten, I gain his trust, then tell him how he should think and act to not be a liberal thinking individual. That everything that his father believes is wacko.
  
  I know that I do not need to proceed…
  Although… I’d wait until he’s a few years older to define wacko. :-)
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:32am
  @ Keaton
  
  This is not the first time that this question has come up, but this 1897 editorial in the New York Sun says it best in my opinion.
  
  http://www.newseum.org/yesvirginia/
  
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- ToddH
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:27am
  My father broke this reality to me at about the same age because he believed “the myth of Santa competes with the ‘reality’ of Jesus” over the Christmas season. It’s for the same reason that my parents did not believe children should “worship the devil” by going trick or treating.
  It wasn’t really until recently that Christians have found the Christmas season, and every magical myth associated with it, (including Santa), in need of such protection.
  That’s bc atheists are finally attacking the right thing: fun.
  Back in my day during the 1980s the roles of Christians and atheists surrounding Christmas were completely flipped, and Christians were usually on the OPPOSITE side of fun.
  My first grade teacher tried to restore my faith in Santa but that just earned her a loud complaint from my dad.
  
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AbbieLincoln2012
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:50pm
And yet another uneducated teacher, who shouldn’t be a teacher at all. I think most people become teachers to have the summer off. Not because they love teaching children and education them about the world.

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- redfish52
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:59pm
  So this is what Hillary meant when she said “it takes a village to raise a child”…when the parents are not leading the children down the path of socialism someone else will step in…I get it now.
  
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- Jezreel
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 9:54pm
  It was not the teacher’s job to tell the truth to the children that Santa Claus is a lie. It should be the parents. Santa Claus and Christmas traditions are pagan birthed, nothing to do with Jesus Christ. It is not even the birthday of Jesus. My husband and I never told our four children that crappy lie and to this day, they have never regretted that we chose to tell them truth.
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 4:03am
  I hate to ruin your rant, Jezreel, but Santa was a real person…
  
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- ToddH
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:36am
  You want to see the type of real life grinch my folks were, just look at Jezreel’s post.
  Let me second NZKiwi’s response: Santa DID exist. And he was a saint who celebrated the birth of Christ by showering the orphan children in his village with gifts.
  Jezreel, if you are a Christian and you think that’s a good reason to kill the fun and magic of ever holiday then your kids will grow up to resent you AND your religion.
  
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- FoeHammer865
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:02am
  Jezreel, Heart doesn’t yearn for the eye doesn’t ponder. Your children don’t “regret” it because they know nothing else.
  
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Metallicat
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:47pm
How anyone could rob children of the joy of Christmas and Santa Claus sickens me. Santa is a mythical hero of children,and to enjoy that with them,no matter how short the time,is like magic. The same magic that sparks love,and keeps a us young in our hearts. those who would deny them that are heartless and already dead on the inside,and have no business celebrating the holiday or ruining it for others. shame on them. Sadistic monsters probably enjoy beating their kids and humiliating them.

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- deeberj
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:09pm
  “The same magic that sparks love,and keeps a us young in our hearts. those who would deny them that are heartless and already dead on the inside,and have no business celebrating the holiday or ruining it for others. shame on them. Sadistic monsters probably enjoy beating their kids and humiliating them”
  
  So I need to believe in Santa to be loving, teach my children about love, and keep me feeling young. Because I don’t lie about Santa being real I am dead on the inside? I should not celebrate my Savior’s birth? I am a sadistic monster.
  
  Puh…lease. Stop the drama mamma. Santa is just a mythical figure. I can have love, teach my children love, feel young, be alive inside and manage to neither be sadistic nor a monster without him. There is a way to tell your children that Santa is a modern day myth, based on a real man in the past, and then tell them about the real man and about Jesus. Because the holiday is really about Jesus, right????
  
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- Metallicat
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:32pm
  Were you ever a Catholic nun? you sound about as rigid and fun as one. Youre a scrooge sister. And Im a mister. Im a kid at heart,and wouldnt deprive any kid of the joy I experienced as a kid at Christmas. They will have plenty of time to learn the ugly truths of this world.
  
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- SolitudeBliss
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:08pm
  @deeberj You need to LIGHTEN UP. Can you remember what it was like to be a kid? It’s wonderful to watch little kids get more and more excited as Christmas Eve draws closer. It reminds us of our own childhood when we were not so cynical and jaded as you and we still believed in magical things like Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. Just because you grew up to be a disillusioned, bitter adult does NOT mean you have to take it out on the rest of the world. You’re probably one of those people that have problems with the Charlie Brown Christmas special. Good Grief !!!
  
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- calamityjane85
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 5:10pm
  “those who would deny them that are heartless and already dead on the inside,and have no business celebrating the holiday or ruining it for others. shame on them. Sadistic monsters probably enjoy beating their kids and humiliating them.”
  
  geez metallicat! lmfao!!
  
  I guess I am a heartless bitch for not lying to my kids about santa. They enjoy CHRISTmas just like every other kid, with excitement and joy. We tell them the truth all they way, and they are growing up sharp and quick witted and have learned to question things for themselves.
  We have great joy in our hearts because we celebrate the birth of Jesus, but let me get back to being a sadistic monster and beating them….
  
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DarkestbeforeDawn
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:47pm
By the way -

Batman isn’t real.

Star Wars isn’t real.

Lord of the Rings isn’t real.

Star Trek isn’t real. And the Vulcan saying “Live long and prosper” must be changed to “live a short life and give everything you make to the common good”

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- pissantno.10
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 6:08pm
  no not star wars tell me your lieing
  
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:43pm
It is not the school’s roll or that teacher’s roll to tell 5 year olds there is no Santa. She should be fired. This ‘santa’ issue is strictly the parent’s domain. Most people have parents who told them Santa was coming with their presents. None of them (I didn’t) consider it a lie when I found Santa was really my parents. Believing in Santa is fun and adds to the mystique of Christmas. Of course you tell the kids of Jesus whose birth is the meaning of the holiday but Santa and the north pole and all of that adds a little fun and excitement for the children. It is stupid and kind of mean to take that fun away from 5 year old.

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- deeberj
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:03pm
  So you tell them Santa is real and brings them presents and all that stuff, and they’d better be good or they won’t get presents.
  
  And then you tell them Jesus is God’s son and He was born on Xmas and He was born to save you from your sin so you could go to heaven when you die.
  
  When they find out you lied about Santa, and the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy and whatever other mythical figure you’ve convinced them is real, why should they believe you about Jesus? They can’t see Him; they have no proof He is real.
  
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- mopman64
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:16pm
  Jesus was a real man god is mind candy.
  
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- SolitudeBliss
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:10pm
  @Deeberj From an agnostic to you (I’m assuming you’re atheist) I’d like to say: “There is no proof that God exists however, there is also no proof that he does not exist”. Live and Let Live.
  
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- tradcatholicgirl
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:18pm
  @DEEBERJ,
  
  ARE YOU SERIOUS? How stupid do you think children are? Children, when old enough to not believe in Santa, can certainly get the difference between Jesus and Santa. They don’t mix up the myth and the truth. They always get that Santa was there to give them joy when young enough to believe. Most of grateful for the effort put forth to give them that happiness.
  
  If you have kids, or know kids that are that stupid, maybe they SHOULD be told the truth right off. However, I personally cannot think if one example of that kind of dense thinking.
  
  Oh, wait..maybe I can. Debberj, you are truly exceptional.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:56pm
  DEEBERJ…
  
  “And then you tell them Jesus is God’s son and He was born on Xmas….”
  
  Actually, that’s not what i tell my kids. I tell them that Xmas is when we CELEBRATE Christ’s birth. Theologians aren’t exactly sure when Jesus was born.
  …And i tell them the truth about Santa… that he is magic. He is very real up to the precise moment you stop believe in him then ,*poof*, he ceases to exist. prove me wrong. i dare you.
  
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DarkestbeforeDawn
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:42pm
If the little white lie of allowing children to believe in the fantasy of Santa Clause is a terrible thing, then men should be off the hook from now on when they have to answer the question asked by grown women:
“Do these jeans make my but look big?”

“Sorry, society demands I do not propagate fairy tales Yes, they do.”

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- deeberj
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:00pm
  Little white lie? A lie is a lie. Just call it what it is and be real with yourself.
  
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- Shamrock241
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:44pm
  Ok i will be real right now and tell you that you are a complete KILL JOY. do not take your kid to Disney World that is all about Fantasy.
  
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- zorro
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:15pm
  @deeberj You’re full of it if you expect me to belive you never lie to your children. Parents have to lie to protect them. Admit instead you pick and choose the lies you tell. There is nothing wrong with that. What is wrong is if you went around sticking your nose where it doesn’t belong.
  
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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 12:11am
  The jeans don’t make your wife’s **** do anything, her **** makes the jeans look bad. There is no dishonesty in summarizing this truth with the short answer, “No. No, they don’t.”
  
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Olive44
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:39pm
I can think of better things to get upset about. I mean, it IS a lie, but most people participate in it, so I don’t see the need to ruin these kids’ Christmas. There are a LOT of ignorant, entitled and slavish American citizens that still believe in Santa Claus, too…. how would they feel if someone of higher responsibility and accountability were to go and just pop THEIR bubble??… oh, wait, it WILL be popped Jan 1, and I’m guessing they will be crying all the way to the bread lines

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- zorro
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:09pm
  It is a lie but just because something is true doesn’t mean we have to go around spreading it. If a friend of yours had a sister or daughter who was a stripper, would it be right to you to constantly bring it up? It’s true, after all. I’m sure you’ll agree it is not OK. An adult should be able to tell the difference between the two. This wasn’t done to help the children in any way. It was done to belittle the beliefs of the parents. Basically, this teacher was just being a b*tch.
  
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Olive44
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:21pm
I can think of bigger issues to get bent out of shape over – it IS a big lie, but since everyone’s participating, it seems unfair to ruin it for some little kids. Our govt. has a lot of unsuspecting, ignorant and slavish sheep believing in Santa Claus, too – I give up – they don’t WANT to be educated, and we’re making damned sure our kids aren’t so just go with it!

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- sleepnomore
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:33pm
  go with it? Not sure what u meant there, NO-ONE has the right to tell 5 year old kids that. It is up to the parents to do! She should be fired. Lots of problems, teachers are one of them. Unions, if they got a regular pay check, w/o any deductions for unios, they would be better offf. Should pay for own health care too!
  
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J. David
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:19pm
Come on. Why would parents want to start their relationship with their children with a lie? Santa Claus is a lie. Jesus came to set us free from lies and deceit. Start telling your kids about Jesus, he is all that matters.

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- Cavallo
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:37pm
  Just wait until the government thugs start telling your kids Jesus doesn’t exist either. Remember it is all up to the government what you believe in public and in public institutions. You get to hide your religion in your basement. The only god that matters is the State. And the State looks to snuff out any of its competition.
  
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- deeberj
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:58pm
  I agree with J. David, but I don’t agree that a teacher should have said anything about Santa not being real. She shlould just not be talking about Santa. And if a kid asked her a question she could have told the kid to ask her own parents.
  
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- desert buckeye
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:45pm
  Santa Claus was and is real. His name was Kris Kringle. (not sure of the spelling)
  The spirit of Christmas is kept alive by people who give to others in a heartfelt way. Let children live in a majical world while they can…reality will come soon enough!
  
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RSHLUVER
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:17pm
Why wasn’t the teacher fired?

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- Cavallo
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:57pm
  Because she is protected by the Union, that is an extension of the Government, carrying out the governments will.
  
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ResistSocialism
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:16pm
Those kids should ignore that stupid teacher. Just because Santa never visited her house doesn’t make Santa any less real.

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aorobert
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:13pm
But there IS a Santa Claus! We re-elected him to office for four more years last month!

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- LakeHartwellSailor
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:05pm
  Yep, and when he says “Ho, Ho, Ho”…..he’s really talking about Sandra Fluke
  
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BlackCrow
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:13pm
Austin, Just remember we have you surrounded.

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CPA
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:12pm
Are there any teachers left out there that are really good teachers? You know – the ones who teach about math, science, and how to be a productive member of society capable of holding down a job or employing others or make something out of your life? Why would Santa even be a discussion topic in schools? Can I come teach her kids my own objectives and turn them against their parents (her) and make them think she is telling them lies about life too?

It seems every story I hear about teachers makes me wonder why it is we are forced to pay for schools at all.

It seems they are all just union run organizations with zero skills in conducting their own lives in any sort of positive productive manor let alone instructing kids how to live and run theirs. It’s no wonder our nation is the place it is.

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- Cavallo
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:40pm
  You are forced to pay for schools because we would not fund this garbage if given a free and individual choice. Money must be extracted from you at gun point. They can do whatever they wish to your children. They see your children as in your temporary custody and the children are true wards of the State. You just help provide food and shelter from time to time to reduce the burden on the State. Their beliefs and their loyalties must be first to the State and its surrogates, the Teachers Unions.
  
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- deeberj
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:56pm
  Our children have been taught Santa for a really long time. I am 58 and had this crap in school and so did all of my children and their children. It’s been around a long time. Santa all December, Halloween stuff all October, Bunny all month before Easter. It’s not new.
  
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MDECKER
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:11pm
What’s the big deal? Sonia Fuller is a fake teacher.

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Frederick_Douglass_Republican
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:11pm
Not that big of a deal, but it is just another reason to home school. If you have kids get them the h out of the public schools.

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AlansTigg
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:03pm
They’ve been allowed to teach our children whatever they wanted with very little blowback for so long and now that they believe they have won they are not holding back any longer, they will save our country’s children from the ills of faith, family and tradition, while instilling in them the proper respect and adoration for the gov’t and mother earth…Brave New World!

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SaturdaysWarrior76
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:03pm
This is really outrageous. It’s way out of control. I hope these parents put this teacher through the ringer for this! And I hope SANTA puts coal in this teacher’s stocking!

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FatManChew
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:01pm
I’m going to be a dad mid year 2013 and I can’t understand why parents continue to tell children about Santa Claus. You do all of the work at Christmas time for your children why not take credit for it?

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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:05pm
  YOUR poor CHILD. Guess you don’t believe in anything do you? Santa Claus is a feeling, a spirit, an example of HOPE. It’s a natural progression of things for children to believe in things. How sad.
  
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- Unbelievable
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:08pm
  It’s your choice as a parent how you would like to celebrate holidays. Most parents get great joy out of their kids celebrating a traditional Christmas. Celebrating the birth of Jesus and celebrating Christmas with Santa Claus.
  
  It’s not a teacher’s job to **** into a child’s personal family life and.or traditions!
  
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- Guitarcarl
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:11pm
  Most parents aren’t so insecure that they need to take the credit for everything. Lots parents enjoy all the excitement and fun that Santa creates for the little kids. Of course, some people think everything is about them so they try to spoil everyone’s fun.
  
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- circleDwagons
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:13pm
  Santa is part of the culture. It is cute. My wife and I emphasize Jesus and God ‘s great Love. Merry Christmas
  
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- Oneirishman
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:16pm
  What a selfish sallow attitude. If your child is born an idiot, like you, would it be ok for me to tell them that? How about if they have a physical disability and we constantly point it out, or would you rather we ignore it for the child’s sake?
  
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- deeberj
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:18pm
  When my first was six and my second just born and my third coming 16 yrs later, my then husband and I decided to stop telling our children lies about Santa and the Easter Bunny and so forth. My children did not suffer. My first knew it anyway, my second born was brainwashed at public school about Santa so even though we didn’t participate with the Santa myth he chose to believe when he was little.
  
  By the time my last one was born, I never taught him these myths. He was fine, I didn’t shove it down his throat or get angry if he talked about it. I just downplayed Santa’s place in this holiday and the same with the Easter Bunny. We just didn’t participate in that part of the holiday.He attended public school since I had no way to do private or homeschool, and when they talked about that stuff he knew the truth but I taught him to keep it to himself in order not to hurt other kids’ feelings.
  
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- Metallicat
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:24pm
  Wow,are you such a man without accomplishment in life that you cant let your children enjoy a fun little fairytale for a short period of time and need all the credit for yourself? Must be a government employee.
  
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- deeberj
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:26pm
  I know I already replied, but I needed to reply again to all you posters who think we should all go along with Santa and Easter Bunny for the sake of our children.
  
  Hogwash! These are specific Christian celebrations – the birth of the Christ and the death & resurrection of the Christ. I do not see the need to bring in fictional characters to make these very sacred holidays “better” or more fun for children.
  
  Children can imagine things all the time every day, and we can encourage their imaginations in so many other healthier ways that don’t involve lying to them. It just takes more work to find ways for their imaginations to blossom, rather than participate in the Santa myth, which isn’t much work at all.
  
  It won’t ruin my child’s imagination if we don’t believe in Santa in my house. By the time I had my third child I saw the light and never did the Santa thing and he always had a very active imagination that was not harmed by me not telling him lies about Santa. I found many ways to help him.
  
  There are children who, when they find out Santa isn’t real, start to wonder what else their parents lie to them about. My sister had a huge break in her faith in her parents when she found out about Santa. It hurt her for a very long time. I know she can’t be the only one.
  
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- Oneirishman
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:50pm
  @DEEBERJ
  You sound very self righteous. Having to post long and wordy posts, tells us, people don’t like to listen to you in the real world. How’s that kind of truth make you feel? Kind of like learning there’s no Santa, huh?
  
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- zorro
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:03pm
  Because we’re not bitter little b*tches like you. It does no harm for a child to believe in magic, *******. Just because something is true, it doesn’t mean you can go spewing it around. That’s the difference between a child and an adult. An adult should know when to keep their mouths shut. Apparently, this one doesn’t. But in the liberal Austin, Tx, it doesn’t surprise me one bit.
  
  If you ask me, thsoe parents deserve it. It’s why they get for sending their children to public schools.
  
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grimmster
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:59pm
I live in Austin, so maybe i’ll look up ms. fuller………

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Oneirishman
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:55pm
This is the first year our daughter doesn’t believe. We are going to miss that. These teachers would be wearing us.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:54pm
“Another adult has no right to submit their own beliefs on a group of 5-year-olds and their families.

What do you think public schools are for lady? That’s all they do is tell kids what to think instead of how to think and they’ve been indoctrinating them into collectivism since the 60′s.

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- Cavallo
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:55pm
  And we’re forced by gunpoint to fund this garbage.
  
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doomytram
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:51pm
Merry Kwanzaa teacher! Get back to teaching Gay History Month and Diversity through white people suppression. Go teach him about Calypso Louie is real…..doe. ahh rah… uhh rah the dis honorable Farrakhan history month is for real doe.. ahh rah

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- oldguy49
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:52pm
  and our taxes are paying for this………………..
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:06pm
  But you don’t understand !!! These teachers are told to take apart AMERICAN Beliefs and Values and destroy all that is AMERICAN and hopeful in the world. This poor little teacher was JUST DOING HER JOB.
  
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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:50pm
Well if we’re going to go full truth, then the teacher should explain how she’s a parasitic union thug who is feeding on the dying corpse of a once great nation that has been crippled by collectivist ideology and that her class will suffer the rest of their days as wage slaves to feed the needs of the collective. If they are lucky they may rise to the role of a courtesan, but that generally any departure from wage slave status is that of KIA soldier in wars of treasure.

If you’re going to play the honesty card you might as well go all the way with it.

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- RANGER1965
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:03pm
  lol!
  
  Most replys, mine included; are nice cutting remarks, some funny, some serious, some heavy on the sarcasm. I envision a small sharp knife slicing into the problem presented by the Blaze article.
  
  Your response Roth, was a yard of cold steel plunging into the guts of the issue. It could not be said any better.
  
  HOOAH!
  
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- DEFCON4
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:04pm
  @Roth,”Honestly” that was one of your best postings.
  Thanks, for the Laugh !
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:17pm
  OMG, ha ha ha ha ha!!!! Roth, we need a “like” button for that comment!!!
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:07pm
  Perfectly stated.
  
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normalmom
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:50pm
How mean let them use their imaginations a bit longer. What a scrooge.

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