Talk about the Grinch. Here’s someone that should be frog marched into the playground and shot!!
What a dirty rotten Grinch! She should not be allowed around young children at all. Revoke her teaching license and egg her house in the middle of the night! Yeah, frozen egg is so much fun!
Tough love is one thing, cruelty is another. This witch could have done so many things differently and she chose to do the thing that would be most grievous. Pathetic.
Hang her by her toes and beat her with giant candy canes.
There’s a time to relinquish belief in childish things. First grade is what? 6-7 year olds? Not time yet!
Fire the grinch who said
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.”
I was such an impressionable child and Santa was out-grown at the proper time. No harm done.
Farrisi was there to read the poem, not spread her personal beliefs to “impressionable” children. That argument goes both ways. Look at how many “impressionable” children cried because of impressions left by Farrisi.
Farrisi should be very afraid because…
The goblins’ll get you, ef you don’t watch out!
Wait a sec! You mean to tell me that, in THIS day and age, there are kids that STILL believe in Santa Claus? That’s amazing! Especially in a society where 6 and 7 year-old kids are exposed to sex, violence, and many other forms of depravity daily from TV. I’m stunned…
Must have been a Republican! Remember folks, Republicans become Republicans the day they stop believing in Santa Claus. People who never give up believing in Santa Claus remain Democrats.
I guess that I’ve always been a Republican, since I never believed in Santa Claus. Seriously. My parents never did that with me. They told me the reason there is Christmas (i.e., Jesus was born). In fact, when my sister was about three years old, this lady was asking her about Santa, and she simply said “Santa doesn’t come to our house” in a very matter-of-fact voice. Her jaw just about hit the floor. My mom then explained that we celebrate the birth of Jesus on Christmas, and my sister concurred.
Jen, your parents are...are...such LUTHERANS!
In MY house being Jewish we didn’t celebrate Christmas-never could convince them to get me a “Chanukkah bush"-but we DID celebrate “Santa Claus”.
Every year the old guy came.
In ‘78 we had just-like 2 days before-moved into our new house-and on christmas morn I though that “Santa” had been a bit stingy with me.
I went up to my parents room to complain-and what do ya know-Santa had left a HUGE plush shark(what else-it was a white)in my parent’s closet with the Chanukkah presents.
If He could leave my shark in my parents room couldn’t he have just as easily left it down stairs?
It was then that I put two & two together.
I was 8.
1) Is that the best insult you could come up with? and 2) What you just stated is the exact reason they refused to tell us about Santa Claus, and I don’t think I’m the worse for wear. My mom barely managed to pull off the Tooth Fairy, because she sucks at lying, since my Grandpa Robert (her biological father) hated liars.
Being the verbal asassin that I am I COULD have come up with much worse-but I’ve been a gentle spirit this weekend.
Listen and learn Grasshopper...listen and learn.
“ Now go out there and dance!-’But I can’t dance-I’m a lutheran’. Well when you go out you’ll be a lutheran and when you come back ,you’ll be ...interesting.”
-Garrision Kellior in the ‘Prairie Home Companion’-"Ruby Keeler” sketch
As if I haven’t heard that one a thousand times…