Brooklyn teacher tells first graders Santa is not real.

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  1. bx4

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    I was responding to your post:


    So go ahead. You provide links for that. I know you won’t because it was just a case of “Something happened that offends me. I’ll blame it on people I hate. “
     
  2. US Conservative

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    No links that she's a Trump supporter? Im totally shocked.
     
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    DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.
    Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
    Papa says, ‘If you see it in THE SUN it’s so.’
    Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?

    VIRGINIA O’HANLON.
    115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET.

    VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

    Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

    Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

    You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

    No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
     
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    No links that she’s an antifa supporter? Or a commie?

    I’m shocked.
     
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    DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.
    Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
    Papa says, ‘If you see it in THE SUN it’s so.’
    Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?

    DEAR VIRGINIA
    You're 8 years old! How can you still believe in that rubbish; your other friends are laughing at you. Why do you still believe that an old man visits little children in the middle of the night
     
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    Aprice Jones. 17 East Street, Utah
    DEAR Editor
    My friends all got Ipads and new mobile phones from Santa and all I got was a pair of socks and a used toy. Have I been bad this year?

    DEAR Aprice
    Clearly you have. You disgust me. The pair of socks and a used toy was more than you deserved with your constant moaning
     
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    You either don't care, or support the immoral actions of the Leftists. But, we all knew that anyways.
     
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    Donald tRump said there was no Santa Claus last year. So why are you trumpers whining. tRump was answered by a tweet by 'The Real Santa Claus' "How would you like it if I went around saying there was no Donald Trump?"
     
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    I told my first grade class that their was no Santa Clause. Oh but I was a first grade student when I did that not a teacher. The nun dragged me out in the hallway and told me that I should not ruin it for the kids who still believed.

    Oh yes I was a rebellious kid from the start..
     
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    One year there was snow down here. Little me heard the jingle bells and saw the sleigh tracks in the yard. The mood and the mystery was life giving.
     
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    Just name St. Nick, "Socialist Clause" and many adults will believe in him!
     
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    I don’t know. Too bizarre of a notion to ever have considered. Why don’t you try it and I’ll let you know how I like it? Deal?
     
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    That nun should have wrapped your knuckles with a yard stick.
     
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    yep, it's immoral for the school to be saying there is or is not a God... same with Santa... leave that up to the parents
     
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    ROTFLMAO !!!!
     
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    So you condone violence because you didn't like something you heard.
     
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    Believe me Catholic nuns have bad Habits and one of those bad nun terrorist habits is rapping knuckles with wooden rulers.

    That first grade nun was the only good decent human nun I ever had. She did not rap our knuckles but the second drake terrorist num more than made up for this good nun.
     
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    Getting fired for telling the truth.

    You sure this isn't a story about a Fox News anchor or Trump administration official?
     
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    Pretty sure that isn't legal or morally right even in Texas.
     
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    Subs can get fired for any or no reason.
     
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    My guess, a real teacher would get scolded, and moved to a higher grade (say 4th or 5th) in the near future.
     
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    If an ******* told my very young child there was no Santa, yeah I’d punch him. He drew first blood. He overstepped his bounds.

    If anyone harms my child, they’re going to pay for it.
     
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    It’s justice.
     
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    Justice would be what follows.
     
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