Story here->UK teacher tells kids truth about Santa
Teacher catches hell for telling 10yo kids that Santa isn't real? As one parent said...
"What gives the school the right to decide when children should know the truth about such a harmless matter when knowing the truth does take away that little bit of magic?"
Seems to me these same people are pretty adamant that schools teach the 'truth' about evolution. So what happens if Johnny wants to believe that Christmas is about baby Jesus? Magical Santas are OK, but Jesus is not? Smurfs, Barney, Teletubbies, cocaine, & illicit, unprotected sex is all going to be part of my magical world and no damn school is allowed to teach otherwise.
No wonder the youth of today are so f'd up.
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Fact is, that schools should stick to reading, writing and arithmetic. Science is simply "what's currently passing for fact" and history is written by the winner, so neither of those are all that reliable and are, in fact, entirely open to debate, if you get right down to it. Hell, not even everyone can agree on the moon landing or the holocaust, so....
Some things should be covered at home, according to that particular family's traditions and beliefs.
Parents hand their kids over to public schools, and a lot of them more or less expect the schools to teach their kids everything they'll need to survive to RAISE them, which is just goddamned lazy parenting, in my opinion.
*there should be a comma between "need to survive" and "to raise them".
Schools should also teach grammar and proofreading. :P
i completely agree. Reading, writing, arithmetic. Give the kids the skills to figure out the rest on their own. Society is raising a moronic successor and we're already reaping the sorrow from it.
I don't think the curriculum needs to be limited to 3 R's, but there's no need to go out of your way to hip-check little kids. "A teacher which we are sad about" is an understatement. Really, what was the purpose of this exercise - providing alibis for the Royal Mail? Last time I checked, Charles Darwin wasn't responsible for any prezzies on the 25th, so drop the evolution bomb on 'em and ask Father Christmas to bring the school a decent teacher.
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