Christmas at the Jolly household
...teacher, Geneta Codner, was reading a story about the Tooth Fairy on Monday and the class started discussing what was real and what was not, said district spokesman Joe Donzelli. The subject of Santa then came up, and the teacher started questioning parts of his story -- How could a fat...man fit down a chimney? How could reindeer fly around the world in one night? -- and told the children that wasn't possible.
"It's all been blown out of proportion," Codner said Tuesday. "I'm sorry [parents] think I meant it that way. We were just having a discussion. I don't know where all this hurt came from." She said none of the children acted upset or sad during class. But Jolly and others beg to differ.
"How do you destroy a 6-year-old like that?" demanded Pam Sturt, whose son Bradley is in D.J.'s class and said the teacher also made it clear the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny are not real. "Kids don't believe in enough things already."
Ft. LAuderdale Sun-Sentinel Dec.03.03
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Heartbroken
photo link: Sandra Jolly cradles her son Daniel Jolly, 6, who came home upset Monday after his teacher at A.C. Perry Elementary in Miramar told the class there was no Santa Claus.
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the "sacredness" of sex
Two New Zealand church leaders have attacked a Christmas safe-sex advertising campaign depicting a trio of jeans-wearing men with packets of condoms in their back pockets as Three Wise Men.
One News NZ Dec.09.03
