He told them the truth? And Santa doesn’t have a religious connotation it’s not like he said “Jesus is fake” or something like that. WOW that’s a really stupid reason to fire someone.
Santa doesn’t have religious connotations?
Santa Claus is Saint Nicholas via Dutch (Sinterklaas). Arguably there is a certain element drawn from Germanic paganism, as Christmas supplanted Yule, and may have been influenced by the god Wodan.
As commercialized as it has become, this is still part of Western Christianity.
If a teacher where you live treated Hinduism this was, with 6 year olds, would you take it so lightly?
The difference is that Santa has also become a thing in Japan and Korea and the former is most certainly not a Christian country. Even in Indian malls we have Santa events and such things even though Christmas is strictly a Christian holiday here and nobody else celebrates it. Santa may have had a religious connotation then, but he doesn’t know.
Hinduism doesn’t have an equivalent myth to Santa so it would be impossible for a teacher to do something like this. The way Indian adults encourage children to be good is by telling them that the gods will punish them or demons will take them away if they are bad. So telling kids “actually demons won’t take you away if you don’t eat your breakfast” won’t have the same effect as “Santa isn’t real.”
Teacher who told kids Santa isn’t real has been let go, district superintendent says
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