School district investigating lack of Christmas spirit in geography class
BY Nina Mandell
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, December 2 2011, 12:02 PM
A teacher in upstate New York is being blasted by parents as the Grinch who stole Christmas after allegedly telling a group of second-graders that there is no Santa Claus.
The Journal-News reported some parents were irate after the unidentified teacher told students that Christmas presents were bought by their parents — not the North Pole’s most beloved inhabitant.
Nanuet Union Free School District superintendent Mark McNeill told The Journal-News his office was investigating.
“This matter is being discussed internally and it would be inappropriate for me to comment further,” he said.
The comments reportedly occurred during a geography class on Tuesday when kids told the teacher they knew where the North Pole was because Santa lives there.
Yet, the upstate teacher wasn’t the only one to burst the long-running story of Santa this week.
Robin Robinson, a news anchor at Fox News Chicago, enraged parents Tuesday night when she announced during a live broadcast that kids should learn early that Santa isn’t real — in order to discourage unrealistic gift expectations.
“Stop trying to convince your kids that Santa is Santa,” she said. “That’s why they have these high expectations. They know you can’t afford it, so what do they do? Just ask some man in a red suit. There is no Santa.”
She issued an apology on Wednesday.
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