From the Lynn Item’s Controversial course sours Christmas for some students: “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. That is unless you are in Irene Dalton’s sixth-grade English class at Swampscott Middle School. A number of parents are upset with a lesson plan taught by Dalton in her English class. Parent Diana Travascio said she was caught off-guard when her child came home last Monday and informed her there was no Santa Claus. ‘She came in and said Mrs. Dalton told us there is no Santa Claus and what else have you been lying about,’ she said.” [Hat tip to Mark Schwartz for the link]
Now Hearing- Dave Matthews Band – Crash Into Me
- Bruce Springsteen – Quarter to Three
- Santana – No One to Depend On
- The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Do You Wanna Get Heavy?
- The Flaming Lips – Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell
- The Beatles – A Day in the Life
- Bob Dylan – If Not for You
- The Beatles – Money (That's What I Want)
- Sufjan Stevens – Vito’s Ordination Song
- Tom Waits – Big Black Mariah
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Sixth grade? Sheesh, doesn’t that seem a little late to still believe in the Big Guy [Santa]?
parents all across swampscott had to get on their knees and finally tell their children the truth about the tooth fairy and the easter bunny… - which will probably ultimately lead to the truth about “mommy’s candle drawer” and “daddy’s catalog chest”… - it’s a disaster of epic proportions…