Oh to be Cosmopolitan
In the wonderful advanced society that is Europe they like to tell us in America how un-cultured we are. They like to tell us how backward we are. The American left looks to them as role models. They are trying to make our society in their image.
If you are under 12 please do not read this post. (OK not many people read it anyway and I suspect none of them are under 12. A teacher decided it was it was his/her job to inform young children of the true nature of Santa. (See it here)
Now each one of us with children have to decide how we will deal with the Jolly old elf with our children. To have a teacher take that out of our hands is out of bounds. Similar things have happened in our schools. Recently a school in California decided to give a much too advanced survey to young children about sexual thoughts without the parents knowledge.
The problem here is there is a thought persuasion that believes they and they alone know what is best for our society as a whole but especially our children. It is called liberalism and is ruled by moral relativism. They believe in the village as the vehicle to raise children. Conservatives believe it takes a family to raise a child.
OK I will concede that outing Santa will not scar a child long term. That is not the bad part of this story. The bad part is that the educational establishment thinks they are capable of deciding remotely how we should raise our children. This is why religious private schools are growing and the home schooling movement is growing.
I cherish my children's love of Santa (although the little one won't sit on his lap) and I will miss it when that period of my life is over.
posted by GipperBlog @ 9:13 PM
2 Comments:
i'm not sure i see the connection between european culture critiquing american culture, public schools and our children, and liberalism.
my son just started kindergarten in our neighborhood public school and my wife is an elementary teacher in our public school system. she nor any of the teachers at her school would never "out" santa claus. just because one teacher feels it is his/her duty to expose kids to the "truth" about christmas does not necessarily mean that liberalism, europe, or public schools are to blame.
in fact when i write that it almost makes it all sound quite humerous.
shalom,
jonathon
The connection is that in my opinion and of course this is just my opinion that people on the extreme left tend to see themselves as the ultimate judge of right and wrong for children above that of parents.
Of course the majority of teachers would not do such a thing. Most teachers do not see it as their place. The fact that this person felt it his/hers is what makes it outrageous. The entire point is that it is the place of parents to determine how Santa is handled and no one elses.
No I do not believe that all teachers nor all people of the left would do this. The link to European culture is that Europe tends to be much more left leaning than the US and tends to be much more more secular, although religion does not factor into this story.
Generalizatons are valid to look at trends and of course are never intended to include all people of a grou, that is why they are generalizations.
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