I agree with you about telling kids the truth. I think it should be done just before they start kindergarten.
I was devastated when I found out. I told my daughter early.
No one past the age of 10 thinks Santa Claus is real…unless they have retarded parents.
Shoot maybe we should take sex ed out of school and keep telling these kids that storks deliver babies and young boys will go blind if they touch themselves.
Fairfax County, Virginia has similar rules from what I remember. Teachers were prohibited from saying “Merry Christmas”, but one Spanish teacher snuck in a feliz navidad in a note.
A simple solution is to only sing Christmas carols written by non-Christians. Here are a few examples:
Some feminist is jealous because “Baby It’s Cold Outside” sure worked for Dino Crocetti, popularly known as Dean Martin. The man was married thrice & had 8 kids, along with adopting his third wife’s daughter.
Don’t hear any of these miserable whiny crybabies complaining about “artists” who use terms like (the b word) or “ho” to describe women, but a 1940s song from a very successful musician, comedian & actor is date rape.
Feh! They’re probably enjoying their own company with a copy of “Fifty Shades of Grey” as I type this.