I Learned it in First Grade: Holy War

Monday, April 2, 2007

Holy War

"She started it...she told me Santa wasn't real so my sister punched her in the stomach."

These girls (and their sisters) walk to and from school together everyday. This incident happened on the way to school one morning. One family is Jewish and their mother had let them in on the Santa Claus secret. The other family is Christian and their family takes Santa seriously. I didn't know what to say when she asked if the other girl was telling the truth so I told her we would talk about it later. Lucky for me she didn't try to follow up on it.

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