Now this is just cruel...

This ..."person" needs coal in their stocking this year... and lots of it.

Theresa Farrisi stood in for Schaeffer'’s regular music teacher one day last week. One of her assignments was to read Clement C. Moore's famous poem, "Visit from Saint Nicholas"” to a first-grade class at Lickdale Elementary School.

"“The poem has great literary value, but it goes against my conscience to teach something which I know to be false to children, who are impressionable,"” said Farrisi, 43, of Myerstown. "“It's a story. I taught it as a story. There'’s no real person called Santa Claus living at the North Pole."”

Farrisi doesn'’t believe in Santa Claus, and she doesn'’t think anyone else should, either. She made her feelings clear to the classroom full of 6- and 7-year-olds, some of whom went home crying.

Schaeffer got off the school bus later that day, dragging her backpack in the mud, tears in her angry little eyes.

"“She yelled at me, '‘Why did you lie?'"” recalled Jamey'’s mother, Elizabeth. "'‘Why didn'’t you tell me Santa Claus died?'"

Sounds like a variation of this.