A mom is threatened with a lawsuit when her son tells classmates Santa isn't real?

These people have too much time and too much money available to them. I am glad to see she has people on her side who are willing to help her out.

These kids are the ones who grow up and tell the people in the ticket line, the ending of the movie. Off with their heads!

People like that have obviously solved their major issues and have nothing better to do. Well done to the realist!

According to the article, one of the charges being brought against the mother is “facilitating the loss of innocence of child wonderment”. Is this a violation of any law? Could an adult atheist be brought to trial for facilitating the loss of innocence of adult wonderment?

This is the perfect case for Attorney-at-Law Jackie Chiles!

These idiots really do have way too much spare time on their hands.

Hopefully a judge would kick this case out of his court on the grounds that it’s too ridiculous for words.

The mother didn’t tell the kids, her child told the kids. Kids do things like this, we can’t control everything they say. Did this mom try to warn her kid not to share the information that Santa doesn’t exist? I think parents should do that. Suing her is ridiculous, but if she made no effort to protect the story of Santa for the other kids, I do feel she was wrong. At the same time, the parents who want their kids to believe in Santa really screwed themselves by making this an issue. They should have just said Santa doesn’t go to that boys house, but he comes to ours.

There are so many ridiculous lawsuits. I once read someone tried to sue the TV network that had the show Fear Factor, because an episode was so disturbing it made him sick. I don’t think the case wound up going anywhere in the end.

Wait, hold on a sec – Santa isn’t real?

I am so bummed to hear that.

Will you be suing Fluther?

Maybe she could offer to settle by screening Miracle on 34th Street for the class, and she’ll provide the popcorn.

Yeah, it’s clearly a ridiculous suit to any rational adult – and how she can sue the mother is beyond me – but if kids can be suspended from school for biting a Pop Tart™ “in the shape of a gun”, or pointing a finger at a child and saying, “Bang!” (without a clear and immediate threat involved, which might take on different meanings in a high school setting, for example) it’s clear that common rules of rationality do not apply to public schools and the inmates thereof.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out; I do not have much faith in a sensible outcome.

I can think of some things kids said to me in kindergarten and first grade that were somewhat more “facilitating the loss of innocence”. Ranging from “I’m going to kill you” to things I’m not going to repeat here.

Someone should tell the suit-filer what “Ring Around the Rosies” is all about…

Um, but what it seems to me should really happen, is the altering of our system and re-training of our judges so that they dismiss this and other outrageous suits, and recommend the lawyers to the review board. Seems to me that could actually happen if these cases get spread around on the Internet enough that attention is brought to the right places with enough voices.

Oh spare me the stupidity. This society, where everything is a potential lawsuit. Your kid tells another kid there is no Santa, OMG…sue for emotional trauma and PTSD. I guess I should have sued my mother back in 1967 when I walked in on her wrapping my ‘Santa” gifts late one night. lol I should have called CPS to report my mother for cruel and unusual deception towards a child.

The tooth fairy never left me any money. I want 32 retroactive quarters and Interest. Plus $100,000 in damages.

I would sue her back and say she has to pay for all future Christmas gift because my kid now believes in Santa and thinks Santa never came to visit our house because he/she is a horrible and hateful kid because he only went to other kids home and so now my kid will need therapy for the rest of his/her life.

Think of the ramifications of being able to sue someone for stating accepted truths. It might give a whole new argument for teaching creationism. Sure the evidence for evolution is overwhelming, but some people get very upset when told that God did not handcraft each species.

People can “threaten” to sue for anything they want to. However, a prudent lawyer won’t take any case that he feels he won’t win, as he probably doesn’t have time to waste. To me, when I hear any propaganda about someone “threatening to sue” I pay it no mind. I also tend to put more weight in articles from legitimate news sources, like the New York Times, rather than online stuff with vague details.

I’m going to wait and see if this is a hoax.