Friday, October 29, 1999
Teacher reprimanded for Santa tune
BY TANYA ALBERT
The Cincinnati Enquirer
TRENTON — School officials have reprimanded an Edgewood Middle School music teacher who let her students sing a song about Santa Claus making sausage out of reindeer and shooting up his workshop.
The teacher, whose name wasn't being released Thursday, asked the students to bring in music that they liked. As an attempt to get them more involved in music and let them loosen up and have fun, she let the seventh grade students sing the songs on Friday afternoons, Assistant Superintendent Tom York said.
But “The Night Santa Went Crazy” from Weird Al Yankovic, who does musical parodies, went too far, he said.
“I know kids listen to it,” Mr. York said. “But we do want to be careful with what we have in the schoolhouse.”
This is the second time in recent weeks that a Greater Cincinnati school teacher has been disciplined for inappropriate assignments.
Earlier this fall, a Franklin High School teacher was reprimanded after she suggested on a list of topics for daily journal entries that students write about what famous person they would assassinate and how would they do it.
Edgewood Middle School officials didn't know about the Santa Claus song until a parent called them. The woman's son sang the song at the dinner table, she thought it was inappropriate and she called the school, Mr. York said.
He would not comment on how the music teacher was reprimanded.
“It was dealt with,” he said.
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