Santa hat-wearing bus driver nearly loses job

Santa hat-wearing bus driver nearly loses job
Ordered to stop wearing it on school route because parent complained

A Santa hat-wearing school bus driver on Long Island, N.Y., has won the right to keep wearing his festive headgear, Newsday reported.

Kenneth Mott, who keeps a long, white beard, almost lost his job after a parent called the bus management to complain. Mott, who has worn the red and white hat every Christmas since he started with the Bauman & Sons bus company five years ago, was ordered to stop wearing the hat because a child didn't believe in Santa Claus and was bothered by the hat.

"I said, 'What, are you kidding me?'" Mott recalled. "I thought it was a big joke," Newsday reported.

However, after Mott told other parents he might be fired for wearing the hat, supervisors changed their stance and said he could continue to wear the hat.

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Now don't get me wrong. Santa Claus is not a popular figure with me but all this I'm going to control others with the "I'm offended" political correctness garbage has gone way too far. People getting fired, sued and generally harassed is not what this nation has been about. You would think that they were talking about something that was going to cause severe physical or mental damage to the populace. People go nuts over a Santa Claus hat, Christmas trees, nativities and such but say and do nothing at all over the serious things like pornography in public and the killing of babies.

Fortunately for the bus driver it turned out good in the end but he should never have had to go through any of this at all.