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Saturday, December 23, 2006

Keep hat, Keep job

Fox News

And a school bus driver on Long Island who refused to take off his Santa hat after a parent complained will get to keep his job after all. 65-year-old Kenneth Mott has been wearing the hat during the holidays for five years. But this year a parent claimed her child was bothered by the hat. Mott's supervisors told him to lose it — he said no — and told the other parents he was probably going to be fired.

That's when Commack school district superintendent James Feltman said the hat could stay — since it wasn't a religious object. Mott said of the uproar, "I thought it was a big joke."

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