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Saugus school superintendent receives death threats after Santa dispute, board member says

By Jaime Lutz

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  December 22, 2011

The superintendent of schools in Saugus has received death threats over his order -- which he later reversed -- banning Santa Claus from visiting local schools, a school committee member said. School superintendent Richard Langlois canceled a long-held tradition of firefighters dressing like Santa and visiting schools because he believed it conflicted with a policy banning the celebration of religious holidays in public schools. But on Monday, he reversed this decision, allowing Santa to make his regularly scheduled trips.

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