Should Santa be Allowed to Come to School?

In Fort Worth ISD, district officials have just said that Santa and other Hoiday characters can not be in the classroom while the teacher is teaching. They can, however be anywhere else in the school. My field site classroom is doing a lesson on Christmas and is actually doing lessons including an elf. If our district passed that vote, we would no longer be able to teach that. I do no believe that parents would want to take extra time out of their already busy schedules to take their children to a holiday party either early before school or late after school. Maybe if he officials jus set allotted dates where holiday characters could visit, that would solve the problem.