she should not be a teacher if she is going to crush kids spirits in one fowl swoop! – this job of deciding when kids should know is up to parents not a substitute teacher – her job is to teach them the curriculum not anything else!

She sure crossed the lines !
I’m curious how the principal thinks that parents can take appropriate steps to maintain the childhood innocence of the holiday season after the teacher did her story in the way she did

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  • • Ellen replied
    • 25 Nov 2019 , 5:13 am

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  And no my kids don’t think Santa is real except for my youngest but it’s not exactly clear to me what she believes as she’s mostly non verbal. She has Down syndrome and when she sings for example a song about Halloween the ghosts are totally real for her. Sometimes I wish I could read her mind.

If you ruin the magical parts of my kid’s childhood I may or may not ruin your ability to eat solid foods

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  • • Ellen replied
    • 25 Nov 2019 , 8:21 am

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  Hahaha, lol !

It wasnt their place to have Said it to the child

That’s so wrong! Those poor kids

I have an 18 year old and a 6 yr old. This year Santa is writing the eldest a letter to say he is now too old to be getting presents from Santa, just so the youngest still has a few years left

I don’t think she should be getting any work in any school from now on! She may have been having a bad day, but that’s no reason to destroy children like that! I would be horrified and would would work hard to convince my children that she was lying and that magic is real as are all the other things she destroyed

this person should not be working with young children! what a horrible person to do that to kids!! i hope she never gets to work in a primary school again!

I would be furious

That is so wrong! It is not up to teachers what the kids and their parents choose to believe in at home. This is gonna be so hard to turn around, I feel sorry for those kids

This teacher should have known that this is not part of her role as all families have different beliefs and traditions.

up to the parents not the teacher

Yeah, this should really be up to parents.

This is so not the role of the teacher !
One could wonder if the teacher was taught any child development psychology. She should have known that the primary school years are known as the magical years.

Definitely not a teachers place to tell kids something like this. Sure, we’re all entitled to our opinions, but sometimes they’re best kept to yourself.

We don’t encourage any of the stories. If our children choose to believe because they hear about it, then so be it. I wouldn’t ruin it for other children though, that is a strange thing to do.

as a teacher I would never think of breaking the dream and magic of Christmas – it is not the role of the teacher. It is up to parents when they tell their children about these things.

Children learn soon enough that there is no magic in life – if they want to believe it let’s indulge them

I would be so angry if that was my children! Let kids be kids and have some magic in their lives while they are young and full of wonder !

That’s pretty shocking – I’d be peeved if I found out this happened to my kid. The magic of thinking those things were real still give me happy memories 🙂 Honestly don’t know how you keep the truth from them though. Kids talk. Maybe it’s a sign of the times. Our 5 year old has been asking us if Santa is real. We are Christian, so prefer the kids understand why our family celebrates Christmas (the birth of Jesus), so we decided to answer with more truth around Santa… the likes of ‘well, he was a good man who lived many years ago who would secretly give gifts, named Saint Nicholas, and that today people dress up to remember him and the lovely things he did’. He seems very accepting of this and we feel good for not lying haha

Poor things, I can imagine their faces full of disappointment and sadness.