Teacher tells kids Santa is 'make-believe'

What????  Santa isn't real???  Who keeps eating the cookies and milk I set out every year????   Nigel, Sydney?????
 
 
Seriously, I think it's the parents call, not a teachers to tell the kids the truth.  Just IMO.

Doesn't she know religion is not to be taught in school? LOL. Reason #4389 that we homeschool. Arrogant teachers who know better than parents what our children "ought to know". Our kids have always known Santa was a nice man who lived a long time ago and gave gifts because he loved Jesus and wanted to set a good example. They also know they are supposed to be quiet about it when the subject comes up around other kids. []

Like the subject of sex, which they are also very savvy about, thanks to farm life, of course they will spill the beans someday. But at least with homeschooling I won't face an entire homeroom of irate parents at the class Christmas party! [sm=eek.gif]

definitly crossing the line, what kinda cold bleepity bleep would want to tell children that anyway!
 
i was always told by my parents that they were santa [8|]

what kinda cold bleepity bleep would want to tell children that anyway

 
Being educated doesn't always mean knowing what's right or being able to function properly in society. I'm an extremely logical guy. And even I give Santa Claus his respect.

I'd be pretty mad at the teacher, it's up to  me when and what to tell them.
My kids always knew by 5th grade, I remember my son cam home from school and looked me in the eye and asked me point blank about Santa. I told him and he started crying and then asked if daddy knew yet!

The only people with more power over a young mind in school than the teacher...are the students! My daughter who's 5 already got the 'Santa isn't real and we don't do Xmas' thing from an Arabic classmate. lol...that was funny...
 
I am proud to say that Mom still out classes all comers when it comes to belief! I simply told her that Santa doesn't mind if some people do not believe in him because it makes his job easier! That's one less toy he has to worry about getting to them!
 
I also covered that there are MANY places in the world where people don't do Xmas but something else, or nothing at all....every place has it's own special days and times of year. I reinterated that Santa doesn't mind at all because it makes his big trip shorter on Xmas eve!
 
She was so relieved but I oculd tell when she mentioned it to me that she didn't really believe what her classmate had told her, lol...she just wanted me to reinforce what she already suspected.

I personally do not subscribe to the Santa myth, I think it can be damaging to children for many reasons. One reason is it creates a distinction between good and bad, which translates into gifts and no-gifts: Good = gifts, Bad = no gifts. There are too many children right here in our country who are severely underprivileged, who literally get nothing for Christmas year after year. I know first hand that they cannot help but think it's because they are bad. Despite my personal belief, I do not think that teachers should be making that choice for the parents. It's WAY overstepping their boundaries. Very bad form...

I have mixed feeling about this, first I don't have a child so I don't know what I would think. The teacher even talking about Santa, real or not, is in the wrong for bringing her beliefs into the classroom and presenting them as fact. However, it shoud be up to the students to decide if they belive or not and the parents to either encourage it or not. The teacher could do the same with christ and tell her students he's not real, but if the student truly belives he's real then it should not affect that student. Still, thoes subject should not come from a public school teacher.

I don't get why people can't just let kids be kids anymore.  Seriously.  They can't believe in Santa because he isn't real.  If they read "Harry Potter" they'll become witches and if they go Trick-or-treating they are devil worshippers in training.  Honestly!

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Like the subject of sex, which they are also very savvy about, thanks to farm life, of course they will spill the beans someday.

 after bieng so busy lately,and with the wife preparing for the holidays,i am beggining to think sex is about as real as santa..lol

My 5 year old is probably getting on the verge of not believing. Once or twice it has come up and my response is "Well, what's the proof that he doesn't?" When she's old enough to encounter someone who can answer that accurately and specifically, taking into account physics and the whole time-space continuum issue, not to mention the potential spiritual aspects and the allowance for undiscovered properties in the universe, then I figure she (and I!) will be able to emotionally handle the response!

This is just one of the reasons why I am determined that if I ever have kids, they will know from the outset that Santa isn't real. They can play along and we'll still have Santa presents, but they'll know they really came from their parents.

When I found out the Easter Bunny wasn't real, I was utterly devastated. I cried. Why would I set one of my own children up for the same disappointment? By the time it came to Santa, I had that horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach that it was impossible for him to exist and I didn't know if my parents were going to deny my assertion or agree with it. I strongly disagree with lying to children and that's exactly what I feel things like Santa and the Easter Bunny are all about.

I'd never break the news to someone else's kid, though. What they choose to do in their households with their kids is up to them and none of my business. The least I could be is sensitive about it. My kids would be under strict instructions not to discuss it with other children. Chances are they would anyway, but that's the lookout of the parents who want to maintain this fantasy with their kids and therefore have to live in constant fear that the fantasy is going to be shattered in situations out of their control before they're ready for it.

But yeah, pretty irresponsible of the teacher to take it into her own hands like that. That I would be pretty unimpressed with, even if my kids already knew.

after bieng so busy lately,and with the wife preparing for the holidays,i am beggining to think sex is about as real as santa..lol

 
Leave it up to a man to make this kind of statement......[]

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This is just one of the reasons why I am determined that if I ever have kids, they will know from the outset that Santa isn't real. They can play along and we'll still have Santa presents, but they'll know they really came from their parents.

When I found out the Easter Bunny wasn't real, I was utterly devastated. I cried. Why would I set one of my own children up for the same disappointment? By the time it came to Santa, I had that horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach that it was impossible for him to exist and I didn't know if my parents were going to deny my assertion or agree with it. I strongly disagree with lying to children and that's exactly what I feel things like Santa and the Easter Bunny are all about.

 
I totally agree.  The deceit and the alienation of poor children in this whole stupid myth are what make me a Santa Hater!!!   We treat it the same way we treat religion in my house.  The kids understand that different people believe different things and that's cool.   Some families believe in Jesus, some believe in Santa - we don't worship either.