Teacher tells first graders the truth. Everyone gets mad.
Funny that more people get upset if a teacher tells kids that Santa doesn’t exist, than if a teacher tells them that God doesn’t exist.
You’re a single dimensional fool.
Teacher told a truth that was not hers to tell.
Again the school intrudes in the parent child bond and sets itself above the parents. Inexcusable to destroy a child’s belief system rather than allowing them to reason it out themselves.
Almost like teaching them about sexual practices in great detail for sex acts that they wouldn’t have knowledge of, interest in or need for until they are much much older if ever. True but very very inappropriate & damaging.
This is something for parents to decide, not some m-f lackey of the Teacher’s Union!!!
It is a pretty well established tradition in much of the world. Not her place to undermine that.
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Teacher tells first graders the truth. Everyone gets mad.
Yes, a teacher told children the truth and parents absolutely have a right to be angry. I personally want the teacher to be fired and to never be around other people’s children again.
So, why is there a problem telling children the truth, I am sure you wonder? Well, what other truths would you also like to have this woman tell the children? I am sure without even listing them you can come up with a laundry list of topics that would be criminal for this teacher to tell 6 year olds. Should we tell 6 year old all that is “true” in this world? Even better, why stop at telling them. There are lots of videos out there. Why not just show them a video or two or ten of all that is “true” in this world?
Did you ever meet an adult that was shown or was exposed to these truths when they were 6? I have and one of them told me ‘A child should never have to see what I saw when I was a child’. In short, your snipe about telling children the truth is a straw man argument and is not valid for this topic.
There is something to be said about using myth to strengthen and instilling in our children an example of what it means to be good, caring adults when they grow up. Using ‘myth’ with children is a very powerful way to teach them altruism and caring for your society and community. That is what the myth of Santa Clause is all about.
However, your one line, snipe reply says much about you, in my opinion. I infer from it that you really do not care for myth much in the same way this horrible woman substitute teacher does not. In that vein, I feel sorry for you that you decided to post this one line snipe about this story.
JoMa