I agree with your post, I think the teacher should have voiced her objections to the school board, not the children.
But this doesn't really have anything to do with what I said.
I am questioning the people who compare Santa Claus to the myths we freely teach our children, yet these same people don't want anyone to actually say Santa is a myth.
I understood precisely what you were saying and there is no comparison.
Exactly what makes you think that it is your responsibility, or, right to do so?
That level of counseling or what-have-you is reserved for the PARENTS! Not for some self-proclaiming faux-intellectual. No one asked the idiot teacher, or you for that matter, to believe anything contrary to their individual belief structure. But, you seem to find it totally acceptable to foist off your allegedly superior belief structure on others, particularly children against the desires of the parents. This is not only wrong, it is arrogant. It is reflective of a culture of the intelligensia and the old soviet "nomenklatura" thinking. Sorry Dame, you views are "nekulturney"
Semper Fi
Santa is not a myth. Santa is real. There is no person named Santa, but there is a reality called Santa, a wonderful reality that was handed down from my grandparents to my parents to me, that I'm handing down to my children and that I hope they'll hand down to their children. I don't look at kids "no longer believing in Santa" as finding out that their parents were lying to them, I see it as having something wonderful, and real, entrusted to them.