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
I don'[t see you hee very often anymore. I hope your Christmas was wonderful. Have a happy new year!
It isn't really about responsibility. If parents choose to lie to their children, I am not going to interfere. And if I found myself in a temporary custodial position as a teacher (or daycare worker, or camp counselor), I would choose not to say anything about it. If the curriculum called for it, I would discuss it with whatever entity is in charge.
I am talking about inconsistency right here on Free Republic, not the actions of the teacher.
I have seen people on this thread (I am pinging them) refer to Santa Claus as:
a fairy tale (yet children are not taught that fairy tales are real, they are clearly stories)
a miracle (but miracles are real, Santa Claus is not)
Santa Claus and Jesus are friends (this could obviously lead one to question the existence of Jesus)
Santa Claus is just a story, like Tom Sawyer is a story (children are NOT taught that Tom Sawyer is a real person, and any child who were to believe such would be corrected by his parents and certainly by his teachers)
The story is just a fantasy story (But children are not taught that Lord of the Rings is real, and no one is expected to pretend that Frodo is a real person)
Do your children really believe that fairy tales are real?
I'm curious, because when I was a child, I loved fantasy stories and fairy tales, but I never, EVER actually thought they were real.