Reply #15: Even at DU [View All]

there are rarely posts about all the great teachers doing their jobs every day, but I can count on finding a post about some atrocity almost daily.

The "Santa" question is not a question for teachers to answer. In the years I taught younger kids, I had some who still believed and some who didn't; it honestly never seemed to be an issue. I never had kids ask me, and I didn't have them trying to burst others' "Santa bubbles," either.

I remember so clearly, in my own childhood, the day I boasted to my grandma that there "is no Santa or Easter Bunny." I remember her horrified response: "Who told you that?" My mom, because I finally came out and asked her. I think it was a lot harder on my mom and grandma than it was on me.

Teachers are supposed to leave those kinds of questions to parents; many thousands of them have this year, as in every other year. "Some teacher" is one small needle in that haystack.