Texas teacher tells kindergartners Santa isn’t real - all hell breaks loose

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60. People so overthink some things

My oldest believed in santa only until she was 4. She's a smart one. The little one is almost 4 and is in full belief mode.

I wouldn't go to any extremes or outright lie to them. If they ask is Santa is real (as the older one did at 4), I ask, "What do you think?" She said she thought it was probably pretend, and I said, that's right but it's a lot of fun and you can keep playing the game if you want. And she did for a few years after that.

It's just a bit of fun.

I wouldn't like it if a teacher made a big issue of it and told the whole class Santa isn't real just because she had an opinion about the issue and thought parents shouldn't do the whole Santa thing, but on the other hand if my daughter had asked a teacher instead of me, I don't see why it would be an issue if the teacher had told her the truth instead of me. I wouldn't want the teacher to outright lie to my child either. I'd say either gently tell the truth, or else tell the child to ask me, but either seems like an acceptable way to handle it.