what a MEAN teacher!

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here how can someone DO that to small children? How spiteful of her.

(FC related. kids are in bed right? so safe to open!!)

they sacked a teacher for telling the truth!!
I think there must be more to it

She wasn't sacked. She just won't be invited back to that school to do supply. I think it was misguided of her and, as a parent, I would have been a bit miffed tbh.

She was very misguided and made a big mistake. The parents, quite rightly, are not happy. I wouldn;t have been happy.

Teacher hasn't been sacked at all. She was doing supply work and the school ahve imply not asked her to come and work for them again.

Hopefully the teacher has understand why what she did was out f rorder and will think before speaking out in future.

That is really mean.

LOLOLOLOLOL

I'm sorry but I have a vision of one of the Little Britain team doing a classroom sketch. Or that scene from the Addams family where Morticia has to get a job and she gets one in a kindergarten where she tells the story of Hansel and Gretel from the witch's point of view.

She doesn't sound er... suited to the job, does she?

no big deal to me. But then again I'm a big meanie

it is up to the parents to decide if they want their children to know the truth.... notsome misguided teacher

I would be very angry if that had happened to one of my DC

I think the problem with a few supply teachers is that they are supply teachers because they cannot get a permament job, due to being cr@p at teaching.

However that is not true of all supply teachers. The other day the school I worked at had a lovely gentleman who had been travelling and had a job starting after Christmas. I am not a teacher, but I could tell the kids were really enjoying their lesson and he was imaginative.

First of all, she wasn't sacked - she had been hired for one day, so clearly isn't ridiculous to describe it as being 'sacked'. Secondly, we don't of course, know the full story. Perhaps a child in the class had mentioned the fact that Father Christmas doesn't exist. Perhaps an argument had broken out in class about it. The children were 7 for god's sake! It doesn't take much to work out that at least half the class probably realised already. Certainly all those with older siblings!

But of course, it makes good copy doesn't it? - Nasty mean teacher disabusing children of the Father Christmas fairy tale.

Does make you wonder though, would there be any other job where you get roasted for telling the truth?

I think people have really over-reacted to this. Ds1 is in Y2 and he came home yesterday and said that lots if children in his class (the ones with older siblings) said that Santa wasn't real and it was the mummies and daddies getting the presents.

It is, as findtheriver says, a very strange scenario where all adults are expected to collude in deceiving children.

Agree with findtheriver

but isn't that a choice for parents to make?

also agree with findtheriver