A school has been forced to apologise to parents after a teacher falsely told her class that Father Christmas wasn’t real.
The stand-in teacher at Hill View Primary School in Bournemouth, Dorset made the blunder while her class of 10 and 11-year-olds were making Christmas cards on Wednesday.
The festive faux pas is said to have generated quite the scene as the Year Six pupils left the school questioning their parents to see if what she’d said was correct.
The school later that day emailed a letter to parents apologising profusely for the upset caused to the children by the Santa slur.
They said the teacher in question would not be returning to the school and they were deeply disappointed by her actions, but parents are still baffled why the primary school teacher would want to ruin Christmas.
The letter said that they were aware that whilst making Christmas cards, a supply teacher told the Year 6 children that Father Christmas was not real.
The school said that they apologise for any upset that it may have caused to the parents and their children and that they would be contacting the supply agency about the matter.
They asked everyone to accept their sincere apologies and thanked them for their understanding in the matter.
A follow-up letter that was sent said that just to update everyone regarding the incident with the supply teacher, the supply agency was spoken to and that particular supply teacher would not be coming back to Hill View and that as a school they sincerely apologise for this and the supply agency also sends their apologies.
It said, thank you for your comments and emails which have been taken on board and that they could assure everyone that the supply teacher would not be returning to Hill View.
One parent, who didn’t want to be named, said that Christmas was a stressful time of the year, and the last thing they needed was the school ruining it by taking away the magic. They said, what teacher in their right mind would say that to young children? And how did it even come up? The mind boggles.
A spokesperson for Hill View Primary School said that they wrote to parents to let them know what had happened in a class that was being led by a supply teacher.
That was no blunder, it was just a spiteful unnecessary comment. Children have dreams the same as adults do, so why spoil it for them?
It seems that teachers are toxic towards children now. Perhaps parents should be homeschooling their children so that they’re not brainwashed by teachers with an agenda.
Christmas is a magical time of the year. I didn’t tell my children that there was a Father Christmas, I explained that he was a guy dressed in an ensemble, but that it was still an extremely important time of the year and why it was a very important time of the year. My children were delighted that I had bought the gifts and taken the time to wrap them with love, but everybody is different and believes in different things. However, we teach our children not to lie, yet we lie to them all the time by telling them that there’s a Father Christmas that comes down the chimney and the Tooth Fairy that leaves them money for a tooth, then they find out years later that they were lied to, when we told them that it’s bad to lie, but each to their own.
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