‘Sorry, kids but Santa’s not real’: Parents’ fury after primary school teacher tells pupils aged EIGHT that Father Christmas doesn’t exist
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | December 8, 2012 13:13A school teacher has been blasted by furious parents after he told junior school pupils that Santa Claus did not exist as they wrote their letters to him.
The teacher was taking a literacy lesson which involved the children, aged eight and nine, writing a letter to Father Christmas.
During the class he told the youngsters that the man bringing them presents just wasn’t real – and the Year Four pupils were left devastated.
The school in Christchurch, Dorset, has now been met with a stream of complaints from furious parents.
A parent of an eight-year-old child in the class said: ‘He told the children to put their hands over their ears if they did not want Christmas spoilt, so it was not accidental.’
Headteacher Simon Adorian admitted that the teacher had made a mistake following what he described as an ‘awkward exchange with pupils’ after one of them quizzed him over Santa’s existence.
He added that the teacher was ‘mortified’ by what had happened.
‘He is extremely sorry about it, nothing like this has ever happened before, we celebrate Christmas as traditionally as other schools.
Royal Mail has offered some consolation to parents desperately trying to keep the spirit of Christmas alive, with a reminder on their website that letters to Santa must be sent by December 14th at the latest.
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