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New York teacher tells first-graders Santa Claus doesn't exist, drives kids to tears and their parents into furious anger

Angry parents flocked to the school to demand why their children's imaginations were being attacked by the teacher
UPDATED JAN 20, 2020
(Source : Getty Images)
(Source : Getty Images)

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK: A teacher at a New York City public school reduced first-graders to tears and infuriated their parents after telling the kids earlier this week that Santa Claus is not real, just weeks away from the Christmas holidays. 

The children came face to face with the heartbreaking revelation during a lesson about "convincing" when an unnamed instructor at PS 321 in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood told the five and six-year-olds on Monday, December 2, that Father Christmas did not exist, shattering the students' fantasies about the holidays. 

Not only that, the teacher also apparently told the kids that the tooth fairy was not real too. 

Needless to say, angry parents flocked to the school to demand why their children's imaginations were being attacked by the teacher.

"Santa is very much real and alive, in all parents and children who believe," outraged mother Allison Meyerham told News 12.  

However, now she and other parents have been handed the difficult task of explaining to their kids why the teacher was a "non-believer."

Meyerham added that if their children started suspecting that they were being told lies by their families, it would be emotionally "damaging" to their psyches. 

The principal of the school, Liz Phillips, was forced to write a letter to the angry parents to clarify that the teacher was a substitute. She added that she was extremely upset to hear about what happened and was determined to ensure that such a stunt was never repeated in the future.

"I guarantee you that this substitute will not be in class 1-216 again," wrote the principal to parents, referring to the class by its room number. "I assure you, that we take this very seriously." Phillips added that she was to meet with the educator to "investigate further."

Meanwhile, the parents said that they will have to teach their kids to understand that everyone is entitled to their own thoughts.

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