I think the whole point is, it was not her place to overstep the bounds of either the established lesson plan or the instilled teachings of these kids' families. She's a sub! Even if a child asked her about Santa, she should have deferred the query and left her own agenda out of it entirely. Anyone who has worked in education will tell you, it is simply not a teacher's or staffmember's place to override the personal beliefs of a student and his/her family-should teachers go about telling their charges there's no God, no Jesus, no truth to their religious teachings? Of course not and this is no different. What if you practiced Wicca and a teacher told a class all witches and pagans will burn in hell? That woman should be let go or at the very least, censured and sent to sensitivity training.
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