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<blockquote data-quote="Warrior Poet" data-source="post: 2791918" data-attributes="member: 1057"><p>Without knowing the context it's hard to know how to respond about the teacher, though my initial inclination is that it's not the teacher's job to clarify that particular myth, but should be the parent's job. I'd say the teacher perhaps should have said something along the lines of, "I'm not an expert, so you should ask your parents. In the meantime, practice your damn scales, you little ingrates!"</p><p></p><p>Perhaps I'm not cut out for teaching. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> </p><p></p><p>That being said, I also think the other side of this is the modern phenomenon of Protect Children At All Costs And Preserve Their Egos So That They Don't Ever Ever Ever Get Upset And Will Live Perfect Lives And Always Be Happy Forever And Ever. Which strikes me as poor parenting.</p><p></p><p>The right course of action was probably somewhere in the middle: teacher says "Go ask your mom and/or dad," mom and/or dad say, "Santa Claus is real and if you ever believe otherwise your pets will die mysterious deaths," or "Santa Claus is a story told to invoke the spirit of Christmas and not the sort of claptrap rational people believe in," or "Santa Claus is as real as you need him to be in the stage of life you are in, and just because something is mythological doesn't mean it isn't true, and also means you don't necessarily have to interpret it according to the strictest terms."</p><p></p><p>Then again, perhaps I'm also not cut out for parenting. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> </p><p></p><p>Warrior Poet</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warrior Poet, post: 2791918, member: 1057"] Without knowing the context it's hard to know how to respond about the teacher, though my initial inclination is that it's not the teacher's job to clarify that particular myth, but should be the parent's job. I'd say the teacher perhaps should have said something along the lines of, "I'm not an expert, so you should ask your parents. In the meantime, practice your damn scales, you little ingrates!" Perhaps I'm not cut out for teaching. ;) That being said, I also think the other side of this is the modern phenomenon of Protect Children At All Costs And Preserve Their Egos So That They Don't Ever Ever Ever Get Upset And Will Live Perfect Lives And Always Be Happy Forever And Ever. Which strikes me as poor parenting. The right course of action was probably somewhere in the middle: teacher says "Go ask your mom and/or dad," mom and/or dad say, "Santa Claus is real and if you ever believe otherwise your pets will die mysterious deaths," or "Santa Claus is a story told to invoke the spirit of Christmas and not the sort of claptrap rational people believe in," or "Santa Claus is as real as you need him to be in the stage of life you are in, and just because something is mythological doesn't mean it isn't true, and also means you don't necessarily have to interpret it according to the strictest terms." Then again, perhaps I'm also not cut out for parenting. ;) Warrior Poet [/QUOTE]
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