Parents are in an uproar after a teacher in a British primary school told a room of crying seven-year-olds:
"It’s your parents who leave out presents on Christmas Day!"
The substitute teacher at Blackshaw Lane Primary School has been disciplined.
The class of 25 students became rowdy talking about Santa Claus, and the teacher blurted out that he did not exist to try to calm the students. Instead many students started crying.
"My son came home and said that his substitute teacher had told the class that Santa doesn’t exist," one father said. "I thought it was wrong. He was distraught about it. He’s only seven-years-old and it’s part of the magic of Christmas to him."
