Reply #23: As a parent, I would prefer to have a choice in how that gets revealed.

[Lerkfish]

While I look forward to next year, when i think our son will realize what's going on, I also think I'd be upset for a teacher to enlighten him without my permission.
For one thing, it needs to be handled sensitively and it need to come from us, since we have been supporting the idea for all this time.

now, in abstract, I wish this society did not start this thing in the first place, it makes ending it at the appropriate time and in the appropriate way burdensome. But so is knowing how and when to explain sex, so its part of parenting.

However, even though I would have had a heated call to the principal if this happened at my son's school, there's no way I would try to reconvince him there is a santa claus. I would take this opportunity to try to explain the whole reason for the mystique of the merry elf.