Christmas and the turth

Looks like you can be fired for telling the truth in school.

I can understand why in some ways, but even if this was malicious, is there anywhere in any code of conduct that teacher is out of order? If the teacher was mistaken, then this is even worse. What happened to verbal and written warnings? It's not as if this was criminal? This sounds no different than being persecuted for denying the existence of god.

Which comes back to Santa. It seems to me that the lies associated with Santa are terrible; we tell lies to children in order to make lives easier for children so that they'll behave themselves for a month or so. This sounds like one of those Taboos of the modern world that Paul Graham was talking about.
And don't argue that this is taking the magic or innocence out of youth. If we wanted children to live in blissful ignorance of the real world we'd tell them about faeries at the bottom of the garden and an all loving omnipotent being. Granted some people still do this, but many don't, isn't it time to stop lying to children about Santa in the same way many parents have stopped telling them about that other bearded omniscient being?

Clearly "you'd better watch out"