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Teachers of young children keep a lot of secrets. My colleague in kindergarten once had a little guy bring a bad toy school. He was waving it around saying, ‘It’s a light sabre. ZING! ZING!’ I was a new teacher at the time and I asked, ‘what do you do when something like that happens?’ She said, ‘I told him to take it home and sneak it back into his mommy’s room and he wouldn’t get in trouble.’ I questioned that. Should we tell a kid to keep a secret from his parents?? This teacher had been te