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If you took your child to see Santa, but the Santa that day was deaf would you let your child see him or would you leave & come back another day?

I'll explain better here since I have limited space to write the whole question with explanation: So say you take your child (if you don't have a child just pretend) to the mall to see the Santa there. You get to the mall and find out on that day the designated Santa is deaf and uses sign language. All children are still welcomed and there are interpreters there to help with hearing children to communicate. Would you be okay with that and still let your child participate or would you tell your child they can't see Santa and leave to just come back on a different day when the designated Santa isn't deaf?
I feel like for most people this is a dumb question, but there's this event that I volunteer for that's at a huge mall. Two days out of the season there is a deaf Santa and it's heavily advertised so parents know. All the other days it's a "normal" Santa. You would think people wouldn't have an issue with it, but there are so many complaints from parents and a lot of them are opposed to their child being exposed to deaf people/ a deaf Santa... Personally I don't understand why anyone would have a problem with it, but I'm hard of hearing so maybe I'm biased? So I was just wondering how people on here feel about it and if they would feel opposed by it what their reasoning for it is just so I can understand better.
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SW-User
learning sign would be nice
teach them to ask whatever in sign language
NaturallyPeculiar · 26-30, F
@SW-User That's something we do as well. We teach them a bit of sign language and there's other activities like games and crafts. Most volunteers can both sign and speak so it's not a problem, but apparently a lot of parents who don't know anything about the deaf community/dead culture still oppose it and complain. One year this lady got mad and threatened to never come back to the mall...