At least the Teacher is smarter then the Note sent Home

So the Elf on the Shelf is present within my son's kindergarten class.  However, the elf, named Presents, is not reporting back to Santa as normally used in the original intent of the product.
He does mischievous things each night around the classroom and the children have to determine what he did and then that afternoon a writing team is chosen to write a note to Presents asking him what behaviours not to repeat because they aren't appropriate for school.

This I think is a brilliant idea.  It gets the children to observe their surroundings, correctly identify appropriate behaviour versus not appropriate behaviour and works on their writing skills as they send messages to the elf to advise him on what better choices in behaviour he should make and what he can and cannot do.

Though the note home does not state anything of the sort.  It states the elf, Presents, is there to report back to Santa who is being naughty and who is being caring, sharing and honest.

So you can see why I had a lot of misgivings about the introduction of the Elf on the Shelf into the classroom.

They really need to work on their written communication skills, because they have failed several times now sending notes home that say one thing when they really mean another.