a bit shocked by teacher

berniesmaster

i was a little shocked today, when my dd and her friend came out from school today a bit upset, saying her new teacher will cut off the tongues of any children who talk when she is talking!!!??? the kids in this class are 6 years old!!
my dd is a little sensitive at the best of times, and certanlty will take things quite literally. Any one else a bit shocked by this??

Janepig

It's the sort of thing I would tell DD so unless I had a problem with the teacher's attitude in general then no, it wouldn't bother me. I'd rather he/she said something like that and had a bit of hush in the classroom than the usual bedlam.

Jxx

lostinrates

I had a teacher who said this when I was about the same age. She told us she'd been a nurse before she was a teacher and she'd sew them back on and our parents wouldn't see her tiny stitiches and would think we were lying if we told. I am a hardy and not overly sensitive 30 year old and I still have nightmares about this, and so perhaps I'm overreacting, but I'd be rather unhappy.

I don't know whether any of my then class mates still have nightmares, I know we all hated her then and were very scared of her. I don't know if she realised how longreaching this threat would be. I like to think she didn't.

lolababy

I would not be offended as long as my daughter was taught well. I think we wrap our children in cotton wool and expect the rest of the world to do also.
Im sure that at six a child would be able to see the funny side if you explained that the teacher was only jocking and would not really do it.

liney

Wouldn't bother me at all, and my son would know she was only teasing him.

sandiep

I would imagine that she hears a lot lot worse in the playground.

Conversation my eldest had in the playground at 6yrs old was about "special kisses when the man lies ontop of the lady".

amilotte

I remember a teacher singing the 'tell tale tit your tongue will be split......' rhyme. I'm 29 now but don't remember taking her seriously back then. I would just explain that that she would not really do it.

jenhug

I wouldn't be happy. Children don't learn when they are afraid. Thats not the way to get respect, she is relying on fear.

I would be confronting this. Would she say the same to an adult? If I said this to anyone on here I am pretty sure I could be arrested for making threats of violence or threatening behaviour.

How dare she?

pollypenny

Only a few days into term and we have two teacher-bashing threads already! :rolleyes:

jenhug

Unfortunately not all teachers are good and kind. Fact of life. We don't have to accept it.

poet123

jenhug wrote: »

I wouldn't be happy. Children don't learn when they are afraid. Thats not the way to get respect, she is relying on fear.

I would be confronting this. Would she say the same to an adult? If I said this to anyone on here I am pretty sure I could be arrested for making threats of violence or threatening behaviour.

How dare she?

What a complete over reaction to a jokey coment made by a teacher in the first few days of a new term. Surely parents :rolleyes:have more to complain about than this?