Should this be happening at school?

Savvy_Sue

FatVonD wrote: »

Socks down trousers must be the boy equivalent of balloons up jumper to the girls and we've all done that, haven't we? (Or was that just me?!)

yes, but why did the boys have their socks in their hands? for singing practice? Do they have to do singing in bare feet these days? Where's the confused smiley when you need it?

Zoetoes

January20 wrote: »

Yes it was a sarcastic post but I'm a teacher and I don't have a son but I blooming well know a thing or two about boys!

I'm sick and tired of people always criticising, doubting teachers and being ready to publically flog them for daring to disagree with parents or even simply for following school rules.

And post 15 really implied that if the teacher had no chidren herself then she knew little about children!

I take your point.

As a parent to 2 boys I also know a thing or 2 about them, and they do just find things about willies and bums funny, it's harmless as far as I'm concerned but I suppose as a teacher you have to take into account the different reactions from different parents, some of them overreactions!

jodie114

sorry, but lol @ the singing in bare feet!
Its because they are not allowed in the hall in shoes(in case it marks) and socks are dangerous if they slip.
Thanks everyone, mainly makes me realide he is normal, just needs to reign it in a bit in school.

Dorastar

jodie114 wrote: »

sorry, but lol @ the singing in bare feet!
Its because they are not allowed in the hall in shoes(in case it marks) and socks are dangerous if they slip.
Thanks everyone, mainly makes me realide he is normal, just needs to reign it in a bit in school.

:eek: HAving read that I would be now be more concerned about the bare feet in the hall issue!!!:eek: Have never come across such a weird decision - what would happen if they trod on a stray staple from a wall display? Our site manager groans everyday about our precious hall floors but he cleans them and then strips and re-polishes them both in school holidays. Am going to suggest it at my school, I know what the likely response is going to be:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

January20

Zoetoes wrote: »

I take your point.

As a parent to 2 boys I also know a thing or 2 about them, and they do just find things about willies and bums funny, it's harmless as far as I'm concerned but I suppose as a teacher you have to take into account the different reactions from different parents, some of them overreactions!

Yes very good point! And also there are also cultural/ religious difference/ expectations to take into account.

Oh actually I agree with the whole of your post

meritaten

January20 wrote: »

Yes it was a sarcastic post but I'm a teacher and I don't have a son but I blooming well know a thing or two about boys!

I'm sick and tired of people always criticising, doubting teachers and being ready to publically flog them for daring to disagree with parents or even simply for following school rules.

And post 15 really implied that if the teacher had no chidren herself then she knew little about children!

well to be frank - if you havent got children then you DONT know what they are like at home versus school do you? you KNOW what you need to know to teach them. not how to raise them - a different matter entirely!!

and this is why Parents get bloody fed up with teachers thinking they know best!

you are so patronising January its unbelievable! It's your posts which which turned this thread into a Teacher V Parent debate!
The OP had said nothing to criticise or doubt the teacher much less verbally flog them!

Take your prejudices and start your own thread - and let this get back to the nice thread it was!
(I do hope you are not teaching my grandkids btw)

Madmel

January20 wrote: »

I don't know how old you are but I think the things that were "acceptable" in the past ie teachers turned a blind eye to, are often now not deemed appropriate anymore. For instance, when I was a girl, boys in my school used to pinch the developping chest of girls for fun. Teachers would routinely do nothing about it, eventhough it wasn't nice for the girls. Today, quite rightly, it would be seen as very, very wrong.

You say that you are a teacher. I am also an experienced teacher and find that typos or spelling mistakes like this make you out to look slapdash and let our profession down in the eyes of others.

To return to the OP's question: I think that the school has been heavy-handed in its punishment. However, as a parent too, I think that it is the responsibility of the parent to educate the child in such matters. Schools often do not get things right; in DD2's primary school, I have informed them that I have talked to DD2 about puberty, periods and babies using the correct terminology, which has slightly surprised them. DD1 left the school in July to go to secondary school and at the age of 11 already has periods. The Head of the primary school is stunned by this as she thinks it happens much later :eek:.

I think a compromise is needed here. Parents need to take some responsibility for ensuring their children receive honest answers to their questions, but schools also need to realise that children are maturing more quickly than their parents, and they need to bring their programme of sex education forward so that it is more relevant. Punishing the children is completely the wrong way to deal with it.

January20

Madmel wrote: »

You say that you are a teacher. I am also an experienced teacher and find that typos or spelling mistakes like this make you out to look slapdash and let our profession down in the eyes of others.

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And I find that patronising posts like this make you sound very stuck up and petty! And frankly I hope you are more tolerant of your pupils' mistakes.

Yes, it was a typo, in a text written in haste, at the end of a long day and not re-read. But at the moment, I am an internet user, posting in my own time and I don't have to prove how professional I am to anybody and certainly not to you.

English is also my second language. So leave me and my typos alone! Is that perfect English enough for you?

Savvy_Sue

jodie114 wrote: »

sorry, but lol @ the singing in bare feet!
Its because they are not allowed in the hall in shoes(in case it marks) and socks are dangerous if they slip.

:eek: oh honestly! What's the point of having a floor within a school that you can't walk on it in shoes? Do all the teachers wander round in bare feet too? I never heard anything so ridiculous in my life - and truly, I think they are asking for trouble if they have boys standing around with socks in their hands, OF COURSE they are going to stuff them down their trousers at that age! pretty much any age, in fact ...

Heart_Shaped_Diamond

January20 wrote: »

English is also my second language. So leave me and my typos alone! Is that perfect English enough for you?

Actually, it should read "My typo's and I," :rotfl::p.

Sorry! I couldn't help myself...