A harsh punishment or fair enough?

dizsiebubba

But you say A & B were playing...when the teacher spoke to A were they upset? Had they believed it? or was A aware it was pretend??

I run a Brownie pack (age 7-10) and I can't believe any of them would think it was real unless it had been made on PC and even then they don't really have the skills to make it look official enough...

Spendless

Child A realised the invite wasn't official. Yes, it was done in school time though not during lessons.

londonsurrey

Spendless wrote: »

Child A realised the invite wasn't official. Yes, it was done in school time though not during lessons.

Did Child A realise it straight away?

dizsiebubba

Spendless wrote: »

Child A realised the invite wasn't official. Yes, it was done in school time though not during lessons.

Then the punishment is totally OTT!!!

piglet74

so am i the only one who thinks Child B is creative with a sense of humour then to come up with such an invite?

Spendless

dizsiebubba wrote: »

But you say A & B were playing...when the teacher spoke to A were they upset? Had they believed it? or was A aware it was pretend??

I run a Brownie pack (age 7-10) and I can't believe any of them would think it was real unless it had been made on PC and even then they don't really have the skills to make it look official enough...

Child A wasn't asked anything about it by teacher whether they thought it real or not. Child C informed teacher. A and B had been playing thru-out breaks and lunch-times, the invite was given during one of these times.

lovinituk

Spendless wrote: »

Child A realised the invite wasn't official. Yes, it was done in school time though not during lessons.

Then Child A realised it was a play thing all along? In that case the punishment was completely OTT and to be honest the teacher shouldn't have even got involved.

I can't see my 8 year old believing that a child made invite was real for one second. If this had happened to my son I would not have been upset and if my son had been punished for doing it I would have told the teacher to stop being so silly.

peachyprice

It depends whether this was done out of malice or whether child B thought child A would see through it within a short time if child C hadn't interfered. Was it a joke gone wrong or was it a purely cruel, spiteful act?

It also would have been obvious to child A's mother that this wasn't for real so the teachers response of 'what would have happened if child A had turned up' is an over-reaction, it wasn't going to happen was it, she's 9, she's not going to take herself off to meet this minor celebrity.


Edit:
OP, I see you've asnwered while I was typing. In which case the teacher was OTT.

I'm suprised at the number of posters who immediately jumped on the child B being nasty bandwagon without even asking for more details TBH, that's very sad that within a few lines of text you could determine that she'd purposely set out to hurt child A.

lovinituk

Spendless wrote: »

Child A wasn't asked anything about it by teacher whether they thought it real or not. Child C informed teacher. A and B had been playing thru-out breaks and lunch-times, the invite was given during one of these times.

Sounds like the problem is with the teacher! Handing out punishments willy nilly without finding out the facts first - not good!

SandC

Punishment over the top and I think child B will go far! Clearly an 'ideas' person.

Child A realised straight away. Teacher sounds like a berk.