My son teacher who is now a senco called my son an idiot fuming???

LadyDee

Sleazy wrote: »

When I was at school, a certain English teacher used to throw the wooden blackboard duster at anybody when he got annoyed, and I still remember a rhyme he recited to the class when a fellow pupil didn't do his homework:

"Kevin Parkhouse must live in a dark house. He can't see to write because there's no light".

Move on

My form teacher once frog-marched me out of morning assembly to the outside toilet and washed my hair under the cold tap (there was no hot) using hard soap, in order to remove colour rinse from my hair! God - I had SO much respect for that lady - Miss Pringle - there's a name I remember from all those decades ago. I learned so much from her.

Goodness - I feel a touch of the trauma coming on - wonder if it's too late to claim some compo?

Hoof_Hearted

Context is everything. You can call somebody an idiot in quite a friendly way.

Bogalot

Kaye1 wrote: »

I worked with teenagers for a long while. They can sometimes behave like idiots. It is natural. They usually turn into lovely people.

We as a class decided to make up a word for this- when someone is behaving in a manner that needed to be sorted out. We discussed how Roald Dahl used to push words together or make them up- and we came up with the word 'twonk.' Twit at the start and wonky at the end. (Don't ask me why!)

So children in my class would know that when Mrs.XXXX called them a 'twonk,' they were getting out of line. Would you be 'fuming' if you son reported that? Or would it have been the adult, decent, grown up thing to do, to contact the school and speak to them in a mature grown up manner?

You have made yourself look a right 'twonk.'

Are you sure you came up with the word twonk? It's in the dictionary!

lincroft1710

Bogalot wrote: »

Are you sure you came up with the word twonk? It's in the dictionary!

It must be fairly recent as it is not in the 1998 Chambers Dictionary

Prinzessilein

I doubt that any teacher - especially one in line for a senior position (eg SENCO) is going to be so stupid that they insult a child in front of a whole class of witnesses!

Most teachers I know (and believe me I know a fair few...I used to be a teacher....in Special Needs as it happens) are very wary of saying anything that could be misinterpreted - youngsters today are only to quick to jump on anything (or nothing) and scream 'abuse'....all too often egged on by parents who can see the £ signs of compo dancing before their eyes.

That's not to say that teachers are always 100% blameless wingless-angels....but I would suggest that in this case a rowdy class are taking a softly phrased 'quieten down you soft eejit' type of remark and blowing it up out of all proportion (if the event happened at all........)

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

The other night in town, while it was dark, a fresh face teenager on a bike with no lights, cycled across the road without a care straight in front of a car with his mates.

I called him words I would not describe here, but those around me were considerate in their praise of my comments. If it prevents him from wandering in front of a car next time, all the best. If it does not, then I am sure the local gendarmerie will have their work cut out!

unholyangel

lincroft1710 wrote: »

It must be fairly recent as it is not in the 1998 Chambers Dictionary

Its in oxford dictionary:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/twonk

Apparently originated in the 1980s.

MothballsWallet

Wasn't "twonk" used in Only Fools & Horses?

SailorSam

nomoneytoday wrote: »

How old are the children?

How old are the children ?
My first thought was it's the school holidays and how old is the troll.

Bogalot

MothballsWallet wrote: »

Wasn't "twonk" used in Only Fools & Horses?

Yes, apparently from twit and plonker, which John Sullivan used regularly.

I'm sure he'd have had a good laugh if he knew some random teacher was trying to claim his work as their own!