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When is it ok for a teacher to tell a child to bugger off?

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BlueElephant90 · 18/11/2012 17:31

When is it ok for a teacher to tell a child to bugger off?

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wakeupandsmellthecoffee · 18/11/2012 17:33

Sits back and opens packet of bickers sips coffee and waits for the fun to start.

AnyFucker · 18/11/2012 17:33
Hmm
Greensleeves · 18/11/2012 17:34

um

JakeBullet · 18/11/2012 17:35

When the child in question is THEIR child and they are sayi g in mock horror.."look just bugger off love. We'll discuss it later".

Can't think that there is any other reason, nor can I imagine a teacher actually saying this.

TheFallenMadonna · 18/11/2012 17:35

It's not OK, obviously. What was the situation?

EvilTwins · 18/11/2012 17:36

OK, I'll bite... It is OK for a teacher to do that if there is a solidly good relationship there and all involved know it is light-hearted banter. I have told kids to bugger off before now. Also to get lost. Would only say it to certain kids though.

TheNebulousBoojum · 18/11/2012 17:38

Need more details just because I'm curious.
Because the answer is, of course, never and in no circumstances.
Check your discipline and behaviour policy, I'm pretty certain that it won't be an option. You can think it, mind, as often and as loudly as you like.

Sparklingbrook · 18/11/2012 17:38
TheFallenMadonna · 18/11/2012 17:38

Not sure about the use of "bugger" even as banter, but "get lost", of course!

mirry2 · 18/11/2012 17:38

#et lost is ok if said in a jokey manner. Buggar off is offensive language and I would be horrified if a teacher said it to my or any other child. i would never say it to anybody and certainly not a child.

TheNebulousBoojum · 18/11/2012 17:38

Probably a primary/secondary split here. Smile

MmeLindor · 18/11/2012 17:40

I'm presuming senior school? Not P3.

Still on dodgy ground, but if staff and pupil had a bit of banter going, then perhaps ok.

More details needed.

EndoplasmicReticulum · 18/11/2012 17:41

I might say this to my own children, in a light-hearted sort of way. Not to anybody else's.

TheMonster · 18/11/2012 17:42

When they need to take their bag off Grin sorry op, but I couldnt resist.

BlueElephant90 · 18/11/2012 17:43

At a secondary school, to a 12 year old boy when the teacher was annoyed with him. The child cried for a long time afterwards.

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BlueElephant90 · 18/11/2012 17:44

No problem Body, have fun Smile

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TheNebulousBoojum · 18/11/2012 17:44

So there's your answer. The child was distressed. The teacher was at fault.
What on earth had the child done?

mirry2 · 18/11/2012 17:45

I'm not surprised he cried. Not nice at all.

EvilTwins · 18/11/2012 17:46

Absolutely not under those circumstances and with a child that young. Would never say something like that in annoyance anyway, only in banter.

BlueElephant90 · 18/11/2012 17:46

Was not running fast enough!

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TheNebulousBoojum · 18/11/2012 17:47

Not from a PE teacher by any chance?
BlueElephant90 · 18/11/2012 17:49

EXACTLY

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Felicitywascold · 18/11/2012 17:49

No. Of course it's not appropriate.

Although I can see myself saying it in banter, in an 'informal' setting (on a residential, in a boarding house, during a Sunday rehearsal) perhaps to a member of the U6 who I knew extremely well (ie, had been in Loco-Parentis during his school career since he was 13). And even then- Maybe. Not definitely.

mirry2 · 18/11/2012 17:49

Why oh why do PE teachers think that some children are underperforming when in fact they are not very talented at PE?

shellyf · 18/11/2012 17:50

Only in their head.Unacceptable to say out loud.

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