To wonder how to deal with this ?

[Dancingfairy]

Hope this doesn't offend but recently my son went into year 1 so has a new teacher. Anyway he told me he doesn't like his teacher because she's Indian! I am mortified as we are not a racist family so I can't understand where he got it from, we are a mixed race, and live in south east london so come across different races all the time. Is it best to ignore? Is this normal things that children come out with?

[AntagonyAunt]

How did you respond?

[Dancingfairy]

I told him that that wasn't very nice and asked him why that made him not like her but didn't get any reason out of him.

[Appuskidu]

Children say all sorts of things-often picked up from their friends. The important thing though is how you dealt with it! What did you say?

[Dancingfairy]

He's said it again earlier this evening so just had me wondering how they pick these things up if they haven't been taught it but guess it could be from a friend then. I repeated that it isn't a nice thing to say but wondered if I should have said something different.