Teacher showing photos to kids of victorian dead children - slightly disturbing

Im more disturbed by the back to front phrasing in your thread title OP.

But these photos are part of history, its part of our historic culture, its what was in fashion at the time. Like people will look back on road side shrines and shudder, we do the same about dead people propped up in a chair dressed in their Sunday best.

The “higher up” people often agree with people like you in meetings etc because it makes you go away faster.

The fact that the teacher is still teaching, despite you saying SLT agreed with other 'issues' tells me that there aren't any issues. As a teacher, if there were any issues, that teacher would be removed!

Because there aren't any obviously

Our LA used to book a local cinema and it would be filled with seniors from several Scottish high schools. Not a great idea, to be honest.

Get a grip. Your DC is a teenager and like many teenagers has seen much worse on YouTube or media messages.
My DD would love the lesson.

You can't sleep because your DC's teacher showed your DCs some examples of death photography? Please get a grip

I’ve read through and haven’t seen anything specific, unless you mean that details of the teacher’s “form” would be outing. I was going to suggest, however, that if you are worried about other things the teacher has focused on them you might need to contact the school. The teacher might young/inexperienced but there might be a reasonable explanation. I presume the Industrial Revolution course hasn’t finished, in which case there will be plenty of time to cover Victorian engineering etc.
As a retired high school teacher I do find it odd that the teacher showed those photos. As a teacher, I may have shown one or two photos but not ones showing children.
It does seem bizarre.

Why is a teenager knowing that sexual assault is a thing inappropriate? Wouldn’t you have had consent discussions etc long before 14/15? So many people now label everything as “trauma” and I worry massively that we are going to have a whole generation of people in the work place who simply cannot cope with exposure to anything. People I know in managerial roles give overwhelming feedback that the new starters coming out of school today are completely unprepared for real life! I heard a story recently about the mother of one 19 year old picking boxes in the freezer section of a warehouse phoned his boss (my Dad’s colleague) to complain her child was cold 🙈. Reading MN, this doesn’t surprise me! We need to be trauma informed and aware of feelings but we also need to prepare children for the fact that in the real world no one cares and there is a level of just getting on with it that comes with adult life!

Off the top of my head no, but purely because I wanted to be a Funeral Director when I was younger and in lieu of being able to actually do it (disability) I read extensively on pretty much everything to do with funereal customs in western cultures. So it was largely info gleaned over the past 20 years, as well as having a minor in manual photography. However, there is an excellent TikTokker called Mama Macabre who has extensive expertise on Memento Mori and talks through photographs, customs and evidence (both cultural and photographic). I will warn you as a courtesy though, her channel contains many many many images of the dead of all ages, including babies and some of whom were embalmed less well than others. She also addresses images found on line and whether they are fake or not.

It is far easier to tell a definitely deceased person than someone ambiguous, if that makes sense. There are tell tale
signs that if present means definitely deceased (faint mottling of the face or a sunken mouth, darker shading to feet even if lying down) and if not present - well, if not present it could be either way. The supposedly ‘posed as alive’ images usually have slight blurring on the facial features which is an indication of life - corpses don’t move - but not all live pictures have blurring as some people can stay still better than others.

OP, unless you are a teacher you have no idea about engaging a class full of students of this age, day in, day out. (If you are a teacher of this age group, then I apologise and please disregard the comment).

You can’t post on AIBU and then get shirty if you’re sensitive to responses like this. This is the tone of the board.

Look, when my dd was in year 9, they were shown photos of Jack the ripper’s crimes. I think that was worse. Some things are a bit morbid but are part of history. Year 9 is old enough to learn about such things. IMO

See my posts up-thread. Evidently, you can!

They are old enough to understand/ handle the pictures. Especially with all the knife crime going around at that age.

She's not incorrect. Historian here - in large part, it's an internet hoax. Specifically, there is no contemporary evidence that dead subjects were ever posed as if living. See the link I gave upthread, which gives a reputable debunking of this.
I'd be really interested to see any contemporary evidence of this practice, or any instances of reputable historians giving credence to this, or any peer-reviewed journal articles that discuss this supposed practice.

So far as I can tell, the only 'evidence ' of this occurring is a bunch of randoms on the internet claiming that this or that photo shows a dead subject posed as if alive.

Sorry to get so worked up, but I find it concerning that a history teacher is teaching this as fact, without having interrogated the sources.

Is that on the curriculum? If you’re joking, it’s actually quite a good idea. It would engage some teens who aren’t natural History enthusiasts.

You know every teen in the history class on a personal level and have an in-depth idea of what motivates them? And you could engage them all perfectly? With skills like that you are wasted in whatever your industry is and you should definitely try teaching.

Ok. Thanks. I obviously missed your post when I skimmed through.