Interested to know what people think about this… my DD’s year group (year 3) have been told they are no longer allowed to talk about who they have crushes on etc. DD said the teacher said something about secrets so I’m guessing someone has got upset after someone else told their secret and there’s been some teasing or embarrassment or something.
I totally get that this sort of thing can lead to people getting upset. And I also don’t care much for the silly crushes chat myself! But I feel really strongly that they can’t tell kids what they can or can’t talk about in their own private conversations, and that this is a terrible precedent/lesson to teach young people about free speech! Is my DD really supposed to stop herself if she’s just chatting quietly to a friend in the playground because the subject matter has been vetoed?? And surely in any case they need to teach them HOW to handle these types of conversations without upsetting people, ie the importance of not betraying confidences, not embarrassing people or teasing, and so on…
Thoughts?