to think teacher calling kids this is inappropriate?

Are you able to retrain for a career working exclusively with adults? It may be less stressful for you.

Rude!

I know which of the teachers/ex-teachers on this thread I’d prefer to be teaching my kids

Ha, ha. The teacher has a sense of humor.

If that were my child returning from school, I would ask what they had done to earn the moniker!

I think it's hilarious

But then again l have lots of wet wipe colleagues. Plus people being wet and pathetic drive me insane

You are very passive aggressive. You say you have not taught for a long time so you can't really comment on how children are today. There has been a massive change in the last five years.
My year 7s are a bloody nightmare with their lack of resilience and inability to do anything independently. A few years ago only 4 or 5 kids in a class would struggle to do anything without 20 questions, now it's most of them. In my class of 33 I would say that 25 of them need spoon feeding. Sadly we have no TA. It's a bit of a nightmare.

And I love my job!

Wet wipe- like snowflake? I do not think it's appropriate.

You made me laugh!

if one of my kid was coming home telling me the teacher had called them "blithering idiots" , my only question would be: what stupid thing have you done now 😂

Times have changed and therefore I tell this anecdote not to compare or condone, but when I was at primary school decades ago our teacher Mrs Fullford, used to call us blithering idiots!

Progress aye!

I’m not unhappy in my role and nothing I have said would suggest that.

@noblegiraffe More rudeness. Goodness me. Your true colours. I thought I had engaged with every point you have made in your posts. I apologise if there are any points you feel I have missed out. I would suggest a change of career to anyone who is unhappy in their current role. I don’t see anything contentious or insulting in that. Have a good evening.

And you've been prattling on about how I should perhaps retrain as I'm clearly not suited to teaching kids which is the tired old fallback of people who can't actually engage with what is being said so I'm pretty sure I don't care about your estimation or your disappointment in me.

I think this is probably a matter for the police.
Has the child been found a safe space to explore their feelings, is there pastoral support, and has anybody considered saging the school?

Gosh, this thread was bat-shit when it started and it seems to have deteriorated to borderline deranged.
The lack of resilience in schools (I am Primary) is very worrying to me. When I read some of the responses on here though, I begin to see where it's stemming from.

@noblegiraffe the behaviour that you attributed to me as an individual without any proof whatsoever of my intentions. You have really gone down in my estimation. Very disappointing from you.

I described the behaviour, not the individual.

I will keep my own counsel when you start doing the same @noblegiraffe. I guess there would be no MN if everyone did that. You certainly wouldn’t have started and commented on numerous threads if you had kept your own counsel. I have been nothing but polite to you while you have responded rudely to me calling me pious and superior because I don’t agree with you. I have taught quite a few children in Year 6 who had the emotional development and maturity of a Year 2 child and even in some cases of Year 1 children. I used to use differentiation with those pupils. Perhaps that doesn’t happen in schools anymore? I have been retired for a while now.

What has gone on at primary encompasses far more than individual primary school teachers doing or not doing their jobs, by the way.

Just like 'secondary causing issues with pupils' not being down to individual teachers. There are a lot of systemic failures.

I’m not convinced that raising a generation of kids who can’t cope with mild teasing without parents leaping in to defend them isn’t actually turning them into a bunch of wet wipes. Resilience seems to be through the floor.

This? It should be seen as a slightly funny term for being a bit silly about refusing to do/try something. My kids would laugh if i called them this. Why is everyone so bloody traumatised by everything?!!

If you were really happy to let 'you do you' you wouldn't have piously said that "I wouldn’t call children ‘kids’ either as to me a kid is a baby goat". You'd have kept your own counsel on that matter instead of trying to sound superior.

As for children being immature and maturing at different rates: you will surely know that there are behaviours that you would expect to see generally in Y2 that you wouldn't expect to see in Y6. If your Y6s were behaving in a way you would expect more from Y2, then that could be described as immature.

I'm not sure why exactly this needs explaining.

@Hercisback1 see above ‘I’m not sure what has gone on at primary’.

@noblegiraffe as I said in a previous post you do you. That is your choice to use that language. It is my choice not to call children ‘kids’ no matter how many times you tell me there is ‘literally nothing wrong with it’. I don’t really use slang terms very much. Children are immature because they are children and have not reached maturity. Additionally different children mature at different rates. That has always been the case. If you can’t understand that then it is inevitable that you will get frustrated with some of the children you teach going forward. Are you able to retrain for a career working exclusively with adults? It may be less stressful for you.

Who said anything about primary teachers not doing their jobs?

This years Y7 cohort are noticeably less mature, more silly and generally needier than previous cohorts. Not surprised there's a few more wet wipes in Y7.

There is literally nothing wrong with calling children 'kids' whether it also refers to baby goats or not.

And if you don't understand what I mean by referring to Y7s as immature, then this conversation seems a bit futile.

I can object to whatever I wish. I won’t call children ‘kids’ and I never resorted to calling children names when I was teaching. I think calling actual children immature is a bit silly. I do hope the problems in secondary schools can be resolved.

I wouldn’t call children ‘kids’ either as to me a kid is a baby goat but you do you

Good grief. Now we’re objecting to that level of language?

I don’t know what has happened to this cohort of Y7s, I suggested that there could have been something in the water that year. But they are incredibly immature and if people are handwringing over teasing them or even calling them ‘kids’, one wonders how far that protective bubble has stretched and whether it is to their detriment.

And there are lots of problems with secondary schooling that are causing young people to have various issues. I’m quite happy to admit that.