<gulp> my first serious AIBU before I storm the staff room...

[PomBearAtTheGatesOfDawn]

Disclaimer: This is not a joke, I seriously want to know if IABU before I speak with the teacher on monday.
DDs class are doing their showing assembly next friday and DD is "the werewolf" - so far so good, they're doing the story of "Big Black Riding Hoodie".
DD brought a copy of the script home tonight, and the narrator child has to say (twice, once quietly and then again loudly) "It's the fat and ugly werewolf" as DD makes her appearance from "behind a tree". AIBU to think that "hairy scary werewolf" or "big fanged wild eyed werewolf" or "Riding Hoodie eating werewolf" would be better than "fat and ugly"?
Those are words that should not be uttered in school, let alone meant to be funny and/or entertaining and scripted by the teacher. There are one or two really big kids at the school who are seriously overweight, and even if they were all as thin as rakes, I just don't think "fat and ugly" should be bandied about. Or am I just being precious?
I will be speaking to the teacher on monday, even if IABU I can be as unreasonable as the next person when I want but I wondered if anyone else would feel this was "iffy" or if it is just me. sometimes things are Just Me, I don't always have the same reactions as other people to stuff so I'm never quite sure

As a hairy person I should like to object to the "hairy scary werewolf" idea as it discriminates against those of us with distressingly luxuriant 'taches.

Na not really.

OP you're right to object. Do yer worse, girl.

Is it possible that the story is about social steroytypes and that the moral is not to judge on how people look or what they wear? Also how old is your DD?

It sounds like their own version of one of the Seriously Silly Stories. We read some in year 2 last year like Little Red Riding Wolf and Snow White and the Seven Aliens. It sounds like the children have made up their own story and are performing it.

YANBU. DS was in a production (secondary school so not allowed to call it a "play" lol) and one of the lines were "That fat boy is right!" - I did a double take when I heard it - especially as the "boy" was actually rather large and it wasn't part of the costume. I would have taken that quite personally had I been his mum.

She's 9, and the script is just a straightforward remake of Little Red Riding Hood - basket of goodies snakes for Grandma, skips through trees down dark path wolf werewolf behind tree, then the wolf gives chase, little girl runs into grandma's house and slams door, woodcutter arrives and chops wolf up with axe... I think it's a Hallowe'en spin on the story hence Mum is a witch and Gran is one too I think, and the Big Black Hoodie and the Werewolf - from the looks of it, the kids have had lots of input, if not written the whole thing themselves. There's no big point or moral of the story or anything that I can see. The teacher has to have approved it all though, as it's all typed up and printed with the names of each child next to their lines, and they've been practising for ages.
I thought they were singing a song, they rewrote that Alicia Keyes "New York" to be "Class Two" - it was only when I got the script today that I realised the play and the song she's been talking about were both her class, and both for the showing assembly.

It all sounds weird YANBU

Am I the only one who has trouble reading the OP when she crosses too many words out?

Yes, it's all rather odd

gets carried away I always type "clauses" with sentences within sentences and run on, and I only got the thing when I came here, nowhere else seems to do it. And it's such a cool toy sidles out sheepishly dragging thingy behind her

it all sounds really good fun once the dodgy language is sorted. enjoy it and bask in the thespian expertise of your DD

YANBU that is a really foolish thing to write in a script for a children's play. I hope you get a good response. I teach little ones and wouldn't dream of asking them to say something like that. Language is very important.

I mean being sensitive about the language we use.

YABU to make a fuss about the "fat and ugly" in a production called "Big Black Riding Hoodie" - far more worrying stereotypes and assumptions possible with that.

Is anyone else's imagination running wild with what might be in a play called "Big Black Riding Hoodie"?

I know mine is. And none of it should be shown in a school setting.

YANBU, it's a wolf, not a werewolf.
And the big and fat are unnecessary, far more appropriate adjectives.

I also think "Big Black Riding Hoodie" sounds a bit dodgy!

What's wrong with "Red in the Hood" or summat if she wants to get a bit "street" with it.

well if the wolf is fat and ugly then i do not see the issue

big black riding hoody bit though...er yeah lmao

People are weird. I once edited a script for a childrens show..professional production....and they had a line in there about self harm! This was for kids aged between 5 and 11!

I edited it out, only for the pedantic writer to kick up a fuss. The production company put it back in! It was a weak joke but the writer had decided it was killer.

I think that the Big Black Riding Hoodie is the opposite of Little Red Riding Hood - the lead character is wearing one in the play (and that the kids came up with it). Not 100% sure though. What exactly is it that people are about with it? (Not being obtuse or deliberately dim, I just don't get it - is it the word black? is it a gang thing? I never batted an eyelid at the title, and am honestly wondering why not now. What am I missing? Please be gentle)

Thank God it's not Cinderella and the Non-Aesthetically Pleasing Siblings that is being performed....

Yes, it's the black gang associations that bother me.

YANBU.

I'll add one from my friend too because...... we spend most of our visits trying to stop our DC's (her DD2 mainly) calling each other stupid and ugly when they don't agree. Sure as hell wouldn't want it encouraged by a teacher of all people - DS listens to those

It's the colour of the hoodie!

As in Little Red Riding Hood, Big Black Riding Hoodie.

Pom the title sounds too "gang"....why say "hoodie" ? That's not the opposite of hood!
The Opposite of little red riding hood would possibly be

Big Blue Sitting Bare

Maybe

But either way...Big Black Riding Hoodie sounds like it's some street/gang thing.

Fucking hell.

(And I've never sworn on MN before).

Big BLACK Riding Hoodie?!

And this script is written by a primary school teacher?

You have grounds to go to the highest levels of complaint for ths alone. Let alone the fat and ugly comments. This teacher is obviously not up to the job.

When I trained to teach (early nineties) I observed a lesson by a more traditional older teacher on adjectives. She carefully put all the happy nice good adjectives on the pink side of her board and all the bad nasty adjectives on the black side. Then she asked the children why, and they all parrotted that it was because black was a 'BAD' colour. (The class was very multicultural with many black faces ). I thought that we had become a little more enlightened than those times.

I would suggest a carefully worded letter to the teacher and head explaining your discomfort because clearly this teacher lacks the imagination to empathise if you go storming in unhappy.

Please take this up with the school.