to go on the warpath over something this teacher said.

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This happened last week but I only heard about it today.

DD1 takes German with the DD of a friend. Today I was at this friends for coffee and she asked me if my DD had told me about something that had happened in German last week. DD hadn't, so my friend informed me that according to her DD, the German teacher was poking fun at people with Aspergers, referring to them as retards and slagging off a 'friend' of his who has Aspergers, and reading out texts this friend had sent him encouraging the children to laugh at this poor bloke. He also referred to Aspergers as a disease of the brain.

I have spoken to DD and she confirms that this happened and said she wasn't comfortable at all because her brother, DS1 has Aspergers. DS1 as it happens, also has this teacher for German

It happened last week, but WIBU to make a big fuss to the school over this?

I'm going to chat with my co-complainant, but most likely we'll escalate. I want to email the HT back and tell him that I'm not satisfied that he investigated this thoroughly given that he spoke to neither my daughter nor her friend. Of course, he could have spoken to other children in the class but if he did, I want to know.

I also want an account from the teacher, explaining exactly what happened giving reasons for why he mentioned this thread, why he even said the word 'retard' in relation to his friend, why he read out text messages from this friend.

Mostly though, I just want to respond ''lol, you expect me to believe that shit?'' I won't, so don't panic

thread* = friend. I can't even blame autotext for that one.

Sounds like a plan!

Why was he attempting to 'point out' such things in a german lesson, rather than teaching german?

Why is teh school defending this presentation of complex & sensitive issues which I'd argue need better consideration than a few flip comments?

Teacher is in authority in the classroom & has control of the content of what he says, and a responsibility to ensure that it is not misunderstood. Attempting and failing is still poor peformance on his part.

The response you got seems to imply that the misunderstanding (I'm really unconvinced that it was a misunderstanding btw) was the fault of the children. This is completely unacceptable.