To think saying this to children is unacceptable?

[PenguinBear]

It quite upset me to hear this shouted. They are year 3/4 mixed class and some are barely 7. If your child's teacher shouted "go away" quite meanly at them would you be upset? The tone was really quite spiteful and it was like she had no time for them. Plus some of them are not getting on with their work as they don't understand and are too scared to ask her again.

What would best course of action be bearing in mind this teacher is deputy head.

SAYING*

Sorry, on my phone!

Not necessarily. Would need to know the context really.

It would depend on the context.
If it was a normally nice teacher having a difficult day I wouldn't think much at all. Kids can be really annoying.
I'm assuming you have more concerns than this one isolated incident?

What went on before? Were they supposed to be getting on with their work? Had they been buzzing round demanding attention? Did they not listen the first 100 times?

I do dairy nuts but if I post it all here it could identify me very quickly!

If it's come from the child I'd try to find out more before making any judgement.

NB we have edited this thread title to make sense
MNHQ

not a nice way to address children

Yes, it would definitely depend on all manner of things.

How do you know that some of the children are not understanding and too frightened to ask? I'm guessing here that you are a TA maybe? I wouldn't necessarily go on what a child said.

You need to give the context otherwise it's impossible to answer your (edited) question.

There's no need to address anyone like that.

Totally depends.

After explaining something clearly and succinctly, only to have the one child who was twatting around not listening come up to you and say "I don't geddit" might well provoke a firm "go away" from me...

Maybe the children had been told they needed to be sitting down and they disobeyed? They could have put their hand up instead if they needed help.

I wouldn't like to hear that being shouted at young children.
Maybe she was just having a bad moment though.

Depends really. It isn't particularly nice but I wouldn't be too worried about someone speaking to my 6yo ds like that. I think that even children have to learn that there are some people who aren't very nice in this world.

However if kids are actually terrorised and afraid to ask for help with their work, then that is too much.

Sometimes Kids push boundaries with a new teacher, and they need to know the teacher is firm and will not pander to attention seeking

Need the context op

Oh crap. Another bad mum expression to strike from the list