DS head Teacher told them the world was going to explode today

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DS (5) was asking some v strange questions on the walk home from school today along the lines of, 'what's the world made of?, is it full of fire?, why arn't our feet hot? Ect. Which TBH, isn't that unusual, he's a big questioner. But he looked very tearful when during the conversation.

He finally said ' Mr pompous twat head teacher said in assembly that when the clock went 111 the world is going to explode! And kept on about 'are we going to die? Ect.

I was already angry with the teachers only letting four children see Santa and get gifts why the rest of the class sat there.

AIBU to hold on to this rage untill January and confront the idiot man?

Can't belive this tbh.

That seems very unwise for a HT...

YANBU at all, but before you set your guns blazing, ask how it was worded.

Dd was told about this, but in a "the world's not going to end" way, but heard "blah blah blah the world's going to end blah blah" and has spent the last few days shitting herself.

If he did indeed say it, he's a twat!

What an idiot, YANBU

Oh dear .

I think your DS has a fantastic imagination but I really wouldnt believe that the head teacher actually stood up in assembly and said those things.

Maybe ask around other children who were there to get a rounder picture before going in all guns firing in January.

That would be a very stupid thing for a head teacher to say. Glad my two have more sensible teachers.

My children are adults now but if I heard that a teacher of any grade had said that to my grandchildren I would be on the phone to him / her so quick and if it had actually been said then an official complaint would soon follow !!!

Given that we are still on our puters posting here the aforesaid occurence was abvioulsy a non event and such terrorising totally, totally out of order !!!
Surely if said teacher reallybelived it there would have been no school anyway so why mention it ???????????

weird

Ask your class teacher what happened

Fridge true, but, I think even mentioning it to an assembly hall of Y1, Y2 and reception children is pretty stupid.
I havnt even let him see the news because of the scaremongering.

I would chill put wait til January and speak to the teacher then.

Chances are your child has interpreted what was said in a different way to how it was said. I think the head should be aware of that, but if you go in having a go and it turns out different. You will look a twat.

Just to add that I was told by a parent that apparently I told a class that the devil would come up through the floorboards and grab naughty children by the ankles and pull them back down into
The child was present while the parent (who luckily knew I wouldn't say any such thing) was asking me why I said such a horrible thing and was completely unabashed at being caught out in a lie. She was 5 years old too.

Should read..

down into hell

Snap. Head teacher was making jokes about it assembly for my two girls this morning. Hilarious, not!!! My eldest said "I felt like crying Mummy cos I was scared I was never going to see you again". :(

I am well aware Kelly about 5year olds and their tales - DD1 telling her teacher, whilst I was working in the room, that her fave dinners are Tuna flavour chunks in jelly Whiskers but I can't just dismiss it out of hand, but TBH if he even has mentioned it jokingly he needs to be told of the affect this "grown up information" has on the little ones.

Is it possible that the headteacher was responding to comments made by the pupils?

I had no intention of discussing this with my class but a few of them were talking about it - one pupil got upset so we had a rational discussion about why it wasn't going to happen.

I certainly wouldn't have initiated the discussion topic but I didn't feel I could ignore it as one persistant child was insisting loudly and convincingly that we were all going to die

Dolly bless her teachers need to understand things like this shouldn't be mentioned AT ALL in anyway, Grrrr

Good point ELF that is a impossible situation to be in. I will talk to him calmly, and something along those lines happened, then of course, I won't go in, guns blazing.

Well, it is possible he's a twat who didn't think it through but I would hate to think that a parent of one of my pupils was sat at home cursing me tonight, mind you mine are Y6 so a bit more robust, but I can see how it the conversation could arise without the teacher intending it to happen

Give the teachers a break! Christ I've got into some very awkward conversations with my ds, including a memorable one about evolution which led me to drop him off at pre school with the memorable phrase "We've just had a discussion about evolution. I'm really sorry if he calls anyone a monkey. He isn't being racist"

This term in reception one of the kids told their parents that a dead person was at assembly. Parent thought it was some inappropriate Halloween trick. Turned out to be an Elvis impersonator.

oh look a - my first ever - get a life- now you know you and your children have one !!!!

I'm with Elf - unless HT has form as a loon, most likely explanation is that year 4 have picked up some rubbish on the Interwebs and been spreading it around the playground and HT has been putting them straight. Your DC has heard "blah blah blah end of the world blah blah".

I speak as one whose DC (rather older than 5) sat through the whole of Skyfall under the impression that Judi Dench was the villain.

No he didn't.

And if he- did surely one of the other adults in the room would have informed the police that there was a raving loon running amok?

oh look a , get a life your right, my poor boy who is convinced the world is going to explode and me have no life.

How does that help?

There was no year 4 In the room - school only has reception, Y1 & Y2.

One of our persistent offenders (8y) said several times that it didn't matter how he behaved this week, as the world was going to end. (I actually think this is a little bit .)

He is going to be very very pissed off next term!