to think the teacher shouldn't have called DN a bloody stupid twat?

[wetspringday]

DN was working on a compter yesterday and leaned back in his chair (shouldn't have done this) but he knocked over a cup of coffee that went over coursework. The teacher yelled at DN and called him a bloody stupid twat.

DN wasn't bothered and seemed to find it quite funny but I think I'd probably have to say something to the teacher concerned along the lines of it not being acceptable. DN is in Year 10 by the way (15.)

AIBU?

I think what people are missing here is that this wasn't normal behaviour for the teacher. The shock from the other children suggests this. No, it isn't acceptable, but are we all so blood thirsty that we cannot accept teachers have bad days, are human and may occasionally lose it.

My mum, former teacher in a country were corporal punishment was the norm, but who never hit a child, once lost it with a teenage girl who disrupted the class to the point the lesson couldn't continue and then refused to leave the class. Mum picked up a black board ruler and smacked it across a desk in anger. It broke, the girl left the class in shock and mum came home so upset with herself. It is one of the few times I have seen my mum cry and she is fairly tough. She was a great teacher as many of her former students will testify to, but on this one occasion she felt she let herself and her class down by letting the girl get the better of her.

cory (love your very well thought out posts by the way) - when you say "Mummy shouldn't deal with it", in the case of the OP, "Aunties shouldn't deal with it' either!

As not only the student but the parents were not offended by the outburst, it should end there. The Aunt shouldn't have wanted to involved and that is what most of the initial posts were saying. Then it got weird after some MNetters focused on the hot drink. The OP has long gone from this thread-I can see why!

'are we all so blood thirsty that we cannot accept teachers have bad days, are human and may occasionally lose it.'

..being professional means keeping a lid on your emotions and NOT losing it!

So yes then.

And you know what?
A lovely big mug of sweet delicious coffee help you do that.
Or three.

I'd be cross, yes. No teacher should swear at their pupils. And they prob shouldn't leave cups of coffee next to coursework either but she's presumably cross with herself about that particular fact.