To complain about this teacher

[middleclassdystopia]

Ds teacher told the class Scotland should be independent 'because the English take all our money'

I am for a few reasons.

This isn't factually accurate. I'm all for teaching children about important political issues (my ds is 8) but with a balanced view.

Also I'm English and find her comment offensive in its tone.

There has been a nationalistic tone to her topics and teaching which I don't like.

Should I complain?

I think you'll find things have changed with the indy ref tabliope. Both campaigns have school outreach teams, 16/17 yos are voting, it's (whatever your views) an historic event, so it is being talked about.

Of course I have no problems with it being discussed as long as it's done accurately and without bias. Which isn't what the OP has described.

Fair enough, I think it was long ago and has been the subject of "Myth forming", and mainly his history teacher (whom he had for 6 years, and he knows all the battles in which the Scottish beat the English, and never learned anything else)!

I guess things like that get embedded in the memory and it is now bandied out as fact.

I wasn't there, so would not know.

He would say Scottish people near the border are very anti-English, in his experience, whereas in the Highlands they are not that bothered.

I'm not usually bothered by this sort of thing. The odd anti English remark has hardly impacted on my life. Not when you compare it to the racism, degradation and slavery of Black people for example. I'm not precious.

But something about this has upset me. I don't want my child taught this

I would raise concerns about this, definitely.

If you have got the story correct, then the teacher is being derogatory towards a child and one of his parents, teaching his class untruths, and imposing his on views onto children. That is an abuse of the position he has been put in, and it would be taken very seriously at my school.

fiscal are you sure he wasn't teaching Scottish history

Also this:
He would say Scottish people near the border are very anti-English, in his experience, whereas in the Highlands they are not that bothered. is total stereotypical bollocks. It's simply not fact, at all, and if your DH really believes this then he is clearly basing his feelings on a few individuals, and should stop spreading such anti-Scottish hatred.

Yes, you should complain. My quarter-English DS got beaten up after school by primary schoolchildren who'd heard similar anti-English stuff in the classroom and got all hotheaded and Braveheart about it. The perpetrators barely knew him; he was just the one who didn't sound Scottish enough for their liking. And for what it's worth, it was officially recorded as a racist incident.

Yes you should have a word