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AIBU?

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to explain to the teacher that he has misunderstood

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SleeplessonMN · 16/05/2014 20:56

DS has told his teacher we are going away to "vaguely interesting place" over half term

DS's teacher has now told DS that apparently "Henry", the class bear, has always wanted to go to "vaguely interesting place" and thus has "suggested" that DS can look after him over half term.

Would I BU to advise the teacher that he must have misunderstood Henry and that actually Henry would rather like to have a nice quiet half term resting in an empty school?

(DS is Year 5 and I hadn't even realised he still had a class bear, isn't there some law restricting them to infant school classes? )

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indigo18 · 16/05/2014 21:00

Why? What have you got against Henry?

spottydolphin · 16/05/2014 21:03

no i think Henry really would love to go. he'd love to go so much he'd probably want to stay there.

you'll be the hero of the playground if you leave him there :P

PrincessBabyCat · 16/05/2014 21:06

Aw... Poor Henry. He probably gets bored being all by himself.

exexpat · 16/05/2014 21:07

I think you should send Henry the bear on holiday to Japan. Maybe the class could have a cake sale to cover the cost.

TheWholeOfTheSpoon · 16/05/2014 21:10

We were bullied encouraged to take the Class Bear to Australia. He liked it so much, he stayed there.

MrsWinnibago · 16/05/2014 21:14

Take him, take one photo of him in the lost property area and return without him

UncleT · 16/05/2014 21:19

Mock up a photo of the bear locked up in a Turkish prison with large, angry cellmates about to give him a pasting. Then, throw the stupid thing in the bin and enjoy your holiday in peace, without the hassle of taking things you neither need or want to.

Humbug!

PrincessBabyCat · 16/05/2014 21:22

Why so much hate for a class bear? I think it's a cute.

All we had growing up were "Flat Stanley's" for our parents to take pictures of while we were on vacation.

Jinty64 · 16/05/2014 21:26

Why so much hate for a class bear? I think it's a cute.

It wouldn't get inside my house unless it was in a plastic bag. Yuck!

capsium · 16/05/2014 21:29

Send him to your local newspaper, with a note round his neck saying he wants to sell his story exposing stuffed bear exploitation by primary schools.....

capsium · 16/05/2014 21:30

Leave him at home with a web cam fixed in him....what does a stuffed bear really do when no one is watching.....not much actually!

capsium · 16/05/2014 21:31

^on him. Not in him. Typo.

whatsonyourplate · 16/05/2014 22:02

Can you leave bear at home but then Photoshop him into a few of the holiday photos?

Kewcumber · 16/05/2014 22:03

Its stopped being cute by year 5. In fact its stopped being cute in year 3

stealthsquiggle · 16/05/2014 22:05

OP, whilst there are many valid reasons for objecting to Henry inviting himself along on your holiday, I think we need to understand your specific objection in order to help.

HavannaSlife · 16/05/2014 22:08

19 years of dc and I am yet to meet a class bear, I don't. See the problem with taking it with you though?

littlepeas · 16/05/2014 22:09

Ds is in reception and they have FIVE class 'bears'. God, thinking about it, it may even be six. The children take them home for a whole weekend or week and they have a special learning power that you your child has to think about and write about in a book. You get each one twice over the course of the year. I have a child in reception now, another starting in September and then dc3 starts in September 2015! That is some serious class bear effort. Count yourself lucky!

Picklesauage · 16/05/2014 22:13

My class has special rubber duck, I choose it because it can be disinfected and sterilised!

SirChenjin · 16/05/2014 22:17

I think that you should take Henry to the nearest 'vaguely interesting' incinerator and throw him in.

Class bears (or dogs, in our case) are the work of the devil. Who started them (the teens didn't have class bears when they were little) and why? Because I would like to put that person in the same incinerator.

Oldraver · 16/05/2014 22:23

We had the multiple class bear/soft toy thing..we got a new one everyday ......for ages

ladygracie · 16/05/2014 22:26

We have a class you & one parent had the genius idea of setting up a twitter account for him. This means no writing if they don't want to & it's really simple.
I don't let it go home at half terms or holidays though unless the children are going somewhere super exciting. I tell the kids it's not fair if he goes to someone's for longer than 2 nights.

brdgrl · 16/05/2014 22:28

Year 5??? I enjoyed doing the bear thing with DD this year. She's in nursery. By year 5, I will be well over this.

What does your DS want to do? Is this one of those things where a idiot well-meaning person makes a suggestion which you can't then say no to without having to deal with fallout from the child? Like every damn time someone offers my DD a balloon?

brdgrl · 16/05/2014 22:29

Does vaguely interesting place require passports? Or jabs?

Coconutty · 16/05/2014 22:29

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slithytove · 16/05/2014 22:32

You think class bears are bad.... My primary school had guinea pigs and rabbits which came home with us - never fun explaining to the class why snowy the rabbit died on your weekend!

More high maintenance than a stuffed toy too

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