To be unimpressed that Ds's teachers used pants as a teaching aid?

[RoundtheMulberryBag]

I think this is very unorthodox.

It's a reading week so they're getting to do stuff "off topic" according to the previous newsletter although unsurprisingly there was no mention of using pants on a string pegged up and stickers on the gussets to make sums

And wearing of pants on head as a prize?

Inappropriate!? I hope they're not second hand pants. My dc spent most of the morning tearing their way round the house with pants hanging off them, they had to be frisked on exiting the house for fear of them packing supplies to take to school.

P.S. of course a name change as it'd be just my luck for one of DC's teachers to be on Mumsnet and identify me.

How old is he? I'm guessing the teacher used pants because kids would think it was funny and be more interested in their maths exercises.

Sounds fine to me. Lighten up! I am sure they are clean and if it is to do with reading maybe it is linked to a book? Aliens Love Underpants?

Sound fun. What do you fear will happen? I assume he's seen pants before?

Well it sounds like it's motivated your ds...

I suspect it has to do with "Aliens Love Underpants" as part of World Book Day?
If it gets them all interested, I don't really see a problem. Children seem to find pants very funny

It wouldn't bother me, I assume you're talking knickers and such. If it holds their attention and gets the teaching across it is only clothes after all.

Frisked??

YABU! Don't they all read Aliens love Underpants? And Dinosaurs love Underpants?

Sounds silly, but a lot of fun.

At that age (am assuming they're infant school aged) the get changed in front of each other anyway.

And no, they wouldn't be secondhand!!!

Once 'used' they would probably be washed and go into the school's emergency clothes section.

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They're just pants Unless they were polyester Ann Summers crotchless knickers, I can't see anything wrong with it.

Sounds fun, engaging and like your son loved it. How often does he otherwise talk about what he did in maths?

Sounds like a laugh.

Hope the lessons weren't too brief, and they remembered to put their work back in their drawers afterwards.

YABU.

Presumably it was based on 'Aliens Love Underpants' or something similar? I bet the kids had a blast and will remember whatever they learnt for ever (like I remember my P6 teacher turning a child upside-down to demonstrate fractions 40+ years ago :))

It sounds like great idea to me.

Sounds like a fun way to approach the subject; I don't think it's in the least inappropriate.

SaucyJack brilliant

Isn't there a book called The Queen's Knickers? I'm sure I saw a photo where the Queen (or another royal) visited a school in Diamond Jubilee year & the kids had been studying the book and lots of paper cut-outs of knickers were strung up like bunting? I think you need to lighten up a bit. If it's ok for royalty

Surely the OP is posting tongue in cheek? This isn't a serious complaint is it?

Pants are hilarious at a certain age. How old are your kids?

YABU

Pants are funny! Children will love it.

You need to lighten up. It sounds like a fun way to get the kids interested. They are just pants

treacle

Op, my dd would LOVE this, so I wouldn't be bothered, personally.

There were LACY ones and THONGS!

Unless they were polyester Ann Summers crotchless knickers, I can't see anything wrong with it.

[Grin] The mind boggles.

I think the OP is serious. Some people are very weird about pants. I mean, they have private parts in them and therefore the connection is just too close.

I let me DD wear a nappy on her head on the school run (a clean one, she was about 1.5 and had discovered she could put it on her head, and I thought she looked quite cute and funny....). Anyway, got a few 'looks' which surprised me, but hey ho.