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Original poster

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

52 replies

RoundtheMulberryBag · 04/03/2015 09:29

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 Shock

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.

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MerryMarigold · 04/03/2015 09:43

OK, the OP is not being serious!

treaclesoda · 04/03/2015 09:45

Aaah, it was a joke Blush

MaCosta · 04/03/2015 09:45

Pants are just funny. My DS is nine and on Saturday was dressed up as pants man with three pairs of pants on over his PJs and two as head gear.

Pants never harmed anyone and did a whole lot of good.

Discopanda · 04/03/2015 09:47

I still find pants hilarious.

shrunkenhead · 04/03/2015 09:49

Might be The Queen's Knickers or Captain Underpants they're doing....? Ok so pants/knickers keep our private parts warm but as has already been said kids love humour about underwear/bottoms etc etc sounds funny, memorable and engaging to me!

BringMeTea · 04/03/2015 09:59

Small aside... i have been teaching as a supply this week. I was heartened to see 3 or 4 boys aged 9-11 in dresses (Bill's New Frock).

MinceSpy · 04/03/2015 10:03

Op your child's teacher sounds brilliant.

Hypotenuse · 04/03/2015 10:07

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

Grin

If it gets the little darlings to remember how fractions work I'm all for pants in the classroom!

NorbertDentressangle · 04/03/2015 10:08

Kids find pants funny ( eg. Captain Underpants as well as all the others mentioned)

JockTamsonsBairns · 04/03/2015 10:11

This is a pants thread

MidniteScribbler · 04/03/2015 10:13

OK, that's actually given me some ideas. Captain Underpants is a bit of an obsession with the kids in my classroom at the moment, particularly the boys. I think I might come up with a few cross-over activities.

I even have a (brand new) toilet in the garage awaiting an upcoming renovation which I can use for props.

Hehe this is going to be so much fun! Grin

Original poster
RoundtheMulberryBag · 04/03/2015 10:23

I'm not the only parent unimpressed.

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TheFairyCaravan · 04/03/2015 10:31

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WayfaringStranger · 04/03/2015 10:38

The teacher engaged your child and taught him something in a memorable way. Bravo, I say.

Hoppinggreen · 04/03/2015 10:40

My main concern would be DS taking some of my Granny pants to school and the whole class using them as a tent!!!!

MiaowTheCat · 04/03/2015 10:45

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whothehellknows · 04/03/2015 10:50

YABU. Because there are so many good stories involving pants, they always turn up during reading weeks. It's classic and the kids enjoy it.

Pants are nothing to be ashamed of.

Sirzy · 04/03/2015 10:53

Unless the children were made to take off their underwear to use in the lesson I can't see an issue

ApocalypseThen · 04/03/2015 11:03

If pants have been top secret in your house up till now, I think the teacher has done you a favour. At some point we all have to accept that pants exist and most people wear them most days. Some parents don't like to tackle that reality.

DrankSangriaInThePark · 04/03/2015 11:07

How do you know they were lacy ones and thongs?

Were they yours?

DecaffTastesWeird · 04/03/2015 11:17

I actually don't think YABU. I don't think pants are a particularly impressive or brilliant teaching aid.

I wouldn't necessarily start a big campaign or get wound up about it but it wouldn't "impress" me either.

Maybe if I knew the context I'd be as excited about the genius of pants as some pps seem to be.

ouryve · 04/03/2015 11:22

There's certain Shaun the Sheep episodes that have my 11yo running straight to his underwear drawer for a pair to put on his head.

I'm really sure the teacher wouldn't have been giving them all musty skidmarked pants to put on their heads. I honestly can't work out why you're getting your own knickers in a twist about it.

FinallyHere · 04/03/2015 11:27

My parents were very hard on a maths teacher who used occasionally just talk right through a class. In complaining about the waste, what they never took into consideration was how well we all did in that class.

Infact, after my first year at Uni, i was called in and reprimanded for wasting my time. They explained they couldn't throw me out because i had passed all my exams, based on the maths i obvious must have known before i turned up there. So maths teacher was doing something right.

I realise that story may not entirely convince you, but i urge you to consider how your children are doing in the lesson, can they answer questions and do they seem to understand what they are doing. If so, I'd suggest that its worth a few pairs of pants. HTH.

BringMeTea · 04/03/2015 11:42

finallyhere. That teacher would now be put on some kind of 'special measures' and subject to all kinds of hostile 'support', if not sacked outright. I know just the kind of teacher you mean. They are not 'allowed' to exist in schools any more. I think that is to the detriment of teaching.

DontWorrryBaldrickHasACunningP · 04/03/2015 12:30

OP (assuming this is real which I doubt) you are being utterly ridiculous, it sounds like your child enjoyed the lesson, engaged with the activity and most probably learnt something. Surly that's what is important, pants are just pants,