to be a bit bemused by the teacher this morning?

[TeainaChinaCup]

DD started school this morning. The teacher issued all of the parents with a copy of a wanky poem about realising these are our babies but now they are hers too (no they aren't), plus a tea bag and a biscuit.

Is this normal?! It was a bit schmaltzy twee for me.

You know OP someone said it upthread but teacher was definitely giving you all the 2 fingers wasn't she!! A bugger off and let me do my job tea pack.

It is sweet - but I think a miniature gin would be more acceptable.

I think it was very well intentioned and she was trying to do something nice but I don't like it at all. A teacher is not there to love your children! That's your job! I can't overemphasise how important a great teacher/child relationship is, it makes teaching and learning so much more effective but love ....no, that's not my job. (I'm a primary teacher of 26 years)

The tea bag and biscuit is a lovely idea but a poem.. on the first day of school? OTT to me but I know plenty of parents would have eaten that up and sang her praises for being best teacher ever.

DD's class was given a poem by their teacher at the end of last term. She had known the children for a few years and was moving away to a different school. The poem is lovely and it is something DD will keep.

Gah, don't they learn anything in teacher training colleges about the need for poems to scan?

TeaInAChinaCup if this was an East Dun primary you have to NAME AND SHAME.

If someone had given that to me on my eldest's first day of P1 I may have been a bit bemused. By the time my third was starting I would have puked all over the twee little letter and scoffed the chocolate. Just awful.

Urgh, woman up.

My child started P1 at and EDC school and it most certainly wasn't hers.

How awful of her for making an effort. I hope someone went straight to the top and made a complaint.

I do think i would have thought it rather sweet. [ The original posters poem not the other posted. That would make me puke!]

All reception parents were given a poem/tissue/kit-kat/teabag pack when my DD started last September. Didn't get one three years ago when DS started. I was fine when DS started. Second time around, I got home and the bastard poem made my cry.

The only G&T register your child is on Or ever will be Is the Gin and Tonic register the teacher keeps for the end of the week.

I LOVE this. And so true.

It's a shame the poem is so very badly written. I have a massive pet hate of letters from school with bad grammar/spelling/punctuation (poetic licence aside, of course....still badly written though!)

The thought is very sweet though.

I like the kit Kat (of course it's a biscuit, are you all mad?) and tea bag idea but the poem makes me squirm. A df got a similar poem and it scanned so very, very badly that it made me fear for their future poetry-learning opportunities.

You should have vomited on her.

Really, what a load of sugary nonsense.

And there's nothing worse than teachers who refer to 'my children', 'my babies' etc, meaning their pupils.

She is just trying to start the relationship with the parents as she means it to go on, it wasn't necessary but she went out her way to do it anyway. I don't think it's anything to make a big thing over. I'm sure you weren't the only one who didn't like the idea but most people just accept it for what it is, no big deal. My DS started P1 last year but the teachers didn't do anything like that, wouldn't have minded a kitkat lol

How awful of her for making an effort. I hope someone went straight to the top and made a complaint.

So as long as we 'make an effort' in the course of our nauseating/inappropriate/plain awful behaviour, it's all good?

Alrighty, I'll make a note of that for the next time I get the urge to do something anti-social.

She is just trying to start the relationship with the parents as she means it to go on, it wasn't necessary but she went out her way to do it anyway.

That's exactly the problem isn't it?

You could grit your teeth through an hour of sickly-sweet inapproriateness. Possibly.

But she's just declared her intent; she's told a roomful of parents 'your babies are now mine too' (Bleurgh, I feel dirty even typing that.)

1. VOM
2. No they're bloody well not you idiot.

She is just trying to start the relationship with the parents as she means it to go on, it wasn't necessary but she went out her way to do it anyway.

That's exactly the problem isn't it?

You could grit your teeth through an hour of sickly-sweet inapproriateness. Possibly.

But she's just declared her intent; she's told a roomful of parents 'your babies are now mine too' (Bleurgh, I feel dirty even typing that.)

1. VOM
2. No they're bloody well not you idiot.

I just don't understand the wailing and crying and snot everywhere over their kids starting school. They will be there for six fucking hours, not going off to bloody war.

I have a friend who cries every time her child does anything. First day at nursery, leaving nursery, first day at school, leaving primary, first residential ... the child is now in high school. Still refers to her as 'her baby' and still fucking cries over every single thing she does. I find it just too much.

I never got a kit kat when either of mine started school. I did have six free hours to buy my own kitkats though.

Your OP sounds bitchy written down, but I'd have cringed my arse off if she'd passed it to me, so YANBU.

I dont get the tears either. I feel free!!!!

I just threw up a little in my mouth.

No you didn't.

Hope there is only one P1 class at your school - if not, what have the other teachers done? Imagine the conflict if they are feeling a bit

It's well-intentioned and she is trying to demonstrate compassion and understanding. Some parents will appreciate the gesture, others won't. At least she was trying to be nice (in a world where niceness and kindness can be a rare thing).