To ask you not to buy fidget spinners or any other shit and let your DCs take them to school?

[StrongerThanIThought76]

I'm a teacher. The current fad for Things To Piss The Teacher Off In Class is fidget spinners.

Before anyone jumps on me I recognise and accept that for some SEN kids they are a godsend. I know that. I really really do.

But there are so many kids that are now telling anyone in their vicinity that they are to help them focus etc etc.

NO THEY FUCKING DON'T!

They're a distraction not only to the kid in question, to the kids around you and to the poor sod at the front of the room trying to teach.

If your kid has SEN speak to the SENCO at school who will advise you if your kid would be allowed to have one. Even then (as it is in my school) they should only be used when appropriate.

If your kid is 'normal' then please don't send the damn TOYS into school. The only thing most kids should have in their hand during lessons is a pen or pencil!

And don't call in demanding that your kid gets their TOY back immediately - they've had it confiscated because they're pissing about in class. We wouldn't be happy with them playing with an Action Man or remote control car in class, and neither would you be.

Rant over. We have a hard enough time as it is in schools, keep the extra distraction out of the classroom please?

Thankyou

trifle
You are not doing it right.

I mean, you wouldn't expect an adult to sit there clicking their fidget cube. It'd drive everyone else bonkers! I have ASD and I have a bit of silky ribbon that I run through my fingers. I only take it out with me when I'm going to be in an unusually stressful situation and it's silent.

I'm an asd adult that clicks a fidget cube, really helps to calm me down and it's no louder then a keyboard tap a ribbon wouldn't work for me.

Trifle don't pretend you don't want to say it. You have form for revelling in posting goady disablist bollocks. You argued for days on end once about how you would refuse to move for a wheelchair user to access the bus. I think about the fact that my child could end up being taught by you and thank God I home educate.

true though

"My Mum says you can't take it off me because it's stealing" - thank you that mum.

Honestly...

I am a good teacher. I make the adjustments recommended. My issue isn't with the kids but with the - frankly daft - expectation that any one person can be all things to all people. It makes me sad and angry to see that my position is so little understood here.

oh lordy how did they all survive with out special figity things and syndromes
Who is they and what syndromes are you refering to, if your going to be a gf please be more specific, what syndrome are you thinking is made up/an excuse that people just got on with in the past?

My Mum says you can't take it off me because it's stealing" - thank you that mum.

Answer: "Tell your Mum it is for stealing. For me to steal it, I have to have the intention to permanently deprive you of it, I'm not, you can have it back after hometime".

oh lordy how did they all survive with out special figity things and syndromes

Pretty miserably. Do you want your child to "survive"? Or do you want them nurtured and cared for by equipping them with whatever physical or emotional support they need?

Children who had special needs were labelled with revolting terms. The "syndromes" aren't new. How we deal with them, thankfully, is.

*not stealing not FOR

Hahahaha, randomer, very funny.

I am also a secondary school teacher amd I am ashamed on your behalf OP at some.of the comments you have made . I am so glad I have never come across a teacher with an attitude like yours and your flippant use of careless terminology

Get yourself on a CPD course to raise your awareness a bit more

Haven't read the full thread but I've done a lot of public speaking lately and my fiddle cube is a God send, stops me swinging my arms and legs around unconsciously, helps me focus on projecting my voice and not umming, ahhing into the floor and accidentally swearing

I agree with you op. My son has asd but I think a spinner would distract him more than anything. I was also reading something interesting the other day that suggested they have a similar effects on the brain as looking at screens ie they may help focus while they are looking at them but focus becomes worse when you aren't presented with something as visually stimulating.
I have to say though as a parent of a child with SEND if I heard a teacher use the word 'normal' to describe someone without a disability any respect or working relationship that had been built up would be gone.

A tells me I am totally unreasonable and he's going to tell his mum about me and she'll have something to say about it

Yes - probably "Thank God for that, would you mind keeping the bloody thing till the end of term?"