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

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StrongerThanIThought76 · 11/05/2017 16:00

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

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LouMumsnet · 11/05/2017 21:12

Evening all. We've had a fair few reports about this thread.

As we've said many times before, we don't want to see disablist posts on our Talkboards.

We want to help educate people so that they're not even thinking in a disablist way, let alone posting anything disablist on the boards.

But we know from experience that a heavy handed approach really doesn't work. Given that @StrongerThanIThought76 has apologised for her use of the word 'normal' in her OP, we're leaving it up. We think that her post has led to an interesting and valid discussion. We hope you agree.

We have, however, taken down a fair few goady and disablist posts, from other posters, which were reported and which we agree broke talk guidelines.

We'll continue to remove any posts which we consider to be disablist and we'll continue to delete threads which we feel are deliberately inflammatory. But we're not going to remove posts or threads which we feel are genuine questions and discussions and we feel that this thread, on the whole, falls into the latter category.

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