My son (aged 12) came home from school today and told me a joke that his teacher had told him.
I know the teacher and it's likely true as he often tells my son jokes to cheer him up. But this particular joke in my opinion is racist and I'm really annoyed that he would teach it to children. It's a joke poking fun at Chinese names.
I've spoken to my son and he won't repeat it and was unaware it was racist. My son has learning difficulties and goes to a special needs school so wouldn't have recognised it as racist, especially coming from a teacher.
The teacher isn't English so I don't know if he would have recognised it as racist before telling it to other children but I would have thought so.
Am I overreacting or would you say something to school? My partners logic is he's 12 and will hear worse we just have to teach him it's not appropriate, which would be fine if it was a child telling the joke but a teacher gives the impression it's acceptable to repeat without checking with me as he normally would.