Is this an acceptable thing to say?

[summerlovinggirl]

My DS (9, nearly 10) has come home from school today and asked what verbal diarrhoea is? I asked him why he would ask and he told me that his teaching assistant said that he was talking verbal diarrhoea when they were discussing the project that they’re all doing.
I’m not normally precious at all over things like this, but my gut reaction is it’s a really rude thing to say to a child.
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m aware my DS can talk utter crap at times but to say it to him in that matter just sits wrong with me. At patents evening the other day, full time teacher said DS was very polite and always added good ideas and opinions within class.
So am I being silly to think anything of this or has the assistant been rude.

The words are rushing out, perhaps with no consideration for somebody else. The term chatterbox would be more appropriate unless your DC is really going on and on and then they could say to let somebody else get a word in edgeways.

To those who say to raise a concern with the teacher. Really? Get some better problems.

Acceptable & even educational as per establish meaning and use

Perfectly acceptable phrase, not rude at all.

I think that's a darn rude thing to say to anyone, child or adult!

To all the teachers out there, have a on me - wish I could buy you all a real one to express my condolences. Cannot believe that people add to your already big workload by troubling you with such petty complaints as this.

I’m trying and failing to imagine who in their senses would be offended by the term verbal diarrhoea. Really sad. But I hope all of those that do find it offensive feel much better when there aren’t enough teachers left in the profession to actuallly teach their precious snowflakes - the bright graduates will move into other careers that pay better and where they aren’t constantly challenged by people who make taking offence into an art form.

Do some people take this metaphor so literally they think it means actually talking shit!? No metaphor is meant to be taken literally.

If you have been educated adequately, you will know - and possibly get the point - of the image.

By the way the person who used the expression was a teaching assistant not a teacher.

...know - and possibly get the point of - the image.

I don't think it's an appropriate thing for a TA to say. They should be saying like 'it sounds like you've loads of ideas about this, maybe we should hear other people's ideas' which is positive but basically says shush! I think you need to raise this with the class teacher.

To blueink etc... this is cause for concern. I'm looking from a school perspective as well as a parent. If I did this, I'd certainly be called to the Deputy Head's office.

You'd be called to the deputy for a jokey term with what, y5 or 6 kids?!
Wow. Strict school.
It's a jokey term, it's not offensive, it means they can't stop talking. Not sure why or how it would be unacceptable to anybody

And this is one of the many reasons I left teaching. Every last word is analysed by some parents to prove that the teacher was disrespectful to their little snowflake.

OP, your DS was talking A LOT and probably annoying the crap out of everyone. It happens! Verbal diarrhoea is when someone can’t stop talking. It’s nothing. Stop making an issue, if you honestly believe that the staff at the school would make a comment meaning that your DS talks crap then why on earth is he in that school? I wouldn’t have to think twice about what my DS’s teacher meant if she made this comment to him.

I occasionally wonder why both my parents suffered from crippling depression for years. Oh yeah they were teachers, some of the shit they had to deal with beggars belief (and that’s just the parents).

This thread is nuts. Verbal diarrhoea just means someone won’t stop talking. It’s not meant it a derogatory way.

Honestly baffled that anyone could be offended by it.

I don't think it's an appropriate thing for a TA to say. They should be saying like 'it sounds like you've loads of ideas about this, maybe we should hear other people's ideas' which is positive but basically says shush! I think you need to raise this with the class teacher.

Wow! Or the TA could have been lighthearted instead of intense and boring,

Oh wait... she was.

We use the term 'word vomit' in my classroom.

"Class, today we are going to be looking at multiplication...."

"I have a pink dinosaur at home."

Really? I feel so sorry for teachers who have to pacify precious parents as well as try and teach kids who are so full of themselves they don't stop talking.

It was probably meant as a jokey way of saying that he can talk the leg off a chair. But kids love potty humor. Not bad.

This thread is bleak, I can't believe so many posters are pissing their knickers about a totally inoffensive lighthearted phrase!

In school I had a history teacher who would sometimes joke about students, or herself having "verbal diarrhoea", "word vomit" or "brain farts" It helped humanised her to 27 teenagers and added a bit of humour to long classes.

YABU your hurt feelings aren't powerful enough to change the meaning of words and phrases. Jesus wept.

This thread is bleak, I can't believe so many posters are pissing their knickers about a totally inoffensive lighthearted phrase!

Me neither when I think that I got caned most days when I was in primary school.

I don't think it's an appropriate thing for a TA to say. They should be saying like 'it sounds like you've loads of ideas about this, maybe we should hear other people's ideas' which is positive but basically says shush! I think you need to raise this with the class teacher.

Oh FFS ...

Always taken this to mean talking a load of rubbish. However in the context of the classroom would guess teacher was meaning talking too much. Not the most appropriate way for a teacher to address your DS though.

Wilburissomepig

I don't think it's an appropriate thing for a TA to say. They should be saying like 'it sounds like you've loads of ideas about this, maybe we should hear other people's ideas' which is positive but basically says shush! I think you need to raise this with the class teacher.

Oh FFS ...

Succinctly put. The ghastly “...loads of ideas...”suggestion is surely worth a lol.