Would I be unreasonable to correct the teacher?

[Horthnangerabbey]

It is a minor thing really but if the teacher had told the class something that you knew was wrong, would you tell her? Or would you just explain to your own child the correct info and keep quiet?

Wikipedia - which is of course to be believed in all circumstances - is telling me badgers eat small mammals, including hedgehogs

The woodland trust agrees they are omnivorous

www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2016/06/what-do-badgers-eat/
Badgers are known to eat small mammals mice, rats, rabbits, frogs, toads and hedgehogs.

They will also take advantage of animal carcasses and carrion they come across.

They will eat nuts, seeds and acorns along with crops like wheat and sweetcorn.

But which is the best conductor, gold or Jane Austen? That's the real question.

Jane probably conducted some intercourse in the shrubbery at some point. They were forever doing that.

Badgers do eat small mammals but generally it would be a litter of rat pups or rabbit kittens they would kill and eat.

OK, I think that if this were at Y6 level or similar I might have a word with my child about it and perhaps mention it to the teacher if I saw him/her. But at GCSE level, I would not be able to let this one go. You're right, if the entire class gets it wrong then this will not go well for them in the exam. I wouldn't say that was minor at all. I would also be concerned about a GCSE-level English teacher not actually knowing this.

Jane probably conducted some intercourse in the shrubbery at some point.

Are kids being taught this?

Eg if they tell a bunch of teenagers that condoms are pointless, I would correct. If they spelled privilege 'privelege', I wouldn't.

I wouldn't be able to shut up about the second one either,

I did a stint of student teaching in a little village school (2 teachers, about 35 kids aged 5-11)
One child asked me to write spaghetti in her spelling book, so I did. next day, I saw that the teacher had 'corrected' it to spageti.
The other teacher, having been asked the proper name for the Northern Lights, replied "um, Laura Bayliss"
This was in 1989, not the dark ages.

toast it's in Pride and Prejudice. To be fair,the word intercourse has somewhat shifted in meaning. It's the only bit of the tedium/ alleged social comedy that makes me guffaw!

I am a TA. I had to explain that the Great Fire of London didn't happen n Tudor times to my class teacher, and had to put the timeline right!
She was quite surprised...and she's not a Young thing! Science is her thing though, not history. I'm just a clever-clogs.

Horthanger badgers eat babies?

I only know because of Watership Down. Towards the beginning a badger disturbs the rabbits and Bigwig confirms they most probably weren’t in any danger but that badgers will kill a litter of young if they find them.

Is Adrian Mole on this thread?

Note from his son's nursery teacher: "William has told me that you called me a liar, and questioned my assertion that birds do not habitually sleep in their nests. I refer you to the book The Birds in your Garden." And Adrian Mole actually rings up the publisher to try to confirm this.

Apparently there is a severe teacher shortage. (Fact, or government lies statistics?) Well, I think we've found out from this thread where to find the paragons of teaching perfection: Mumsnet! (Lighthearted joke by the way, blah blah blah. Attribute helpful for being a teacher, according to the Penguin Careers Guide: sense of humour.)

My favourite was a history lesson in which the CT modelled a biography of Elizabeth II (our current Queen) and wrote movingly of her relationship with her mother, Elizabeth I.

That’s why I thought mentioning it in a way that assumes the teacher made a simple error and you just want to check the rest of the class got it right.
Once ds had a terrible urine infection, no one had slept for days. I wrote on a note to explain why we couldn’t make it to a party that he had a uterine infection. I know the difference, slip of the pen. Maybe the teacher did the same.

I'm a secondary TA and have learned to appear inscrutable while making sure that my designated child has the right answer written down.

Eg underline all the verbs in a passage. We underlined is and am even though the answer sheet didn't give these.

Christ, it's no wonder badgers are massive and too slow to cross the road without getting splatted - the greedy buggers!!

I’m 60 now. When I was about 10 my mum challenged me to learn a new word every week. I learned “gargantuan” and used it in story written at School. I was a right little swot I know but I still remember sense of injustice as the teacher told me it wasn’t a proper word in front of the class. Part of it was the realisation that teachers are not infallible so will have to be handled carefully. I would correct privately with teacher. Any teacher worth their salt would say to class
“ do you know I got something wrong and I only just realised”
The correct info will stick in their m8nds even more for that admission I would have thought.

I utterly fail to see what was soooo hilarious out the whole copper/gold parents evening conversation?
Was the head teacher contacting you so you could both laugh at the teacher being corrected ? Why was this conversation public? Please tell me I've understood this wrong. Also smug humble bragging as well
Just buy the poor teacher a bottle of wine they need it dealing with parents like you

"That whole copper/ gold conversation at parent's evening just sounds really obnoxious to me. You were trying not to explode with laughter, really?"

To me too. Not a good example for the child either who'll probably grow up like most of us to sometimes get silly orders from superiors at work and 'corrections' to our work. Sometimes, you've just got to live with it.

but I wasn't sure about the best so told her to ask her dad, who has a PhD in a related subject. He looked it up for her (did not know off the top of his head) and if memory serves me right, I think it is gold that is marginally better, but not by much.

Sorry but to go back to this, your DH with an actual PHD in the subject didn’t actually know and yet you still went in with printouts and acted like obnoxious busybodies!?

And judging by subsequent posts, you weren’t even right!

OP, YANBU. In your situation, a nice email ‘querying’ would be the step i’d take.

As a trainee teacher (recently) I was horrified by the lack of general knowledge of both my fellow trainees (shockingly nonacademic people on the whole though I suspect that was just my course) and also the vast majority of teachers in schools I trained in. This was in primary so I would expect very good cross-curricular knowledge, but this wasn't the case at all.
Considering we were in London and almost all of the other trainees were born and raised in London the fact that only 4 out of 22 of us knew that the Great Fire was 1666, and was preceded by plague.

*was shocking.
My phone ate some of that post.

"Same teacher asked the class how you could tell a mammal from a reptile and DS answered that they feed their young on milk. She told him he was incorrect and that mammals all give birth to live young (not eggs)."

Aren't both of these right so the teacher wasn't making a mistake, just not accepting an alternative answer?