To not find this funny

[maplehoney]

Teacher boasting about making a child cry.

Why would you think that is something to be proud of??

Reanimated You're not a teacher who likes to make children cry are you? I would suggest that any teacher who needs to pretend that they have made a child cry to deal with the stress of being a teacher should really NOT be a teacher.

This sounds like the sort of black humour teachers (like medics and emergency service personnel) sometimes share with colleagues as a way of dealing with job stress.

Yep. It's pretty obviously that.

No, it is a colleague. I just don’t understand why they think upsetting children is something to be proud of

I would suggest that any teacher who needs to pretend that they have made a child cry to deal with the stress of being a teacher should really NOT be a teacher.

It's fair enough not to share a sense of humour with someone. It's weird to imagine their sense of humour indicates anything about their competence at a job.

If it's a colleague then I personally would have challenged it. Are they renowned to being a strict teacher by the pupils?

Def wasn’t an embarrassed laugh? With an the latter comment being in a self deprecating way? Like “I feel so guilty about it, I’m so shit I make a kid cry once a month” iyswim?

maplehoney If this person is a colleague then you ,too, work with children and are duty bound, surely, to report this behaviour. Jesus, it's bad enough that we can't rely on schools to protect our kids from bullying from other children, now the teachers are at it. If you ignore you're complicit. But then you know that.

No, it was definitely a boast!

I think it is probably black humour. Twenty years with the police, I have heard some really caring colleagues say things that could be taken really badly by the public but it is the way they deal with bad stuff or stuff they don't like.

I can't think of a teacher that I have worked with that hasn't made a child cry (normally for setting a detention).

There is a difference between making a child cry and boasting or taking pleasure out of making a child cry.

Jesus, it's bad enough that we can't rely on schools to protect our kids from bullying from other children, now the teachers are at it.

There is literally no information from the OP at all, to base this speculation on. OP has not replied to any requests for context.

Luckily for those who (like OP) appear on MN one day and immediately launch threads like this, there are always those willing to leap on a bandwagon.

@OP If you really heard a teacher actually saying they were purposefully mean to a child to make them cry, and being clearly serious, then of course report it.

In my whole career, I've known one teacher be genuinely nasty to kids. I did report her.

Very few teachers at struggling state schools don't have a dark sense of humour.

I would laugh. Black sense of humour. It didn't sound like a boast (meaning statement of pride) as written. It sounded like black sense of humour because the job is sometimes uncomfortable but it's not possible to do the job properly without letting the uncomfortable moments happen.

I have 'made' a child cry many times. Only I have never made them. I have spoken and they have cried. Normally because they are so pissed off that they have detention/phone removed/can't keep behaving the way they can.
I have also spoken to colleagues about it but not a boast - just an observation.
This week I made a child cry who nazi saluted and shouted 'burn the jews'. Not a boast but I am quite glad he cried when he realised that his parents were being contacted and he was in big trouble.

Its dark teacher humour.

It’s a colleague? So you’re teachers at the same school? Bloody hell, can you give us some decent context instead of 1-sentence drip feeds?!

Its not bullying unless it was done infront of the child. Some weeks you just get a lot of criers and its easy to become flippant about it especially as often 5-10 minutes the child will be happily laughing, playing, planning their next misdemeanor etc

And as pieceofpurplesky rightly points out sometimes a child crying can be a positive thing in the long run

Former SW. Also made, and heard, jokes which would make your hair curl if you weren't in the business. It's therapy. Unless my colleagues were all silently judging and starting threads about me!

Spit it out op, like all of it please...

I love these one line responses

Riveting

Why start a thread of you're not going to give all the information?

I would report her to the LA and school governors. What a monster. She shouldn't be teaching IMHO.