Is this inappropriate?

[LuxuryMilk]

I got taken to one side at school pick up today to talk about an inappropriate conversation my child had had today.
Apparently they were sticking a picture of a skeleton in their book as part of the schoolwork, DC pointed to the pubic area and said something along the lines of “that’s where the willy is. Girls have a private too but theirs has a cut down it”. I assume he means the labia.

I didn’t have time to talk for long and she also spoke about another incident so didn’t have time to take it in, but now I’m back home I’m struggling to see what the big deal is. Aibu?

Completely fine, total overreaction by the teacher. Your ds was totally correct.

If a teacher wants to write it down very time a 7 year old boy talks about willies she's going to need a really big book...

I think it's worthy of a talk about when it is and isn't deemed acceptable to talk about genitals but I really don't think it's something that needs recording.

As people have said before, it's the use of the word "cut" which sounds odd. Fgm is a serious issue.

If it was totally out of the blue, yes, inappropriate. But I take it this was an anatomy lesson? In which case, this should have been praised, not censured. 'Well done, Billy, for correctly identifying the pelvis! And yes, our genitals are located in the pelvic cavity. That was very clever of you, have a gold star.'

Sh*t like this shuts down learning. He might hesitate to make another brilliant connection to other knowledge for fear it will be the wrong context for an observation.

To a 7 yr old a woman's genitalia will look like a 'cut'. I doubt very much he knows anything about fgm.
Nothing like clamping down on pupils independant thinking to keep them and parents in thier place is there?

Teacher over reacted. The boy was right, he made an anatomically correct observation. If the teacher cant just say thats right thats where 'they' (insert appropriate parts) are and move on they have a big problem.

Well it wasn’t about FGM, they just felt saying the name of body parts was inappropriate

I’m back home I’m struggling to see what the big deal is.

You and me both.

Wasn’t sure what to say to DS so just said not to mention bums and willys in class as apparently not all children know about them. Not sure what else I can say tbh.

If children don't know about body parts - including intimate ones - by age 7 I despair. How would they be able to communicate PANTS concerns?

I think the teacher's reaction was inappropriate. She should have explained that women have a vagina, not a cut. Ridiculous for a teacher - who's teaching kids about the body - to take that view.

I'd want to go in and ask about their sex Ed policy then! My dd had session about the proper names of parts and the pants rule at school by then!

Really ??? Talking about body parts when putting a skeleton together is inappropriate? Ffs the teacher is ott. A teacher once told me that goosebumps books were inappropriate for my 10 yr old ds my reply was well why are you selling them then ? It was world book day and i had bought them from the school

Ridiculous.