to be upset by spider-killing teacher?!

[Glossymare]

Ds, age 8, tells me on our way home from school ‘my teachers a bit cruel. Today there was a spider on someone’s desk so she squashed it with her ruler. It was bleeding.’ I told him ‘that was cruel. She should have put it outside safely. How sad’.
Now, I don’t like spiders but I always get my husband or eldest son to take them outside because I’m too fucking scared too
But, this has really made me sad. What a shit example to set to children. AIBU?! I am premenstrual, so possibly a bit over emotional!

I've no sympathy for wasps. One of the fuckers stung me on the neck last week.

I’m not excusing the teacher’s actions at all - they shouldn’t have killed the spider. But since you’re too scared to take spiders outside yourself, what would you have done in the teacher’s position?

Ask one of the kids to remove it from the environs? REMOVE it, not chop its eight legs off.

@Awwlookatmybabyspider, will you be okay on this thread?

I’m sure if she’d offered 10 house points to the kind spider remover, she’d have had plenty of volunteers..

I'd kill the spider myself but am terrified of them I have no remorse for murdering spiders.. My dog is an arachnaterminator and he gets treats every time he does a good job 😂😂

Well it’s not ideal especially since respecting nature is one of the things taught in school. But the fact is that teachers are under immense time pressure to fit what they need into every lesson and if there is half a class of hysterical children they may not have the time to spare to fanny round with a glass and a piece of paper to safely dispose of the spider so they can continue to teach.
I think I’d have just said ‘ahh poor spider’ and got on with my day.

Btw, from the thread title, I would imagine people are going to mosey in thinking you've offed your kid's teacher, and are now regretting your decision...

Make her watch "Charlotte's Web" sob!!!!!

I'm terrified of spiders but I would NEVER kill one.

I'd be really put out by it if my DD told me this, not sure if there's anything I could do though, some people just don't have respect for living beings, no matter how small and helpless 😢

And I’m sure an 8yr old would have removed it quickly with minimum fuss while the rest of the class remained engaged in the lesson

Don't know whether it's true, but I've been told that indoor spiders can't cope with outdoors so you shouldn't put them outside. I always put them in the cupboard under my stairs just in case (the cupboard under my stairs does not appear to be full of spiders though!)

And I’m sure an 8yr old would have removed it quickly with minimum fuss while the rest of the class remained engaged in the lesson hmm

I'm doubt everyone would have remained engaged - any more than they did when teacher bludgeoned the poor wee thing - but hopefully there would have been one reasonably levelled headed, non fearty among the 20 something kids?

btw, I don't think the teacher killing the spider set a particularly wonderful example and wouldn't be thrilled. Maybe she is hugely phobic and panicked...

Has the thread title changed?

Pop it out the window?!

Not all classrooms have windows that you can open. Plus, if it's not on the ground floor, you'd have children traumatised by the poor spider being dropped two floors or whatever it is.

Has it occurred to all the advocates of the glass/piece of card method that glasses aren't necessarily readily available in classrooms?

You probably should be upset by a spider killing your teacher, but I can't decide if you should be upset by a teacher killing a spider.

It probably would have died after being 'popped outside' anyway.

Thank you MNHQ

They serve dead animals to the kids everyday. What's the difference?

Whether the kid was scared or not it could easily have ended up on a farcical 10 minute spider chase. Whack and in the bin over in seconds.
I don’t kill spiders btw but I can see why the teacher did.

She could have coerced the spider into a cup and put out the window. I do that if I'm home alone. Am very scared of big ones but wouldn't kill one.

A horrible thing to do to a harmless creature in a classroom full of children.

Well, last time I checked they didn’t operate a slaughter house in the school hall @RoboJesus

I get rattlesnakes in my garden. I capture them using a shovel and a bucket and take them back into the sagebrush and release them. (They wave goodbye with their tails).

A few months ago my dogs found a huge rattlesnake under my weeping mulberry. They barked and then hauled arse. Old rattler was too agitated by the dogs to safely remove - he was coiled and striking, so I herded him by squirting him with water from the hose. He won't come back out of the nice dry sagebrush for a while.

Needless to say I don't think much of people who kill things they don't like.

@Glossymare how would you know? And why would it matter?

She could have coerced the spider into a cup and put out the window.

Yes; my classroom is literally full of cups just waiting for this purpose...

@RoboJesus I don’t even have the words