AIBU to be annoyed the teacher was telling the children how she didn't believe in the moon landings ?

[SpaceAhoy]

My 10yo DS came home from school today and told me that his teacher didn't believe in the moon landings.

I asked how this conversation started but he wasn't sure as he was reading his book as instructed.

He said the teacher did a class wide poll and everyone agreed with her accept him and one other pupil.

AIBU to be annoyed at the teacher for bringing her personal beliefs into the classroom?

Oh dear. That calls for a long, long talk.

Well, at least following on from the moon landings issue you can say Well, I have a lot of respect for teacher but they clearly know nothing about science as shown by their views on the moon landings. You can't change sex … So easier given the lead in.

An opinion is coffee is nicer than tea. Saying the moon landings are fake is ignorant and quite frankly stupid

This!!

Complain by all means, but be aware that your DS may have got the wrong end of the stick.

A student's parents once complained that I had told the class 'atheists are stupid'. I had done nothing of the sort. What I had done as part of a KS3 philosophy class was respond to a student's declaring 'people who believe in god are stupid' by suggesting that some believers might say exactly the same about atheists and so we needed to move beyond trading insults.

How the complainant got from my statement to hers, I can only imagine. Red faces from parents when I explained (and added that I was an atheist myself).

Just don't go in all guns blazing until you've heard the other side!

Diversity week, hence the changing sex lesson today.

But no-one can change sex ever.

The transgender belief system is both scientifically unsupported and homophobic. I don't want my kids to learn to be either.

So back to school again tomorrow and I hate confrontation but that doesn't mean I can let this crap slid :(

Sign on the window I have already spoken to the first lady about the moon landings and she admitted it...So DS did not get it wrong.

Today he was very clear. He mentioned the following.

Puberty blockers. To stop puberty.
Being born into the wrong body
This happens to teenagers.
Cross sex hormones. (No mention of the sterility and higher cancer risk)
Boy and girl stereotypes.

He said two girls spoke out to say they were tomboys, not transgender. (Let's hope they can get though puberty without being pushed down the trans route. Seeing as they have just been taught, they are really boys as they like boys things...FFS)

Different member of teaching staff to the moon one, which is very worrying :(

context is everything. I too don't follow for the sake of it and question the moon landings.

The Biology A Level teacher is a creationist. It really beggars belief. Most the kids I teach are creationists. I used to be quite understanding of this in my earlier teacher days, but now I just say that evolution is a fact.

It's always the religious ones that don't believe in it, and unfortunately the vast majority of my cohort are fundamentalists (they literally believe that what their book says is true).

Is this a state school by any chance?

**The Biology teacher in my school

AIBU to feel a little long-conned by this thread?

WereFox Ask Mumsnet they will confirm I have been on here for years under my normal name. Clearly name changed for this thread.

Narnia, Pink Peter etc

I've been in a class of 10 year olds where the teacher said that Jesus is the only human to ever come back from the dead 😱

Wrong on two counts even if you are a Christian, and as a 10 year old who went to a religious foundation school I would have said
(a) but he was born of the Holy Ghost and the Virgin Mary, so not entirely human though he died as one
(b) what about Lazarus? Jairus's daughter? the resurrection at Nain?

I look forward to hearing what the OPs DS learns about the Brexit deal!!!

Lol, I will ask them tomorrow should Need It...why not !

On a serious note. Do I have the right to withdraw his younger brother from such inaccurate lessons ? If I do, how do I am sure this actually happens?

Not normal lessons just moon landing glass and sex change ones only.

I don’t believe in the conspiracy either but I wouldn’t even bat an eyelid if one of my kids came home and said their teacher did! What a good way opportunity to explain to your son that people sometimes differ in their opinions, and it is absolutely not okay to call her thick or stupid, as some people are on here. Raise your son better than those.

It’s fine to say that she’s wrong though. The opinion is not deserving of respect.

He is more upset that an adult, he adored had come to a completely different conclusion than he had. Plus he doesn't understand how feelings, could alter facts.

He is learning that some adults base their opinions on feeling not facts and sometimes they will be wrong.