how this teacher handled things

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After school club run by specialist teacher for 6 - 8 year olds, art, 3 weeks in.

I went to pick up dc8 and watched end of lesson through glass door.

Kids were tidying up - collecting pencils and pens and putting in box - they looked a bit tired and were a bit slow and day dreamy. Teacher suddenly emptied box of pencils which had been already been collected - emptied onto floor - and when the kids near him looked at him stupefied he shrugged, and after a moment they continued collected the pens including the emptied ones and putting in box.

Asked dc when he got out what had happened and he said the teacher had said that they were being too slow and so emptied out the pencils. I looked at him as if to say "what?" and he said that that was what had happened.

I don't want to give my views/my AIBU on this yet because I just wanted to know what other people's reactions would be first.

FWIW these are nice kids, can be quite lively but pipe down if told off quickly and generally do what they are told and pay attention.

thanks

Be wary of small children with tall tales!

Read the OP again

I don’t like this at all. It feels abusive and I don’t overuse that word (I think it is overused on mumsnet). Deliberately creating more mess to punish slow tidy up is horrible. They need to start tidying earlier or make it fun by putting on a song or the myriad other methods employed by teachers across the globe. That person should not be in charge of children.

I’d be down there like a cat out of a bag.

@Tvstar did you miss the bit where OP saw him do this with her own eyes? Or should she be wary of that too?

That wouldn't sit right with me at all. Similar to they type of thing I was subjected to as a child if DF decided we hadn't done something "fast enough" or "the right way", and just reading your OP had it hackles up so if I'd seen it first hand done in my DC's presence I would absolutely be speaking to the head.
To some it may not seem like a big deal, just a bit weird, but it's passive aggression because the teacher couldn't cope with the children not doing something how he wanted them to, and for a teacher with responsibility for their wellbeing as well as education, it's not ok.
Hope you got a decent response from the head, OP

Be wary? The op watched it happen through the window ffs

No I know the op saw him tip the pencils out. It is the alleged reason I am questioning. Maybe they needed to be put somewhere else or a sorted in some way

Jesus you’re reaching now! There is no justification for behaviour like that. Can you imagine if you didn’t put something away ‘properly’ and your boss tipped it all over the floor for you to do it again?! My god why do we allow our kids to be treated so shittily?!

To teach them to listen? If theywere our away wrongly whyshould it be the teacher to sort it out??

Are you on glue? Pouring pencils all over the floor is going to teach kids to listen? Fuck me. The stupid is real.

@tvstar he tipped them out and they all went back in the same container - there was nothing wrong with how it was done. It wouldn't teach them to listen in any event. It is an abuse of his position as adult, I think. As an adult, if he did that to you, would you pick up the balls without a murmur? Even if you had made a mistake, if he tipped them out on the floor and said you did it wrong, do it again, how would you feel, having to bend down and pick them up. And if you weren't even aware of what you had done wrong, and couldn't question it, how would you feel? Do you not think treating children like this is teaching them to treat people unkindly, without respect, and not to trust the adults around them?