teacher commenting on my dd eyebrows

[Boxerdogmum]

im a bit stuck. im bringing up dd 11 years old to make her own choices she is hitting puberty and has chosen to just be at one with her own body hair. armpit hair and so on and i'm so proud of her. much more self confidence than i ever had at her age. recently she told me that one of her female teachers stopped at her desk looked at her and said you might want to just lick your finger and sort out your eyebrow hair there. shes not exactly frida kahlo but it made her feel very self conscious. AIBU to hunt this teacher down and hold her to account?

Unless there are an awful lot of very hirsute 11 year olds around, I struggle with the notion that a child of that age is likely to have anything so remarkable wrong with their eyebrows that a teacher needs to comment on them. I gave up on plucking my eyebrows years ago, they look absolutely fine, and I've never had to deal with the phenomenon of hairs sticking up or going in the "wrong" direction, nor have I ever noticed it on other people, male or female.

Just leave it OP! The school can do without this pointless problem

What did parents do in the days before emails? Did they send in hand written notes of complaint every day?

Tell your daughter, next time somebody comments on her personal appearance and makes her uncomfortable she speaks up for herself in an assertive but polite way.

How the fuck can so many people give a shit about this.

@lemonsquashie Rather depends if teachers are foisting their own bizarre body hang ups onto the children.

Deadringer

I think people are reading it wrong to be be honest. Or perhaps we are?

I don’t think the teacher was commenting on it in a they should be plucked way, more like a ‘you’ve got pen on your face’ / your mascara is smeared way.

And I think it’s bizarre that they think teachers should never ever make a personal comment to a student.

I just hope and pray that I never have to teach the kids of the uptight idiots on this thread.