To think DD’s teacher shouldn’t have said this?

[Rainallnight]

DD and I bumped into her Year 1 teacher outside school this afternoon.

DD said to her, ‘are you going home?’ And teacher said, ‘yes, it’s the best part of the day’.

AIBU to think it’s a slightly shitty thing to say to a little kid who’s in your care all day?

Genuinely interested to know if I’m being over-sensitive.

@Rainallnight

They do!

But it was useful to hear some alternative viewpoints too.

I'm not sure it's an alternative viewpoint.

You seem to be the only one who thought it was an awful thing to say.

Great you accept you're wrong but I think the fact you thought it when no one else wouldn't have even batted an eyelid doesn't give you the right to then act all high and mighty for lots of replies to the thread.

You don't get to decide when it ends! There's space for 1000 replies

Hmm. Now being a bit sensitive and pissed off you’ve so many replies?

It’s called a joke lighten up

Maybe a bit insensitive yes but I'm sure your dd will day the same, as all of us, leaving work or school is the best part of the day! Likely said in a jokey way but also we're all human. Overthinking it.

@Rainallnight

Are you all still here? I said hours ago I accepted I was being unreasonable

You aren't the Thought Police.
First the teacher isn't allowed to tell your child that going home is the best part of her day.

Now we aren't permitted to discuss it on a thread for longer than you would like us to.

Are you going to publish a list of topics and how long people should discuss those topics?

Poor teacher, she can't even make a joke.
It's like walking on eggshells with some parents.

Oh give over! How dare the teacher have a little joke. I suggest you don't interact with the teacher outside of the classroom in future just in case they show their human side again.

@CallMeRisley

So she’s meant to prefer spending 5 hours with your little darling over going home, taking off her bra, stuffing chocolate in her face and cuddling her own kids? It’s lighthearted OP.

😂😂😂 @CallMeRisley true true and true…just replace chocolate with cider!!! After a tricky day at school it’s what I deserve!!! Think about a teachers role, the millions of different people they have to be in one day, the various hats they wear! It’s a jokey throw away comment

@Supergirl1958 Yep, I’m a teacher too (currently on maternity leave). As much as I love seeing those smiling little faces coming through the door each morning, the breakthrough moments when they “get” something new we are learning and their angelic little voices singing Cauliflowers Fluffy (), going home is still the best part of the day!

It was just something you say isn't it ?
I wonder how some people survive when nobody can say anything anymore without being flamed or pulled apart!

It’s a very unprofessional thing for a Year 1 teacher to say. YANBU at all.

[quote CallMeRisley]@Supergirl1958 Yep, I’m a teacher too (currently on maternity leave). As much as I love seeing those smiling little faces coming through the door each morning, the breakthrough moments when they “get” something new we are learning and their angelic little voices singing Cauliflowers Fluffy (), going home is still the best part of the day![/quote]
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@Sheerdetermination it depends how it was said.The children in my Year 1 class get so excited about seeing their parents or the weekend. They would smile and see it as a little joke the teacher is making.

@RedskyThisNight

It's probably your child's best part of the day as well.

This

I don't think it is unresonable for then to enjoy going home at the end of the day, I do think saying that to a 6/7 year old is uncalled for.

OMG, you have way worse to come from school if you think this is bad. Comment from my son's new teacher last week when his hand caught in a pair of scissors as he was giving them to another child: "Oh, I remember you from Yr2 (2 years ago), you were always grabbing things." My problem: 1. Two years is a long time in a kid's life at that age so he can't change? 2. Just so negative and box putting on the first day back at school.
But I just let it go.

Hmmmm there's a general courtesy thou isn't there? I'd not appreciate a comment like that tbh. I get that it's exhausting, work generally is, but it's generally poor manners to be negative like that in that context to a parent, esp when it's likely children are around. However, it's not really grounds to do anything about it by itself.

Literally anyone who works thinks home time is the best part of the day. Get a grip

She should not have said that.
Makes it sound like she don't want to be there.

@mrbreezeet1

She should not have said that. Makes it sound like she don't want to be there.

How many people do you know who do want to be at work, rather than home, after their shift finishes?

On dd2’s first day of school I heard her teacher loudly ask “is it July yet?”

I found it funny. But then I did know the teacher quite well.

@LiamGallagherIsHot

Within a few minutes of starting her thread and getting answers telling her she was being unreasonable, OP admitted she was wrong and wrote,

Ok, hands up! I’m being over sensitive. Good to have the reality check.

2 hours later people are still telling her. 🙄 SHE KNOWS! 😬

I was a teacher for ten years… and this is by far the most intelligent response here! Although I’m sorry but I can’t agree about Liam Gallagher 😂 But you know, each to their own 😜

Actually I don't think the OP does 'know'. She dwelt on the incident long enough to get her child home and then write about it on the internet. She then accepted that she was in the wrong, but then came back to say she was happy to read alternative views.

My rough estimate is that currently nearly 1900 mumsnetters disagree with the OP - yet she is welcoming the alternative views.

I will just leave it with this. Teachers are human. They like their own kids more than they like your kids. get over it.

Definitely over sensitive. Going home is my favourite bit of the day.

I think that’s pretty rude of her. Clearly I’m in the minority