Irresponsible text on homework

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DD1 is in Year 1 and got a weird text for her homework.

The text is about a boy who wakes up in the middle of the night and sneaks into the kitchen to eat chocolate cake.

AIBU to think this is totally inappropriate and irresponsible?.... These kids are 5/6 years old, they don't need to be encouraged to have this kind of unhealthy and also deceitful behaviour (the boy complains the floor creaks and is going to wake up his parents).

It's a Michael Rosen poem and the mother gets upset with the boy in the morning when she finds out. However the excerpt in the homework doesn't include this last part.

It's quite a fun poem but for older children who know better..... and maybe not something to show at school....

Please tell me this is a joke and not a poster so genuinely joyless they can find something to sniff about in a Michael Rosen poem?!

Oh dear op, you have no idea what’s ahead, do you?!

Chocolate Cake by Michael Rosen is a classic!

What kind of stories do you read with your children if even the most lighthearted naughtiness is off the table?

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I’m a teacher. Our Head loves to read this poem in whole school assemblies.
I adore the video of Michael Rosen reciting it and I have shown it to my classes… it is universally loved from Y1 to Y6.

Get a grip.

Don't be one of those parents. It's exhausting for everyone involved.

Just wait until they start reading Roald Dahl.

I’m assuming this is a reverse and you’re actually the teacher annoyed a parent has complained?

Contact OFSTED. Write a strongly worded letter to the school. Write to your MP. If I were you I'd even hang around the school gates after school and tell the other parents about it. YANBU!

I'm a teacher... And I'm sat in my car utterly dumbstruck.

Five year olds love this sort of thing, it's the type of thing that helps develop one of the most important parts of education - a love of literature.

Give your child some credit - 5 is not a baby. They know Bing isn't real, they know pigs don't talk, and they know this is just for fun.

Unclench! Your waaaay off base.

OMG!!!!

You are THAT parent .

She's 5, not 10 or 15, there's a difference 🤨 she couldn't even understand what the issue was with the creaky floor

Isn't education about learning? Do you think it's unreasonable you will have to explain quite a lot of things to your child or do you think that is the exclusive domain of the school?

Most kids love stuff like that. They know it’s ‘naughty’ by that age, that’s why it’s funny to them.

I was thinking this!!

Best of luck when your child discovers Horrid Henry.....

Please tell me this is a fucking joke.

This has to be a joke. The world is full of inappropriate things for children. A story about cake is not one of them.

Surely this is a wind-up?

She's 5, not 10 or 15, there's a difference

You'll be horrified by what the characters get up to in the stories she'll read at 15...

*you're (I'm a sodding English teacher! In my defence it's been a hell of a day and I'm sat in the car in blazing sun, waiting for dd to finish her 11+ lesson).

This appalling school should be named and shamed.

Wow 😂

And what exactly is the assignment?

Are they doing the poem as guided reading, where each section of a text is discussed before the next bit is revealed?

Do you have any relatives who’d be willing to take care of your child while you give yourself a good talking to?

Have you read Goldilocks? Has your child run off to a bears house and eaten their porridge?!