Teacher exposing breast.

[bamboostalks]

This sounds bizarre and I think it is really. Dsd is in year 6 and they are having the sex ed programme. Anyway, this week it was all about pregnancy and birth. The teacher has just returned from maternity leave and imo went into way too much detail for 10 and 11 year olds(discussing stitches etc. dsd was very intrigued, arriving home with a lot of questions!!) but most astonishingly showed them her breast to explain how the baby feeds. Now this is nothing new to dsd per se who has seen me bf all year but I was amazed. Dh wanted to go in and complain today and I received a couple of phone calls asking me to sign a petition "We think that this teacher needs further training etc." Quite moderate in tone really. AIBU or was this teacher totally wrong?

For the final time, this is not a wind up. It did happen, all the chn ran into the playground to tell their parents teacher no where to be seen and dd just home tells me that she was not in today.

I'm not surprised.

Poor lady. Stupid thing to do, but she doesn't deserve to be villified. Hope it gets sorted.

Yes - a thin white top. I saw her as I had to go with my mum.

And was teaching 5th form classes the same day in same outfit (ie, my brother). But afaik in her case it was the last straw.

Why would a teacher think that it was acceptable to expose her breast to a class of 11yo children?

I find her conduct unprofessional and naive.

Singing a petition is unreasonable, a quiet talk with the head would suffice.

oh bugger, am enjoying this and got to go out now.

still think that 'the sun' would pay top dollar for this story though!

good headline

'teacher expresses herself in class' sort of thing

Perhaps she's got PND. It was a cry for help

this a a joke

this place is freaking nuts sometimes

It might be, but truth is stranger than fiction sometimes I have found.

gawd this is proper tabloid fodder. have you been CAT'd by any hacks yet bamboostalks? Care to tell us where this school is?????

I don't think it's a big deal, if DD told me her teacher had got her stomach out and let them all feel it I wouldn't be bothered one iota (teacher is pg btw!)
But, I think it was misguided, and is too personal for comfort.
Too many people see breasts as genitalia so she should've been more careful. It's not quite the same as a tummy or an ankle.

Jeez - a bit odd it has to be said, a quick call to lodge your concerns but also your support for her not to be sacked?

Poor woman is no doubt going be traumatised enough looking back and dealing with all this and a new baby without getting the sack too .. if that school was that liberal the children and parents would be used to this approach.

I think most teachers would agree this was a very bad choice to make. A discreet word to the head teacher perhaps better than a petition. After all as someone said would a penis be acceptable?? Even if a male teacher was just demonstrating where sperm comes from - it's exposing themselves. Everything could have been done with pictures. The kids probably weren't affected by it at all at that age but it's still inappropriate behaviour. There seems to be a lot of laid back people on here thinking it's not a big deal but it really would have been different if it was a male teacher. The teacher really didn't need to show her breast.

anybody else have a child at a school where pupils call teachers by 1st name?

I think it was inappropriate conduct for a teacher. She wasn't demonstrating breastfeeding because there was no baby and I don't see how exposing her breast would have benefitted the children's education any more than a diagram or picture of a breastfeeding mother. If she wanted to promote breastfeeding it woiuld have been far more appropriate to have invited a breastfeeding mother to come into the school ie someone else.

I'm not sure that she should have gone so far as talking about stitches either. I think she gave the lesson from a personal, rather than a professional, perspective which is why she got it wrong. I don't think a petition is necessary but a word with the headteacher is.

surprise surprise she has disapeared

Do people often expose their breasts as a cry for help?

to A class of 6 year olds?

They're 6 year olds now are they? Have I misread something

this woman needs help

Year six, age 11 I think

Look, I won't go on as many people seem to think that this is untrue (truth is stranger than fiction!). Thanks for all the good advice so far. I don't think that the school is that unusual in that chn call teachers by their first name. Hangover form trendy inner London teaching days. Normal state school with great results btw.

from not form.

agree soapbox, greeny, janni