Is this acceptable for a teacher to say..

[Countrygirlxo]

My son is in year 7. So my child has sports day outside today in the sweltering heat. Drinking lots of water he asked if he could go to the toilet, the teacher who he hasn't spoke to or seen before said no he can wait, he didn't complain he waited until there were a few of them that needed to go and the teacher gave my son a 'key', a kind of card to access the door for them to go in.
He said "don't lose it or you're a dead man walking." My son wasn't bothered about the way he was spoken to (which he said was grumpy and wasnt said in a joke way) and shrugged it off but mentioned it in conversation, I just think it's an odd thing and unacceptable way to speak to a 12 year old as a teacher.

wtf? what is your complaint?

Sounds fine to me.

o for goodness sake, why is that worth the effort to make a post about?

Is this a joke?

Sounds like a jokey comment about the importance of the key? At 12 if he's not bothered then not sure what the issue is?

I would be bothered about that sentence.
I would be more than fuming about them locking the toilets and not allowing my child to go to the toilet! I would raise a complaint for that.
Fair enough, I would slso remind my kid to go to the toilet during breaks, but no way I would accept them refusing access if needed!

You're making a massive mountain out of a mole hill

And people wonder why teachers have had enough.

Get over yourself.

Sounds like you are more bothered than your son was.

I’m usually very much on the side of teachers when people complain on here, but that wouldn’t be considered an acceptable way to speak to a child in my school. You don’t teach children to talk to others with respect by talking down to them.

I am a teacher and I would never speak to a child like that.

FGS, my experience is that kids tend to warm to a teacher who doesn’t have a stick up their arse. Ridiculous.

Are you a primary school teacher or secondary?

Anyway I think YABU here and don't think it was meant in the way you're interpreting it.

Jesus wept. And you’re a teacher? Really?

Speak like what? It was a joke.

I think it's fine.

I thought you were going to say the child is five. At twelve he can understand turns of phrase such as this and not take it literally.
YABVU.

You need to relax.

Honestly it was a joke. I really think you need to leave this one go.

Teachers shouldn’t make jokes now? What an absolute drama out of nothing, your son telling you and now you debating it on here. Maybe consider home schooling as an option

Oh god. People really can't say anything anymore, can they?

Does your child never have to wait a bit if he needs to go while you're driving on the motorway?

A Year 7 pupil should be able to wait a bit. If the whole school was outside for sports day then surely you can see that allowing pupils in and out at will could become difficult to supervise. It sounds as if they just needed a little group to need the loo to justify sending someone down to supervise.

You're determined to be offended bout nothing then. If you really are a teacher, you will know what was intended perfectly well.

You're being way oversensitive, it's obviously just a joke, he's not actually threatening his life. Jesus.

It’s not ideal but I wouldn’t be worrying too much with Year 7.