Swearing in primary school

[Rainallnight]

Is this normal? DD, Year 4, comes home pretty much every day talking about how one or two people in her class swore that day.

A boy called a girl a ‘fucking bitch’ today and another girl got in trouble for giving another girl the middle finger and swearing.

We don’t swear on front of the kids and I’m really sad that her childhood is being affected by all this coarseness.

But am I naive?

YANBU to mind but it was the norm in my naice primary in the 70’s!

It’s definitely the case that a lot of dc know a lot of swears younger than in the past. I teach littlies and year on year more of them know eg fuck and will also just say it ‘miss, Sophia said fuck’ whereas even a few years ago they would have said ‘the f word’ or just not known it at all.

Totally naive unfortunately. I accidentally swore and apologised. My dc explained that they hear much worse in school every day. This is a nice little village school too. Can only assume it’s worse in bigger schools.

I got called a fucking bitch by a Year One (6 years old) last year!

We have a fair bit of swearing in Reception. By Y4 I imagine it’s a constant stream!

It's normal language for some children. We have a family of 7 through primary (4 have moved up to high now) and all of the children use swearing in their regular vocab. Their ages are 2-17. While in school we just have to remind them of good language, but when it's the norm at home and the parents swear at them all the time there is not much we can do.

I work in year 6 and whilst I'm sure some swearing happens at playtime, it's not something we regularly have to deal with.

Yep, my son said a child repeatedly whispered bitch into his ear today, he tells me stuff like this daily

I think it’s really terrible to be honest. Yes there are bigger issues and yes I’m clutching my pearls but who on earth thinks that 4 year olds saying fuck is fine? The bar is on the floor it seems.

Yes, sadly this.

I’m a Year 4 teacher in a London school and I don't think I hear swearing more than once a week from my class. It’s been the same for the last few years.

Normal. Esp with DC with older siblings

Get threatened and sworn at daily, kicked and hit. Mainstream primary 😢

My Y2 DC just this morning said he knew a swear word, that x in his class had told y who told him.

It's really bad, it's the f word.
Fuck
And there's an s word
Stupid
And the I word already
Idiot

So on the one hand, I'm smiling, but I'm pretty sad my five year old is being told "fuck" by classmates.

It’s year 4, rather than four year olds.

It's normal but I wish it wasn't. My youngest has echolalia so it was a nightmare when he learnt swear words at school.

No lots of people have said reception.

It wouldn’t have been acceptable at DT’s school nor would we accepted it at home.

Nobody, not a single person, is saying it is acceptable at their child's school.

My sister had a son. He told the head teacher to p off. I collected him that day. I was called aside , and told of this incident. I was horrified , apologised profusely! Took the spoilt brat back to my sister's. She said oh well I'm sure she has heard the word before . Haven't seen any of those excuses since 2016!