Inappropriate mnemonic from school?

[Angelofmycoins]

Son is doing exams Y11 - he has just told me they were taught this mnemonic in science (physics?) when they were in Y9:

'Gay X-men Use Vibrators In My Rectum'

(for remembering types of waves ie gamma, x, uv etc)

Aibu in thinking its inappropriate? He did remember it so he argues it worked!

For context, fee paying school, all boys.....

That is shocking😮

You KNOW that's not OK, you don't need a poll!

Wow that's really inappropriate

Are you serious?

He won't forget it though...

It sounds more like something one of the Y9 boys would have made up - are you sure he got it from a teacher?

Wow 😂

I only remember which way stalagmites and stalactites go because our teacher taught us the phrase "tites (tights) must come down"

Massively inappropriate.

He is going to remember it though...

Really inappropriate. I hope you’re going to bring it to the attention of the SMT.

Are you sure it was ‘taught’ and not actually something the boys have made up and it’s just been passed down through each year group that it’s become the common way of remembering it?

Ask your son to be clear that the teacher said that not a student and then email the school (and I’d never ever say that but they need to know a teacher might be saying that)

I'm sorry I know it's wrong and inappropriate, but I'm just 😂😂😂

Noooooooo

Must be a thing with science teachers. DD’s science teacher’s favourite joke was “how do you make a hormone” … “don’t pay her”

I'm guessing teacher had a boring one and this was the version the kids used. If you are 100% sure it came from a teacher then I'd say something..massively inappropriate. Funny though!

When I was a teacher I used to get the students to make up their own mnemonics for things. Might have been that sort of a situation. Check first before complaining!

He's adamant and named the teacher....

I really can't see any teacher who wants to keep their job teaching that.

Kids don't always tell the truth.

Our S2/Y9 Science teacher used that..."When the mites go up, the tights come down." However, he was a creep.

Yeah. I don’t believe that. But please ask the school and tell us what they say

Yeh my kids science teacher talks about Richard Craniums in class apparently.

Is he at Eton?

Is this another Friday night on the wine fantasy post?

You don't want to know how electronics students remember the colours/ values of resistors then!

Just don't like that culture of normalising chat like that with 13 year old boys.

I also witnessed a teacher getting back from a school trip telling boys "remember, you tell your parents it was already dead". Because he'd hit a deer with the mini bus!

But making them keep a secret from parents also felt wrong.