To be shocked that my 5yo dd's new school reading book includes words such as "dunno" and "the Fuzz" (as in police)?

[WillyWonka]

I could understand it in a book for a competent older reader (8 or 9yo, maybe) but she's only in Year 1 and I was when we sat down to read the book this evening.

What is the book, out of interest?

Fortunately each book is self contained, so the next one will probably be fine but this has stood out, especially as dd's of an age when she tries to mutter stuff like "dunno" when throwing a strop and is told that it's not a proper word ...I'm turning into my Mum

It's called "Gordon Gets Even". I notice that on the back, it's described as a "modern, realistic story"!

id be very angry!yanbu.have you spoken to the teacher

I wouldn't like that ATALL

I'll definitely have a word with her teacher. She is very lovely and I'd be interested to hear what she thinks because I can't believe it's particularly helpful to teachers either.

bloody captain underpants? I have banned my dd from picking those... full of such poop!

LOL lostinfrance

Possibly followed by "Gordon Shares a Cell with Joey Barton"

I complained about one dd bought home a little while ago. It referred to scientists as "nerds", someone being a "loony" just because he had unusual looks, and had the child hero calling various characters names which you wouldn't want your child repeating in the playground. Dd was six and I felt it was inappropriate.

It turned out that the head had assumed it was OK as it was part of the Oxford Reading Tree All-Stars series so hadn't read it, even though it was a new series. She removed it from the shelves and it's no longer on the reading lists. So it's worth complaining about.

Not captain underpants QOD, part of the Lighthouse series of reading books for schools (White Book 1)

i'd be worried about the old fashioned language too - has anyone actually used the term 'the fuzz' since z-cars was on the telly?

bit OT but tonight DS finally brought home the legendary 'rotten apples' book that caused such a stink here a while back. we enjoyed it

dd had a captain underpants book.we read it once then lost it(no idea what happened to it!)

Which scheme is it? I wouldn't be happy and would say so.

I'd assume they were using slightly odd words to ensure the child was doing a mix of word recognition and sound blending, tbh. Neither word is actually 'bad', surely?

And it's not like they're calling them the 'farking coppers' or something ...

I remember my mother taking one of my sisters reading books back and saying no child of hers was going to read such rubbish .

Talk to the teacher

I think it would be fine for an older child but not a 5 yr old.

It sounds a poorly written book - would the school be happy if your dd wrote dunno?

We had the 'rotten apples ' book a couple of weeks ago - had to explain to Ds what 'drunk' meant . He did find the book funny .

Next thing we know Biff and Chip will be on an ASBO for not keeping Floppy under control because they 'dunno ' no better and they hate the 'fuzz'.

(I know that the book you refer to wasn't an ORT , or at least I hope not ! )

rofl NQC

In response to cupsoftea's question - dunno!