Teacher told my child that child is not a Muslim

[Jkam24]

My daughter has recently started reception and asked me today if our family are Muslims, to which I said yes. She then started crying saying her teacher told her that she (my daughter) is not a Muslim. Is it unreasonable to be angry about this?

But the teacher has admitted she said it...

Is this a state school? God help teachers...any God will do.

I wouldn't need to have taken long. Teachers do talk to children.

Yes and they've got better thigns to do that discuss Islam with a 4 year old.

I was a teacher of young children for 30 years and we talked about all kinds of things although I don't remember a conversation about Islam. It doesn't have to be in depth but it's a way of building a relationship and I enjoyed it. Admittedly most of my career was before Academisation and teaching by script.

That is teacher's opinion and has nothing to do with your child or family. When it comes to religion it is up to parents to decide, whether you are Muslim. Aetheist or Pagan.

You need to realise that most people in this country are not Christians.

If the teacher admits she said it - to a 4 year old! - then you have a duty to take it further.

It is a denial of the child's religious and cultural identity and highly inappropriate - possibly professional misconduct.

This is a silly thing for her to say, because even if she’s right that young children can’t fully understand religion, it is simply a fact that your child is being raised as Muslim, religion is often as much a cultural thing too. So for example your child will be celebrating festivals that her non-Muslim classmates will not, etc.

Why was the teacher even asking children about their religion? This seems an odd thing to be doing at all, even odder to then tell a child that she didnt believe them. The teacher needed to be told that her action had upset a child and she should keep that view to herself. However to immediately jump to this means she was islamophobic or has to be constantly monitored for future transgressions fuels racism.

Shit is a swear word, btw.