Am I overreacting to this teacher’s comment?

[queenkettricken]

I’ll start by saying that I’m a teacher myself -primary. My daughter is in year 7 at high school and today her personal development teacher was talking about stereotypes. He mentioned the stereotype that English women go abroad on holiday, get really drunk and sleep with lots of men.

I’m shocked by the reference to sleeping with lots of people and want to email the school but honestly don’t know if I’m overreacting. I teach in UKS2 and cannot imagine touching on this subject even at the very end of year 6.

Should I accept that this is high school and that stuff like this is ok? Or am I right to be shocked that my 11 year is being exposed to this.

Of course we do. Different local authorities use different terms for their secondary schools. In my authority they're Upper Schools. In the neighbouring authority they're High Schools.

Yeah, I don't like it.

Crikey what part of “stereotype” are you and PP missing? It means “I think this is rubbish but some twats actually think/do it”. Do you seriously not understand this? Do you think describing something as a stereotype means you support the behaviour??

And now you are seriously DISCUSSING emailing a complaint with your daughter?? She’d obviously be mortified. You are bonkers.