AIBU to find it odd a teacher said this without explanation?

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Dd, 7, told me today that the teacher told her she’d been naughty but she didn’t know why.
She said she had lots of papers with kids names on (around four names, including Dd’s ) and read out their names and said they had been very naughty today. She didn’t say why or what they’d done. Dd doesn’t know why and says she wasn’t told off for anything

Does this seem odd

If your DD is upset I'd ask the teacher about it.
If not, then no I wouldn't bother asking about nonsense like this!

Ask the teacher. And pay attention, it could be nothing but it might be something

The first thing I think of in situations like this is to post on Mumsnet to fire up the anti school, anti authority mummy army rather than thinking there may be a context, my child is only 7 and I definitely won't contact the school...

Perhaps she's collecting data for Father Christmas 😂

The primary school I work in does write down names of children given warnings. Usually in the lower years these warnings are given after several reminders and only once the child has continued to ignore the requests e.g. listen to the teacher. Maybe the teacher read the names out as a reminder that they had been spoken to that day for making poor choices (and your DD changed the wording to being naughty as she knows that's what it realistically means).

The bigger issue is (and it's not major, just odd) the teacher callings children naughty. I'm in education and no-one i've ever worked with would label a child that.

TBH, if they need to read out a naughty list, perhaps they need a bit of cpd training.

I'd check in with teacher and get the full story. Probably nothing, but your daughter will appreciate you've got her back.

😂 until some sadistic shit hits your child for no good reason

The likelihood is that the child has changed the wording. We talk about making good choices at school and being sad when friends make poor choices....most kids know that this means at times being naughty. DD is likely to know that the names are of people who have done the wrong thing that day and has put it into her own words - children who were naughty.

How embarrassing to think it’s a good idea to give adults a tool to physically hurt children with. Great moral framework there. What kind of adult do you think would be comfortable purposefully hurting a child?

after 20 years as teacher I have started to use it. Because the students know it means they have done something that they know they shouldn’t have on purpose. It’s deliberate misbehaviour.

Very true. I had this before, my child said something had happened. Turns out it was quite different and i looked a bit silly. Still glad i supported my child but i did use a pinch of salt thereafter haha.

I do hope a teacher wouldn't say 'naughty' but there are some old school ones.

Maybe she's in the running for being the next santa?! 🤷‍♀️

I'd pop in and see the teacher because a) If this is how it went down, it suggests your dd isn't aware of what she had done, which may mean she isn't aware of a rule she should follow or may mean she isn't picking up on certain things she should be. B) if your dd is fairly switched on and normally knows rules etc, then it suggests the teacher has an issue she needs to sort out.
I can't really see a world where a teacher randomly reads out names of naughty children, so I'd ask them first casually. More as a "I want to make sure dd is aware of all the boundaries" type chat and see what they say. If they are doing discipline exactly as dd has said, then maybe flag to headteacher as that's very weird!!

My 7yo told me they had a horse in the classroom and that they watched Jurassic park one day - I’m confident neither is true although at 18 she still has a Jurassic park memory (we assume it was a dinosaur programme as the teacher didn’t seem insane).

In this scenario I’d email the teacher and ask but come from a basis of you’ve had a vague half story and are curious and if dc was misbehaving you’d follow up at home.

Is naughty a word you use at home (so she’s maybe using a word the teacher didn’t use)? Or is it odd that she’s using the word naughty, so it must have come from school?

I’d want a to straighten things up, but go in with full knowledge you may only have gotten some of the information. And just explain that she was upset and felt like she had been “naughty” but didn’t know why, and you wanted to find out what had actually happened so you could speak to her and help her understand so it doesn’t happen again. Once you’ve heard the teachers explanation you can decide next steps and if you think they’re being reasonable.

OP she’s 7.

No don’t go to the school.

Yea your child almost certainly got it wrong.

No this isn’t worth taking it further.

And frankly if she was misbehaving almost certainly the teacher wouldn’t have said that and you should be more concerned with your daughter’s behaviour than her version of events.

This.
These posts are beyond tiresome.
We're talking about a 7 year old child and a full grown adult believing word for word a small child's version of events.
And of course we're getting ready to contact the school...

YABU to spend more than one second thinking about this. You would be very unreasonable to waste teacher's time on this.

Focus on your child - are they very upset about it - if so, have a chat about it. If not, then no need to talk to anyone about it.

I would let this drift by.
At next parent's evening you could ask about DD's behaviour in class.

I agree. A teacher wouldn’t use the word naughty. Your child is paraphrasing, but if she’s upset, ask the teacher what happened because you’d like to understand.

I would talk to the teacher it’s reasonable to ask. Either there’s an explanation or your dd has made it up., You can manage your next move once you have heard both sides

I don’t even give it much thought! True or not, it’s just one of those things kids need to learn happen sometimes and not to get worked up and be a total Karen about!

They also need to learn that ‘Karen*, as an insult, is an archaic term, not normally used or tolerated nowadays!

Half a story. If it's going to bother you then speak to the teacher. But by speak I mean "hi there, X told me this... I'm sure there's more to it than this than that I was wondering if you could fill me in on the other half..." Not "why would you dare do such and such." It's amazing the amount of parents who go for the jugular without ever pausing to consider that they don't have all, and occasionally any of the information.

Just ask the teacher.... I don't take anything my kids say happened at school as the gospel truth, lol.... Especially when she told me the teacher punched her in the face! (Turned out the pen pot fell and both teacher and child went to grab it mid fall, lol) There have been many stories come home that taken out of context sound awful.

As for the list.... It could even be as simple as a list for something else like a guided reading group, children going to next level books, new maths group ect.... And a child got noisy and asked "What's that" so teacher joked "its santas naughty list"

Generally, in school, we don't say "naughty".... We say "not been making good choices today", or "not got our best listening ears today "

I don’t take things my DC say as gospel,but neither do I automatically assume the teacher is always right