To be shocked

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when a 7 year old in my class said he watched SAW II last night, and was able to describe the plot accurately to my colleague?

No YANBU.

And I think I'd be wondering what else the poor little boy had been exposed to.

YANBU.

This happened in my class too (Y2). We logged it as a child protection concern (part of a wider picture).

Did you approach parents littlefish?

Sweet buttery Jesus. It's not a nice film and I've seen every horror going. Definitely report concerns.

YANBU

YANBU that is really awful - vile flms that I dislike my adult children watching!!

YANBU, god at that age i was still being scarred for life by disney films not blood and gore horror.

YANBU. That's terrible

YANBU but sadly that is the norm for a growing minority of kids. As a teacher I have heard 8yr olds asking who each other would like to have sex with. Ok they might not fully understand what that means but what goes on at home that these poor kids are even able to repeat such phrases? I would have it logged as a child protection issue.

Sorry meant to add that I wouldnt approach parents. If it is deemed necessary let senior management deal with that. They probably wont

YANBU, but TBH it's nothing new - I remember my mother talking about a child in her class (probably about 9yo) who described a horror film they'd watched on TV the night before. Mum hadn't heard of it, so she asked in the staff room - the film had been on late at night, long after any child should have been in bed, and one of the other members of staff said she had been terrified by it. That was about 20 years ago.

YANBU because I am shocked when any of the kids I teach (including yr11s tbh honest) say they have viewed such things.

Bloody hell!! I won't even watch those things but I don't like horror films anyway.

I know of young children who have watch adult films from a young age. It is totally inappropriate.

Eh? Saw II? Bloody frikking hell, I can barely sit through that film!

YANBU

I've never managed to watch a Saw film all the way through - and I wouldn't want to. The thought of a primary school child watching it is truly sickening.

I'm wondering if he has actually seen the film? You know how kids are...

Reasonable parents would not let a child view any of the Saw films. It's a no-brainer. So there's a problem if the parents let the child watch the film. There's a problem if the child has managed to watch it without his parents knowing. And there's a problem if someone has told him what happens in the film.

So YANBU and need to follow the advice the ladies here have given as it needs some follow-up.

Well, that is shocking, ...but I find it even more shocking that the teachers here would log it as a child protection concern!

What's wrong with raising the concerns with the parents?

There could be a perfectly innocent explanation, such as older sibling telling them about the film?!

My DD had me called into school after telling them she had watched Chucky/childs play .
I haven't a clue where she heard about it.

With anything like this we have to log it as a concern - before we do anything else. Most concerns go no further than our appointed person, but that isn't our decision to make. It doesn't mean it automatically gets reported to an outside agency.

Surely as a teacher you would know the child/parents better than your appointed person?

Thus being able to make a fair assessment of the situation, and whether there is a serious concern?

I work in secondary, so usually no I don't know the parents well at all. But we don't have discretion in matters of child protection. If it were known that I had failed to log a concern I would be in serious trouble. Mostly our appointed person speaks to parents and it is cleared up. But not all the time.

Ok, thanks for the clarification!

As Fallen says if something is deemed CP there is no discretion, no promise of privacy and no leeway not if you want to keep your job. Horror films don't hold the same status in secondary but if a teacher has been told it would be CP then they HAVE to report.