to have complained to the head about a Swastika flag in the school carpark?!

[sethstarkaddersmum]

Actually I KNOW I am not BU, I just want someone to calm me down a bit.

So there was a car in the school carpark with one of those England flags on it.... with a swastika stuck to the other side.
I did a double take, went and looked, then went back and basically said 'WTF?' to the other mums, only nobody seemed that bothered
Then one of the other mums, who is a German teacher, turned up, saw it, and went absolutely ballistic - 'That flag is a sign of murder and racism!' etc. Which was how I saw it as well but hadn't expressed it with quite as much force.
So I said 'Shall we go and talk to the head?' and then he came out of the school and I said 'Are you going to do something about that?' and anyway, it turned out the car belonged to a TEACHER! A v young supply teacher, apparently, who had put it there as a joke .
I intimated to the head that I did not feel it was appropriate (while the other mum repeated her points about murder and racism) and he went off to get it removed and, I hope, have more than a few words with this teacher....

I mean, WHAT
THE
FUCK....

Doris:
"Was it a swastika or a reverse nazi swastika? I only ask as when in India you see swastika tattoos, marks on everything from cloth to cups and plates to jewellery. It's a symbol of life, I believe. "

that's what i was thinking - except it's actually the other way round - the swastika is the reverse of the indian symbol. the nazis took the symbol and turned it into something more sinister.

YANBU, god I worry about the stupidity of teachers and who's going to be teaching DS when he goes to school!!!

Did the head teacher deal with the situation straight away by getting the teacher to remove the flag? Hope they did because as the school leader not dealing with this would reflect on them too.

If you are disastisfied about a teacher's professional conduct you can make a complaint (General Teaching Council for England I believe).

Doris & Nickel I was wondering that too.
I was horrified when this symbol appeared on some of my wedding cards (married into an Indian family.) Made particularly bad by the fact that my father is half German!

You'd think that most people who live in this country know that people find it offensive though.

Wonder if the OP ever spoke to the head to find out what happened?

hi - I haven't been into school since but dh reports that he didn't see the flag when he dropped dd off this morning....