My Daughter (10 years old) has yet again excelled herself. I'm dreading facing her teacher tomorrow.
OFSTED were at daughter's school, and, as she is on the "school council", she was given the opportunity to be asked questions by the inspectors and to give her opinions.
I am assuming that the inspectors were asking about teaching methods, or how the teachers got the information across, because my daughter was asked what she knows about drugs. she helpfully replied "I've got lots of experience with drugs because my dad smokes them. My mum is having a baby soon and is fed up that he won't stop." The only thing my DH smokes are cigarettes-I'm only assuming that tobacco is now taught as a type of "drug". Part of me is expecting an army of social services people waiting at the school gates to take me away!
This isn't the first time she has done something like this.
In the past she has:-
Told her teacher that over the weekend I shut her in the cupboard under the stairs like Harry Potter, and was holding the door shut so that she couldn't get out (We were actually playing hide and seek with our friends-she forgot to mention that I was in the cupboard with her, and holding the door shut from the inside so that the door didn't open).
Said to same teacher a few months later that I had been teaching her how to make joints in my bedroom (I was putting together some flat packed furniture, and was trying to explain to her that when two pieces are put together, it's called a joint) Again, she didn't let the teacher in on that important part of the story......
And the best one yet..said in the loudest voice ever in the playground to one of her friends..
"My mum was screwing on the kitchen table last night". Well, technically I was, because the top part had come off it and I had to screw it back on again.
Anyone else waiting with baited breath and frayed nerves for the next time your darling childs teacher comes up to you and asks if she could have "A little chat"?
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