DS2, Yr3, has recently completed his first big junior school project, a model of the solar system which he took into school last week. He worked on it for 4 weeks, it was mostly his own work and he was very proud of it.
Anyway he came out of school very upset tonight and when we got home (across the road) told me that someone had broken his model. He'd used wooden skewers to attach the planets in a spiral to the sun and one of them has been snapped.
As we live so close to the school, we popped back with a spare skewer, his teacher was still in the class room and he repaired his model.
However, his teacher told him not to cry as it's "only a kebab stick" which it was, but not really, it was his model that he'd worked hard on that had been willfully broken. She seemed unconcerned about the damage.
I didn't challenge her at the time as DS was there and I do try and support teachers, but shouldn't she at least have acknowledged that it was a rotten thing for someone to have done?