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Teachers and thumb sucking - is this usual?

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Psipsina · 01/05/2015 09:53

Ds may have got this completely wrong, but he came home yesterday saying that his TA and teacher kept putting white tape around a child's thumb to try and stop him sucking it.

From what he says it was surgical tape, but it was replaced various times during the day. The child didn't seem upset to Ds, which is good.

I suspect it was a strategy suggested by the parents but Ds insisted it wasn't, and it was their own idea, and they wrote in the child's contact book about it.

Just curious to know if this would be considered usual as it seems a bit odd to me, say Ds was correct. I don't intend to do anything about it as I think it's between the other parents and the teachers involved.

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FeckoffandDie · 04/05/2015 20:00

Thanks, Himagain. I'm sure you mean well

mrz · 04/05/2015 20:06

Yes it really makes a teachers job easier to waste teaching time putting tape on children's thumbs ??

soapboxqueen · 04/05/2015 20:09

Damn it mrz I wish I'd known that sooner (wistfully imagines rows of children smashing through their learning targets due to taped thumbs)

mrz · 04/05/2015 20:13

Forget phonics or number bonds, times tables and grammar ...all you need is tape !

Fairenuff · 04/05/2015 20:13

I suspect it was a strategy suggested by the parents but Ds insisted it wasn't, and it was their own idea, and they wrote in the child's contact book about it.

Did he read what they wrote in the contact book?

FeckoffandDie · 04/05/2015 20:15

No of course not, but he said he saw them writing in it - I still haven't got that part of the story straight with him. He is very long winded so I don't really want to ask again.

He is actually properly nosy.

FeckoffandDie · 04/05/2015 20:16

That is, I hope he didn't read it!

LynetteScavo · 04/05/2015 20:21

If the child is 7 and ducking his thumb all the time to the point where it's stopping him writing, I dare say his parents and teacher are trying to do something about it. I would imagine a short report on how it went was being written in the book.

The surgical tale didn't have a dressing under it, did it?

Fairenuff · 04/05/2015 20:30

So your 7 year old saw teacher put tape on thumb and write in contact book and from that you jump to the huge conclusion that the teacher has taken it upon themselves to do it and is writing to tell the parents? Not very likely is it?

More likely that parents have spoken to the teacher, asked for their help in breaking this habit because it's damaging teeth/ hindering speech/whatever and teacher is to keep parent informed by writing each day in contact book.

Nowfeeltheneedtopost · 04/05/2015 21:00

OP, I don't think I am "pulling apart every single word" that you've written. I simply said that your OP came across to me that you believed the school had done this on their own initiative. And I disagree. I don't know (and, as you say. I have no reason to understand) your reasons for posting the original post. All i did was comment on how I read it, pointing out that you came across as being disposed to believe that teachers had done this without parental consent. For all I knew, you could have replied to my first post that your DS was 11 and had read the other child's contacts book and therefore was 100% sure that the teachers had initiated this. But you didn't.

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