Has anyone ever challenged the head over something said in assembly?

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DS has just started year 6, and there's a new Head. It's a CE school and the new Head has come from another faith primary school.

Going by DS's account, something the new Head said in assembly today was untrue - I'm not just talking in the "faith" sense, but historically and fundamentally, provably incorrect.

He's old enough to know it's not true, so came home scoffing about it. I'm thinking about having a word - which I never would have done when DS was younger, but now he's in Year 6 I'm feeling a bit more assertive.

I don't want to humiliate her in her first week of a new job, so wondering what's the best way to go about it - probably face to face, in a "this was what DS said he heard, but surely that's not right" sort of a way.

Honestly I'd think you had way too much time on your hands.. pick your battles and let your son tackle it directly although I'm not sure correcting the principal is a great way to start the year even if he's completely wrong (which he is)

I think it is a useful social lesson for your ds that adults aren't always right but that you don't always have to do something about it. Handled carefully it could be used to teach him that he should always keep a critical mind even when a social situation isn't suitable for doing something about it.

The Head's statement here is very ignorant, though, from a Biblical pov. If the situation ever comes up where this is under discussion then he could certainly point this out, but I wouldn't go creating an occasion just to stir.

Check that is actually what the headteacher said first.

You wouldn't believe the number of things I have apparently said to my classes over the years.

Including the time I was apparently going to take a child to the supermarket with me at lunchtime...

Who would be a headteacher or with parents like yourself waiting to jump on them for anything they say that parents do not like or agree with.

I expect she was addressing the whole school so trying to make it suitable for all ages.
I have seen similar when bible stories are taught and aimed at younger children...missing out lots of the story but the basics were there iyswim.

My DC attended a standard primary. In RE they came home told me about God creating the world and I patiently listened.

I didn't say I thought it incorrect, a fairy tale etc. I would never have approached the school over that.

just point out to your child he was talking specifically abut that society, or more symbolically, and teach him not to "scoff"

What a ridiculous nit picky thing to contact a school about!

Also your child is heading for hitting a brick wall head on in secondary school if that is your attitude.