Daughter's teacher called her a numpty

[Ottermum23]

Hi all,
We have a lovely little daughter, in year3.
She is a very enthusiastic learner, who always loved school and loves academic challenges.
This year, she had a new teacher, who is not the nicest, but nevertheless, We thought, just give her the benefit of a doubt.
Our girl been contstantly saying, that the teacher shouts, and today, she said, she called her a numpty, as she accidentally started to do her writing on someone else's book.

I find this very frustrating and just would like to hear others opinions.
Thank you.

If children are getting upset when a teacher calls them a numpty, they're going to be horribly shocked by what their peers call them in secondary school.

"Numpty" is not a name calling, because there are other meaning. If the teacher said, "Idiot", "stupid" etc, the word that doesn't have other meaning, it's a name calling.
I am not even a native English speaker, but still can see the difference.

Philomena - the very fact of teachers modelling name calling as an acceptable way of controlling others gives licence to children to (a) name call (b) believe they have to put up with name calling.

Still no reference to actual research @user?
You can't expect people to take your opinions seriously if you can't back them up with evidence and research. I teach my undergrads that....if you're qualified the level you say you are you would know that. And you'd have plethora of research to draw upon and direct us to.

Francis - you are misinterpreting what I wrote. I’m only referring to name calling as a way of regaining control quickly, not to any other technique.

Actually, no, Blaa, I don’t have a plethora of research about name calling. It was the focus of some very precise psycholinguistic longitudinal studies.

I should have said earlier... I’ll take your posts for what they are. The opinions of a stranger on the internet who may or may not be who she says she is, and who has nothing to back up her posts. With a pinch of salt.

I would love to see those psycholinguistic longitudinal studies.

Me too please user

As you should, SoyDora. I don’t expect anything else.

Where can I find this very precise peice of research?

Children really don't need licence to name call user. And I'm pretty sure no teacher ever called a child a cunt, but I regularly heard it at secondary school.

Philomena - the extent to which children name call is very highly correlated with the extent to which the adults in their immediate environment name call. Parents who never name call very rarely have children who do so.

You're talking about learnt behaviour. Apply this to original post then the child is learning that it's okay to make mistakes and deal with them in an informal manner

Blaa - I absolutely concur that a child needs to learn to brush off mistakes. Just not using name calling.

Still waiting for that research .......

Context is everything. A word like numpty in this context is perfectly acceptable.

Francis - your English comprehension isn’t quite there

Francis - I use “brush off” in the sense of “not dwell upon”. But mistakes must be understood by a child and it is up to parents and teachers to ensure that this is the case before moving on.