Teacher getting involved in whstsapp

[bettycat81]

My DS (yr6) came to me last night and showed me a conversation in a WhatsApp group that he had been added into. He was not involved in the conversation.

Basically child A and B were being awful to each other and using some very horrid language. Both as bad as each other. Child A's non household relative, who is also a teacher at the school, left a voice note, via Child A's phone, announcing themselves as teacher X and telling child B to apologise.

Should they have got involved outside of school? It stinks of nepotism to me. Also the teacher has unwittingly revealed themselves to be breaking tier 4 rules which my Son picked up on.

@cansu

You have absolutely no idea whether they have broken any regulations and I have no idea why you are concerned that an adult intervened in a nasty whatsapp conversation between two children. Given that whatsapp has an age restriction of 16, what is your ds in year 6 doing on it or is that an irrelevant and nosey question?

Oh come on the majority of year 5 and 6 kids have WhatsApp and WhatsApp groups. Don’t kid yourself

@Dominicwestsscooter

I’d be more concerned with why a year 6 child needs a mobile phone.

😂😂😂 you for real???

I work in a school and nearly all the junior children do and even a couple of year 1’s do and I’m not even joking 🙃

Completely inappropriate for the teacher to message a child. Will almost certainly be against the school's acceptable use policy. Report to the school for sure. (I'm a headteacher- I'd want to know and deal with it).

Teacher has left themselves wide open to complaint wrt safeguarding and bias. Most they should have done would have been to note it for their colleague/the actual class teacher. The sensible thing would have been to tell their niece to block the user/leave the chat. Mediating outside of school on social media using your teacher status would have ramifications where I work.

@MrPickles73

I would delete the what's app account immediately. Why dies a yr 6 child need a phone and even if they do they don't need WhatsApp. If the child has no mobile this problem wouldn't have occured in the furs place .

Of course they need a phone nowadays it’s not 1973 anymore