Is this inappropriate for a teacher talking to a year 7 class or am I an old fud?

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Bunch of 11 year olds, just started obv. Teacher introduces herself and says if anyone messes about in her lesson she will make the girls tongue the boys and the boys tongue the girls . Am I alone in thinking this is so inappropriate.

If it was just my DDs passing on this info I would have perhaps thought they misunderstood but they had friends here tonight who said the same and couldn't believe it!

Our french teacher used to spend a lot of time telling us we need to 'devil up' things, which I sort of assumed finesse, polish etc.

She was of course saying 'develop' but it took me 4 years before I figured that out...

Really citrus? That's weird as I have to used the expression to tongue someone. Not saying your wrong, just not a phrase in my vocabulary. And anyway, even if she sad that exact thing, the chances of her actually meaning that, especially if English isn't her first language?!?

I have never used the expression to tongue someone is what I meant to say...

I wasn't thinking oral sex, I and my kids/friends we're thinking French kissing when she said taongue the boys/girls. Jesus if she was referring to oral sex I'd be straight up there

she can't have said that, they must have misunderstood her.....
give the woman a chance!

That's sounds by far the most likely explanation, Suffolk. Amazes me how many people are only too keen to believe the worst of teachers though.

That's my point - I don't believe for a second that that's what she said/meant and the teacher doesn't deserve to have these sort of rumours flying round so the OP needs to clear up the confusion and speak to the teach and/or head so that they can speak to the children involved and squash the silliness quick smart.

YEs. Are the Spanish words for tongue and language similar. I think she was talking about language conversation partners.
When I was at school the spoken exams used to be called 'orals'.You can imagine some poor foreign teacher looking up 'oral' on babelfish and coming up with something highly inappropriate!!

yes it is lengua for both words, just like tongue (language) /tongue- she probably meant speak, as in speaking partners.
the poor woman will never live this one down.

Oh, gosh. I'd just leave it tbh and keep an ear out for anything else. You really don't want to be stirring up things right at the beginning of Y7. In the great scheme of things it's nothing. The teacher didn't say what the DC think or like to think she said. She's probably got a bit of an accent and chose the wrong vocabulary. Really, in the great scheme of things it's nothing.