French teacher called her Ginger

[Hyland]

It would seem that the teacher didnt mean to offend my daughter.

However the class was writing down the translation for french words.

The list went like this:
Politics
Business/company
Aeroplane
Celebrity
Bmx
Shopping centre/world trade centre
Poor people
Ginger
Fashion
Boat
Climbing
Factory
Married
Grandchildren

Anyway when she got to the word Roux, the teacher said to my daughter you will know this one.

I think this threw my daughter off (not knowing why she would know above everyone) and ahe hesitated as she thought the translation for Roux was red and the teacher said no it's Ginger, lets not confuse everyone.

I think their was a few giggles and obvioulsy everyone was looking at her.

Needless to say she was really embarrassed.

What is everyones opinon on this?!

'Straight hair' is hardly a schoolground taunt is it?

'You brown haired bitch'
'Ugly curly cunt'
'Fucking blonde bitch'

I must be missed kick a brunette day.

It's a term that can be used as an insult. You'd need to live under a rock not to know that. Highlighting it to a teen in a classroom could go either way. As would pointing out tube fat, skinny, spotty kid, or the black or Jewish kid.

"So children 'gros' means, oh you would know this one" to the chubby kid wouldn't be right would it?

I do think I'd advise the kid to ignore, shrug and forget it but not everyone is the same are they? Some kids would get upset.

Ancienchateau, uh, no. While OP's DD may be female, her hair is still grammatically masculine plural. She'd have les cheveux roux regardless of whether she's male, female or any other gender identity. If she was being referred to as "the ginger one", she'd be la rousse, as in Tu connais cette fille? La blonde? Non, la rousse.

Reading all of the viewpoints on here I have come to the opinion that the teacher probably didn't know that 'ginger' is a word used as an insult. If she felt that it was just an innocent descriptive word with no negative connotations, you can see why she would have used it.
I really hope that as PP have said that there isn't so much 'ginger-hating' going on now. As someone said below, it is character forming to deal with some teasing, but really some of the awful verbal abuse i received as a young child because of the colour of my hair was pretty harrowing. I wouldn't want any child to go through that.

Yep Ig - you run with that thought. That's exactly how teaching should evolve.

Sarf - unfortunately ginger-hating is still very much a thing, and probably even more so on social media. Google 'kick a ginger day' for a prime example. Or the alternative - 'kiss a ginger day' where the ginger kids are singled out and kissed (whether they like it or not) in order to atone for the earlier kicks. It's hilarious.