So Angry!! Channel 4 offensive AGAIN!!!

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Get on the Channel 4 board and send a complaining post. It's f outrageous actually, how dare they.

This is totally unacceptable! Lou33 is good at writing complaining letters if she gets a draft going I'll happily send one into the production team too!

My sister just mentioned this to me - and she said she was surprised too! It's not on!

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Disgusting!

WTF?????
I am speechless. Why is it okay to poke fun out of disabled people. What a cheap shot. [disgusted expression please]

Lou, how you getting on with your letter to head of Channel 4? Do you think this one just happened to slip through editing too!!

HOW DARE THEY?
I feel a boycott coming on.

Right, let's all write individual letters...
As they offended both autistic individuals and people with learning disabilities that's a double whammy insult on my dd!
I can't believe there is such a level of ignorance and still the culture that it's OK to make comments like this.

Bloody hell I didn't see this!

I got a reply from ch4, although I haven't replied to them. I found they took my concerns seriously, but it does rather lessen their claim to be v careful about using offensive terms doesn't it! The woman who replied to me was dep ed of documentaires, so probably no use in this case. I'd get onto the c4 website and complain from there, and possibly ofcom too (not that ofcom have even acknowledged my email)

It's so draining fighting stupid attitudes such as the person who wrote the scene, and allowed it to be broadcast

If it hadn't been for my mumsnet usage I don't think I'd even have noticed. But I did and I was disgusted and gasped .. appalling

and thanks for educating me too

it's disgusting

I saw this and did a double take as I just couldn't believe what I heard.

FFS. Disgusting.

I don't watch Teachers so missed this. I know it's meant to be irreverent, shocking etc but this is totally unacceptable.

Apart from being offensive, I also wonder how accurate it is. Would a teacher in the real world really talk like this? My brother certainly wouldn't, but I wonder if other teachers would? Is the scriptwriter portraying what a real teacher in a real world situation would say? I really hope not.

I can't think of ANY teachers I know in RL who would dream of mocking children with learning disabilities or an autistic spectrum disorder, Caligula. I just don't think they'd do it. I've always had a problem with Teachers (although it used to be better scripted and less peopled with grotesques earlier on), but I know lots of people enjoy it.

I saw this too and was shocked tbh. The latest series of Teachers is pretty cr@p at the best of times but this just went too far IMO.

I'm disgusted. Didn't see the programme but utterly shameful of C4 and everyone involved in that programme from the writer(s) actor(s) production crew etc.

Glad to hear it Marina. I think one of the worst, most irresponsible things about this, is that it could make parents of SN children a bit doubtful/ nervous etc. about whether their own child's teacher would express such crass and offensive views about their own child in the privacy of the staffroom. My brother is absolutely livid about it, because he's concerned that parents might be more suspicious of him and his attitudes.

Even though I didn't see it I'm going to the website to see if I can email. Caligula, good point, that is exactly one of my big reservations before DS went to special school, that the staff would have "opinions" about the kids (and their parents) and characterise us in unflattering ways! I couldn't have been more wrong, about the kids anyway, some of the parents definitely are known in a certain way

Ahh Channel 4 - they sure know how to offend people.

Complain by all means, but you may well end up even angrier. I did a couple of years ago at a programme they put out on a Sunday lunchtime with what I considered some quite adult sex scenes. I was angry as my little dd could very easily have seen them and it was inappropriate for the time of day. When they eventually got around to replying to my letter, it was poorly written, deliberatly failed to see the point I was making and ended along the lines of 'if you don't like it, switch it off..'

I don't know what's worse, the ignorance of some of their programmes or the 'couldn't give a s*' attitude if you say something about it.

I dunno, I got a brilliant apology from them a few weeks ago. Someone ought to write though.