Do you recall ever having to do something weird or uncomfortable in school?
I remember when I was in elementary school they made us take off everything except our under-clothing and we would have to play a game dressed like that. Now that I think about this, I would never want my child to have to take off her clothes to do that. I find it very odd that I had to do that, but was too young to ask what was going on at that time.
Today I was watching a program of children in a classroom and the teacher told the girls that they have to pick a boy to kiss in the classroom (it was Valentines day). I found that to be very weird. Is this appropriate? You could tell most of the boys were disgusted by it and some of them complained to the teacher that some girls wouldnt stop trying to kiss them. Even some of the girls were disgusted by it. This went on for about 20 to 30 minutes, boys and girls would just go around hugging and kissing eachother. eeeekkkkk As a parent, would you be pleased with this interaction of your child?
Did you ever have to do strange things in class? Would you be worried if your child had to do such things?
I had a female teacher. She was a tall blonde, and very nice to all the kids. I have no clue why we had to play that, but the weird thing is, it was done outside of the classroom, in the halls of the school. It could have been for physical education class, but since when do kids have to remove their clothing for that? It's not like we changed into shorts. Nothing bad happened though, it was just for those 30 or so minutes we had to do that, and then we would go back to class and do our lesson. But yeah, freaky, to say the least.
I recall she used to wear these skirts just above her knees and she'd make us sit infront of her on the floor for reading time or whatever. I remember the kids used to giggle because they would look up her skirt, and I was about 4 years old or so and used to think to myself that she needs to wear a longer skirt. But I dont think she was a pedophile, I dont think teachers consider these things with such young children. However, shouldnt a teacher realize this and not wear such clothes after seeing kids giggling and stuff?
It was a school in Europe. A reputable one infact. Imagine all the parents that had no idea that their children were doing this (including mine), even if it was innocent. I'm gonna try and make sure I know what goes on at my children's schools.
When I was in college, we had to watch a videotape of some very disturbing things. Needless to say, people wanted the professor kicked out of the college, but they didnt fire her.
In your beginning thread you mention elementary school, then you mention you were 4yrs old. Which one was it? (big difference between elemenatry and pre-k) I can understand 4 yr old having to take clothes off (maybe she was checking who pooped), but definetaly not in elementary school.
While on this subject, one of the california teachers showed the beheading of one the Americans (the pennsylvania guy) and there was a lot of news on that.
You really do have to watch and pay close attention to what they teach in schools these days. One needs to participate in PTA and not necessarily agree with what the teachers say, the teachers can be, and are wrong sometimes.
n i thought reading romeo and juliet was stupid errrmm we had to talk about our frist kiss which was kinda stupid n then like I remember having to tell like a class full of white kids that i was 16 n never kissed was embarrassing too n then like all these questions that i had to answer
This kind of stuff would never happen in US of A. And even if it did, someone would get fired over it.
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What's so sick about that? You obviously haven't seen the underwear that kids in the olden days had to wear. You could fit a family of albanians in there with room to spare.
I remember, in England, we had to get changed for P.E. (phys. ed.) in the hallway. Now that I think about it, it was quite strange. Then again, there weren't any change rooms and we were little then.
Is this normal??? I have never heard of such thing in my life before.
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