Creative Teaching Or Irresponible Prank?

[kvalidir]

Something which I consider to be wonderful , creative teaching has taken place at Trinity School, however some children's parents appear to have taken umbridge about it saying their children are 'scared', 'terrified' and 'having nightmares'. Is this a case of the school not having thought things through or of poor parenting in the sense that the parents seem unwilling or unable to adequately explain to their kids that there really is nothing to worry about and happily jumping on the bandwagon of criticising the school?



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2685677/Teacher-apologises-parents-alien-egg-project-leaves-children-tears-scared-school.html

[EcclesCake]

I've grilled a few in my time but never tried coddling them ;-)

[pixie373]

Inksplotter, i don't think anyone has said it should be banned, just that it should have been thought through better. When you're playing a trick on 250 young children, did it not occur to a single teacher, that one or two might be a little disturbed by it? A letter to the parents would have put the responsibility back on them to prepare or withdraw their child. The school wouldn't have had any complaints. Either way, the school was shortsighted, which isn't reassuring at a primary school.

[Ellipsis]

> it should have been thought through better

The problem is that the kids had far more active imaginations than the teachers gave them credit for, or had themselves ...

[Svejk]

you poached my line, eccles.