What interesting things have your kids brought back from school?

mad muffin

My son, who's 5 and in Junior Infants brought thisthis home on Friday. Apparently (according to him) his teacher asked a couple of pupils to hand them out

The Backwards Man

Jaysus, they're giving kids books in school now?!!!!!

Books?!!!!

mad muffin

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Jaysus, they're giving kids books in school now?!!!!!

Books?!!!!

I don't know what you call books in your parts of the woods but in mine, two pieces of paper do not constitute books.

Nore is it appropriate reading material for a 5 year old.

Redser87

mad muffin wrote: »

I don't know what you call books in your parts of the woods but in mine, two pieces of paper do not constitute books.

Nore is it appropriate reading material for a 5 year old.

Was there anything on the back? Maybe it was just recycling!

mad muffin

Redser87 wrote: »

Was there anything on the back? Maybe it was just recycling!

The pictures are the front and back of the two pieces of paper. They were given to take home. My next door neighbor has a kid in the same class, they too got this.

purplecow1977

You'll need to give a little context/background. I hardly believe the teacher gave them random pages torn from an erotic (!) novel!

The Backwards Man

mad muffin wrote: »

I don't know what you call books in your parts of the woods but in mine, two pieces of paper do not constitute books.

Nore is it appropriate reading material for a 5 year old.

Hey man, I'm just trying to let you down gently here. Your son is obviously a headhunter for a large publishing house specialising in low end smutty romance novels and bubblegum spy stories.

mad muffin

purplecow1977 wrote: »

You'll need to give a little context/background. I hardly believe the teacher gave them random pages torn from an erotic (!) novel!

That is it.

On Friday after school I looked in his bag and saw the two pieces of paper. I then read them and couldn't believe what I was reading.

I then quizzed him as to how he came to posses such pieces of paper. He told me that a two girls from class handed them out after little break. I the. Furthe quizzed him as to how they came to do so. He told me the teacher asked them to.

mad muffin

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Hey man, I'm just trying to let you down gently here. Your son is obviously a headhunter for a large publishing house specialising in low end smutty romance novels and bubblegum spy stories.

I simple don't believe it. I'm won't believe it! Not my son! My innocent angel!

Sir Osis of Liver.

Head lice.

Hammer89

I don't have children, but our cat brought home a dead mouse before and just dropped it in the hall, as if to say 'I want to contribute to the house in some way'. It was cute as sh*t.

purplecow1977

mad muffin wrote: »

That is it.

On Friday after school I looked in his bag and saw the two pieces of paper. I then read them and couldn't believe what I was reading.

I then quizzed him as to how he came to posses such pieces of paper. He told me that a two girls from class handed them out after little break. I the. Furthe quizzed him as to how they came to do so. He told me the teacher asked them to.

It just doesn't make sense for any reason that the teacher would ask another child to hand out torn pages from any book! (I'm a teacher, I can't fathom how this could have happened! Unless books were 'donated' by parents, your son ripped the 2 pages out, and then felt guilty and stuffed them in his bag!)

L.Jenkins

mad muffin wrote: »

My son, who's 5 and in Junior Infants brought thisthis home on Friday. Apparently (according to him) his teacher asked a couple of pupils to hand them out

With a reading list like that, lice might evolve to rabies.

Fleawuss

Fleas.
(I don't have any children and this comment appears for nonsensical reasons only)

Turtyturd

My son's class do this thing called Junk art where they bring in recycling and use it to make art. Every week the other kids carry out their little small pieces while my son struggles out with his consisting of several cereal boxes and empty milk containers. It reached a peak a few weeks back when 2 other kids had to help him off the bus with it.

I love him and wouldn't stifle his creativity but there's only so much of other people's rubbish I can take in the house.

mad muffin

purplecow1977 wrote: »

It just doesn't make sense for any reason that the teacher would ask another child to hand out torn pages from any book! (I'm a teacher, I can't fathom how this could have happened! Unless books were 'donated' by parents, your son ripped the 2 pages out, and then felt guilty and stuffed them in his bag!)

God help our future if you are a teacher…

The papers were cut out, not ripped. 5 year olds haven't developed the dexterity yet, to cut that straight. Even my neighbor commented that a 5 year old couldn't have cut the papers.

mad muffin

Turtyturd wrote: »

My son's class do this thing called Junk art where they bring in recycling and use it to make art. Every week the other kids carry out their little small pieces while my son struggles out with his consisting of several cereal boxes and empty milk containers. It reached a peak a few weeks back when 2 other kids had to help him off the bus with it.

I love him and wouldn't stifle his creativity but there's only so much of other people's rubbish I can take in the house.

Haha. So true.

My son is the same. He's so proud of his creations. Then when he goes to bed, off it goes to the recycling bin from whence it came.

The_Valeyard

Story seems off OP, I'm sure you will find out more on Monday when school starts, just seems too bizzare. Must be more going on and I'd say it's more innocent than you think

mad muffin

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Story seems off OP, I'm sure you will find out more on Monday when school starts, just seems too bizzare. Must be more going on and I'd say it's more innocent than you think

Well I fired off an email to the principal, so we'll see what he says.

My theory. The teacher is sick of parents not reading the stuff sent home. So she's conducting an experiment to see if any parent bothers to read this.

BrianBoru00

mad muffin wrote: »

God help our future if you are a teacher…

The papers were cut out, not ripped. 5 year olds haven't developed the dexterity yet, to cut that straight. Even my neighbor commented that a 5 year old couldn't have cut the papers.

God help the teacher if your reaction is to post said pages to an internet message board for discussion - Mountain out of a molehill. 5 year olds haven't developed the reading ability for that literature either.

Don't bother asking the teacher why

Corpus Twisty

Mostly some fairly psycho females..tbh. A few were house-trained, but most seemed determined to sh1t on the rug. "Doing your homework" appeared to be a lot less painful than when I was a kid.

The_Valeyard

mad muffin wrote: »

Well I fired off an email to the principal, so we'll see what he says.

My theory. The teacher is sick of parents not reading the stuff sent home. So she's conducting an experiment to see if any parent bothers to read this.

Maybe should have had a chat to the teacher first before involving the principal. Really doubt she would risk her career on a social experiment involving parents. Hopefully it will all be sorted either way, I'd say it's there's a simple answer for it all.

mad muffin

BrianBoru00 wrote: »

God help the teacher if your reaction is to post said pages to an internet message board for discussion - Mountain out of a molehill. 5 year olds haven't developed the reading ability for that literature either.

Don't bother asking the teacher why

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Maybe should have had a chat to the teacher first before involving the principal. Really doubt she would risk her career on a social experiment involving parents. Hopefully it will all be sorted either way, I'd say it's there's a simple answer for it all.

I'm not worried about the teacher. If she didn't do anything they won't be anything to worry about.

melissak

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Head lice.

I was going to say that 😄

melissak

Maybe they were doing paper maichet or something similar. 5 year old couldn't read or understand that.

mad muffin

Principal got back. More parents complained. Was just a classmate collecting the papers at home and giving them out in class.

The_Valeyard

So all innocent so. Thought as much. No teacher at fault.

Donalh

Seriously, anyone (including OP) who thought this was the work of a teacher needs their head examined. I think it was pretty obvious from the start this was most likely the work of other kids, whether through prank or accident

mad muffin

Hey you never know. It's not like some teachers never went bat shît crazy.

purplecow1977

mad muffin wrote: »

Well I fired off an email to the principal, so we'll see what he says.

My theory. The teacher is sick of parents not reading the stuff sent home. So she's conducting an experiment to see if any parent bothers to read this.

Haha someone has a very active imagination me thinks! ;-)

purplecow1977

mad muffin wrote: »

Hey you never know. It's not like some teachers never went bat shît crazy.

Sounds like you've had a bad experience with Irelands educators. Maybe you should try and sort that. Not healthy!

heldel00

purplecow1977 wrote: »

Sounds like you've had a bad experience with Irelands educators. Maybe you should try and sort that. Not healthy!

Well said. Negativity like this can easily rub off on children and cause unnecessary anxiety for them. Parents (some, not all) please leave your bad school memories at the door and let your child make their own happy ones.

everlast75

OP - is there any chance your son could nip back into school and grab the rest of those pages. I need them... For research purposes..

mad muffin

purplecow1977 wrote: »

Sounds like you've had a bad experience with Irelands educators. Maybe you should try and sort that. Not healthy!

heldel00 wrote: »

Well said. Negativity like this can easily rub off on children and cause unnecessary anxiety for them. Parents (some, not all) please leave your bad school memories at the door and let your child make their own happy ones.

Please, stop talking out of your rear ends. I've never read such rubbish in my life.

Hemerodrome

mad muffin wrote: »

Please, stop talking out of your rear ends. I've never read such rubbish in my life.

Jaysis, your thread was overkill and your answers to people in it are as bad. Relax, maybe have a glass of wine and a read of something erotic your child brought home from school.

mad muffin

Hemerodrome wrote: »

Jaysis, your thread was overkill and your answers to people in it are as bad. Relax, maybe have a glass of wine and a read of something erotic your child brought home from school.

Kindly fûck off… thanks :pac:



Banned

fleet_admiral

A vomiting bug

purplecow1977

mad muffin wrote: »

Please, stop talking out of your rear ends. I've never read such rubbish in my life.

Ah now are you sure about that?????!! What about those pages??? ;-)

boy98

My youngest brought back white dog ****, but that was found on the way home. She was still in educational mode.

gctest50

mad muffin wrote: »

God help our future if you are a teacher…

The papers were cut out, not ripped. 5 year olds haven't developed the dexterity yet, to cut that straight. Even my neighbor commented that a 5 year old couldn't have cut the papers.

Asians