What interesting things have your kids brought back from school?

mad muffin · 13-12-2015 08:32PM #1

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

The Backwards Man · 13-12-2015 08:35PM

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

Books?!!!!

mad muffin · 13-12-2015 08:37PM

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 · 13-12-2015 08:38PM

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 · 13-12-2015 08:39PM

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 · 13-12-2015 08:40PM

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 · 13-12-2015 08:41PM

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 · 13-12-2015 08:44PM

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 · 13-12-2015 08:45PM

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. · 13-12-2015 08:49PM

Head lice.

Hammer89 · 13-12-2015 09:24PM

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 · 13-12-2015 10:53PM

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 · 13-12-2015 10:58PM

mad muffin wrote: »

My son, who's 5 and in Junior Infants brought this this 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 · 13-12-2015 11:00PM

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

Turtyturd · 13-12-2015 11:14PM

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 · 13-12-2015 11:15PM

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 · 13-12-2015 11:18PM

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 · 13-12-2015 11:21PM

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 · 13-12-2015 11:26PM

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 · 13-12-2015 11:27PM

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 · 13-12-2015 11:30PM

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 · 13-12-2015 11:30PM

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 · 13-12-2015 11:37PM

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 · 14-12-2015 05:29PM

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Head lice.

I was going to say that ðŸ˜„

melissak · 14-12-2015 05:33PM

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

mad muffin · 14-12-2015 06:12PM

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

The_Valeyard · 14-12-2015 07:18PM

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

Donalh · 14-12-2015 07:27PM

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 · 14-12-2015 08:48PM

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

purplecow1977 · 17-12-2015 10:24PM

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 · 17-12-2015 10:25PM

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!

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