Parents Fury As School Asks Children To Write Down ‘What P***** Them Off’
OUTRAGED parents have reacted in fury after their children were given homework asking them to write about ‘what p****s them off’.
The six-year-old pupils were set the piece of work as part of handwriting exercise.
But their parents were left fuming when they spotted an instruction on the worksheet saying: 'Handwrite what p****s you off.’
Jay McCulley, 30, and Jade Dixon, 28, were shocked when they saw the swear word on an exercise sheet their son Mason McCulley brought home from Bishop King Primary School, in Lincoln.
They also criticised teachers for setting the clearly American worksheet which also told children to write their 'favorite number’ and 'the color of their shirt’.
Another angry parent, who did not wish to be named, said her young daughter even asked her: 'Mummy what does p****s mean?’
Homework: Mason McCulley with his father Jay
Mr McCulley, a courier driver from Lincoln, said: 'Mason came back last week and luckily I picked out his homework before giving it to him.
'It was shocking. Their teacher Miss Thomson has clearly just printed it off the internet and didn’t even check it through before handing it out because it’s all American.
'I took it straight off him and called up the school the next day.
'You’d have thought a primary school teacher would check through their work before handing it out to six-year-olds.
'The headteacher sent out a letter apologising, but she hasn’t said anything in person.’
He added: 'People are pretty outraged. It’s just lazy work from the teacher really.’
The Handwriting challenge, which has 25 different tasks, was set to the entire class of 40.
Bishop King Primary School
The tasks included 'Handwrite what pumps you up’, 'Handwrite something in cursive’ and 'Handwrite your reason for liking Harry Potter or Twilight better’.
Full-time mother Ms Dixon added: 'I think it is disgusting and does not set the children a good example at all.
'I am angry knowing I have to leave my kids there for six hours – it makes you wonder what other mistakes they are making.’
She added: 'Some parents think it’s funny, but most of us are shocked. This is about our kids’ welfare.
'The school are making us feel like we’re the bad parents – they don’t see that we’re protecting our kids.’
Another mother, who wished to remain anonymous, added: “My daughter came up to me with the sheet in her hand asking me what the word p****s means.
Response: The school’s letter to parents
'I nearly fell off my seat. I am absolutely appalled the teacher could not be bothered to even read the work she was setting them.
‘Not only is it teaching them how to swear its teaching them how to spell incorrectly. It is a joke.’
In a letter sent out to parents, head teacher Kate Rouse, admitted the school had failed to check the homework before it was sent out.
She said: 'We acknowledge that this document was not appropriate to be given to the children and I apologise for any distress caused.’
A spokesman for the school added: 'It is a very unfortunate incident and we are very sorry.’
Bishop King Primary School, which caters for 358 pupils aged three to 11, was told it required improvement at its last Ofsted inspection in March last year.
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