To think the school has not dealt with this well?

Terrible, just terrible.
Bring in Ofsted.
Put the school into Special Measures.

I need another thinking about it. Poor little love.

Perhaps you could complain to somebody. Anyone know who GT could contact?

I don't know what the teacher was thinking of. Is this the way things are panning out in our schools today?

I totally agree with you Faye. Poor GT's dgd.

GrannyTwice, please give her lots of from me.

YANBU GrannyTwice, I wonder about some teachers. When my GD was punched in the stomach by a boy about two years ago at her school she was made to apologise to him by the deputy head because she interfered. She had told this boy to leave her friend alone. My SIL went to the school and told the deputy head he could apologise to my GD then 7. My DD also a teacher said there is no reason ever for a boy to punch a girl in the stomach. Since that incident this boy and my GD have become good friends. He was suspended by the school at the end of last year for punching a boy in the face. He is very well behaved at DD's house and visits regularly. He looks up to my SIL who has taken him under his wing. Pity the deputy head who made my GD apologise still has no idea on how to handle this boy.

I don't understand why some previous posters think it's okay for a boy to tie a girl up at school. No means No. I will join you also GT.

Not funny and I can't abide Jane Austen.
Oh, go on, have a lol harrigran

Oh yes, white tonight of course, with fish.

DH asked if my fish was from Holland.
(Duchy salmon). Oh dear, too much white

GTwice you may not have read the book, but I think you went to see the film! lol

Not that I think it is funny, entertaining or amusing. But then I haven't read the book or seen the film so how would I know?

Not funny and I can't abide Jane Austen.

Why can't we have a white . ?

On my second

I think I'll join you GT

I get Ian Fleming, and I get Jane Austen and irony, but I don't see irony in the teachers response, maybe hypocrisy.
Just me.

Shall I hand you a gun?

Serves you right GT. (This is Gransnet - remember?)

No you are not being unreasonable grannytwice the teacher did not handle this situation very well at all. This is not just about feminism but also bullying and respecting other peoples rights to say no. If the situation had been reversed and it was a girl tieing up a boy and putting a mask on him against his will it would be equally wrong. Just flabbergasted I thought we had moved way beyond this.

Before I raise the glass to my lips, I want to say that I don't think any of this is a laughing matter which is clear from my posts on the original thread- I just wanted to turn it round for another perspective.

Oh dear oh dear - I assumed everyone had read the thread about the 11 year old boy dressing up as Christian Grey? This was my clearly pathetic ironic attempt to show if from another perspective. Clear fail <slinks off for several

A boy at my primary school thought it was 'a joke' to tie a little girl to a tree in the playground . He ran off back into class and the little girl nearly strangled herself trying to get free, she told the teacher who said she was a tattletale.
She was my best friend and, ending up with serious MH problems for the rest of her life, she committed suicide aged 27.
Until the inquest I didn't know she'd had a horrible young childhood with physical and sexual abuse from her father and other family males-she told the police she was scared what would happen next.
Ok the boy wasn't to know but the teacher dismissed it as 'one of those things'.
It haunts me when teachers are dismissive of a child's complaints, in fact it makes me furious jinglbellsfrocks

They used to call it "learning by doing" in my day - I'm sure all those involved had a valuable learning experience. Apart from, possibly, the teaching staff.
But are you sure you're not getting a bit addled Grannytwice (as we do at our advance age) and thinking about Michael Bond, author of the story recently made into a hugely successful film?

What do 11yr olds know about post -feminist irony? I was still on Enid Blyton

Loopylou - it's not real.

And as for the boy's mother's FB comment .......

I'm really concerned that the fact that an 11 year old girl is very upset yet the teacher dismisses it as 'jolly good fun' and is using the child's distress as a means of demonstrating 'post-feminist irony' (whatever that's supposed to mean) and the works of Jane Austen. I'd have been hopping mad.
What author would she have used if ABH had been involved, 'Silence of the Lambs'?
Certainly not being unreasonable GrannyTwice when it comes to a very upset child.

I think it was so she couldn't identify him otherwise he might have had to kill her- at least that's what his mum has put on her fb page. So really, as the mum said, he was doing my dgd a favour