An upset mum took to a popular parenting forum for advice after her son was punished for what she says is a ‘nonsense exclamation’.
The parent took to Mumsnet’s Am I Being Unreasonable thread to ask if the phrase ‘flipping heck’ was rude after her eight-year-old son was punished at school after blurting it out after missing a goal in PE.
She wrote: “At pick up yesterday the teacher asked me to wait behind for a minute as my 8yo Ds had been put on red (they have a traffic light system- start on green, if really good go to silver and then gold, if naughty go to orange and then red. Get on red twice in a term and you have to go to the headmaster’s office).
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“Ds has always been really good, he’s incredibly shy, hates drawing attention to himself and normally just bobs along on green every week.
“He looked mortified when he came out and the teacher told me he’d had to go straight onto red for bad language during PE. Ds tried to say ‘I only said’ but teacher interrupted and said ‘please don’t say it…
