Is it rude for a grade 3 teacher to use the phrase “it’s none of your business” with students?
Question by Eric: Is it rude for a grade 3 teacher to use the phrase “it’s none of your business” with students?
My son’s grade 3 teacher frequently uses the phrase “it’s none of your business” as a way of telling kids to focus on their own work and leave other students alone. I was raised to never use phrases like this, because they are rude. My son comes home saying his teacher was rude to him today (because that’s what we taught him). Is the teacher setting a good example? Are my wife and I being over sensitive? Is this acceptable language to use with grade 3 students?
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8 Responses to Is it rude for a grade 3 teacher to use the phrase “it’s none of your business” with students?
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Perhaps it is rude: however, sticking one’s nose in someone else’ business is definitely rude.
Nothingusefullearnedinschool
March 23, 2013 at 11:12 am
No it’s not, no kid or teenager should be spoken to like that by any teacher.
Tabitha
March 23, 2013 at 12:07 pm
It is rude, but sometimes its nesissary to say it if the child is constantly not focusing on work. I remember my grade teachers saying the same things.
Mariah Lampus
March 23, 2013 at 12:44 pm
Yes. To use it to children is rather rude, as they are much more sensitive towards authoritative figures. I would’ve been upset if I had been told that in 3rd grade. In 9th+ grade, not so much.
Carly
March 23, 2013 at 1:12 pm
Maybe the teacher should be using different words like Mind Your Own Bees Wax or something around that line 🙂
Gabby
March 23, 2013 at 2:01 pm
depends
Yo Mama
March 23, 2013 at 2:43 pm
It’s possible that maybe your son is just hearing the words and not the tone; at that age it’s hard for kids to distinguish. If the teacher’s saying “oh come on, get to work it’s none of your business” in a chirpy tone it’s different to “buckle down, it’s none of your business” in a harsh tone. Yet the phrase in itself isn’t rude, and hopefully the teacher doesn’t intend for it to be.
A
March 23, 2013 at 2:51 pm
It’s a little rude, but sometimes that’s the only way to get through to kids. Most kids seem to think that everything that is going on with everyone else is their concern. I’ve used it before, but generally I’ll turn it around on them. “Is that your business?” “Is that something you need to concern yourself with?” I usually follow it with, “You worry about you and I’ll worry about everyone else.”
J-Dawn
March 23, 2013 at 3:40 pm