Anonymous wrote:That seems semi-inappropriate, especially with the slew of sexual misconduct allegations that keep cropping in this area (and nationwide). I understand the logic in covering up a child's hands, so they can learn keyboarding skills. However, there are other ways of meeting that objective. The teacher could buy cardboard covers or make their own contraption to accomplish the same intention. Something does not sit well with me when a teacher needs to say, "Now stick your hands up the leg of the boxer shorts and feel around for hand placement."

You should discuss your concerns with the teacher. If she still continues to use this as a learning tool, then you may wish to reach out to the Principal and CC legal counsel for that public school district for an added effect.

Anonymous wrote:Back when I was learning in Hs they just taped a piece of white paper to the bottom on the monitor that hung over the keyboard. Worked perfectly fine.

Anonymous wrote:Gross. Why not just regular shorts?

Anonymous wrote:That seems semi-inappropriate, especially with the slew of sexual misconduct allegations that keep cropping in this area (and nationwide). I understand the logic in covering up a child's hands, so they can learn keyboarding skills. However, there are other ways of meeting that objective. The teacher could buy cardboard covers or make their own contraption to accomplish the same intention. Something does not sit well with me when a teacher needs to say, "Now stick your hands up the leg of the boxer shorts and feel around for hand placement."

You should discuss your concerns with the teacher. If she still continues to use this as a learning tool, then you may wish to reach out to the Principal and CC legal counsel for that public school district for an added effect.

Anonymous wrote:No that's freaking weird. If my office handed me some underwear to dust my office or something

... No. I would complain.

Anonymous wrote:That seems semi-inappropriate, especially with the slew of sexual misconduct allegations that keep cropping in this area (and nationwide). I understand the logic in covering up a child's hands, so they can learn keyboarding skills. However, there are other ways of meeting that objective. The teacher could buy cardboard covers or make their own contraption to accomplish the same intention. Something does not sit well with me when a teacher needs to say, "Now stick your hands up the leg of the boxer shorts and feel around for hand placement."

You should discuss your concerns with the teacher. If she still continues to use this as a learning tool, then you may wish to reach out to the Principal and CC legal counsel for that public school district for an added effect.

Anonymous wrote:OP again. I understand that it can be completely innocent but it certainly crosses boundaries which are difficult to explain to a child. My blanket statement would be not to touch underwear given by a random adult in your life. Teacher is male which shouldn't matter but because it is Men's underwear, it somehow didn't sit well with me.

I guess the lesson here is about teaching context and why this instance of it may be OK. However, I also feel like this is exactly what predators take advantage of (normalizing something, making you think you are crazy to be considering the worst case, and then slipping in new variations of the normalized activity). Or someone else may take advantage of the fact these kind of activities have been normalized. Children are still trying to figure out when to call something out, what is cause for alarm, etc. This type of activity just muddles the boundaries.

Again, I understand, it is up to parents to keep teaching about context. This is a specialty teacher (not regular teacher) that my child sees once a week and I don't know him from Adam. I thought it was odd that he did this and I wanted to see what others thought. I would think differently if the regular teacher did this (and communicated that they are doing this quirky activity and the purpose of it).