Sons P1 school teacher

bigmaz

Northern_Princess wrote: »

I hope you mange to get it resolved. There's nothing worse than being worried about your children.

Thanks Northern. I am normally really laid back about this kinda stuff (sometimes a bit too laid back as my wife says, lol), hence why its taken so long to do anything as I just thought it was because he didnt like school etc, but is looking a bit more than that, I know I havent really explained everything very well.

dktreesea

Sorry to say, but I have come across a similar teacher before, who also bullied my son when he was in P1/P2. I should have listened to my gut and taken him out of the school as soon as I was aware a teacher was targeting him. He suffered for nothing. I did go beyond the headteacher, and fortunately for the kids who could have been her victims in future years, she was encouraged by the council to take early retirement. Not before I caught her lying about a conversation that had taken place between ourselves and her, which fortunately I had taped. My little lad suffered for nothing.

Beware some teachers. Parents in the UK are far too ready to disbelieve their children and go with the teacher instead, because they are scared of making waves. OP, teachers who behave as abominably as you P1 son's teacher is behaving towards him deserve to be identified to authorities beyond the school gate. The headteacher in this situation will be useless. If she/he was any good, a situation such as you describe would never have been allowed to occur in a well run school.

Teachers have so much power in schools in Britain it's like stepping back 30 years in time compared to in the rest of Europe. It's about time parents stopped being so weak and apathetic when it comes to dealing with teachers and stood up for their children.

z.n

My DS is bright- not off the scale but was way ahead of his peer group by the end of Year 2. The result was he spent a lot of time 'helping' others with their maths or reading a book, got bored, was picked on by some of the less able boys and became frustrated and disruptive- thus attracting the ire of the teacher who was used to being able to leave him to get on with things by himself while she concentrated her efforts on the kids struggling at the bottom.

We had a similarly uncomfortable parents evening followed by a rather distressing school report/character critique which had me in tears in the playground. Now I can say the teacher's honesty was the best thing as it prompted us into action.We decided to move school and years later he is now happy at a super selective grammar. He remains best friends with one of the boys in his original class. He just needed a different environment.