Your thoughts please.

BitterAndTwisted

Take it to the Head of Education and threaten them with Parliament! Give me ruddy strength.

The only questions that should be asked are of the children who did the snooping in the first place and read things that are not any of their damned business.

Going to the Head or discussing it with the teacher will mark the OP out as yet another troublesome helicopter parent who can't bring their child up properly to respect other people's property. From that moment onward her card will be marked. And that won't be in complimentary language either.

OP: get over yourself

RainbowChild_2

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Take it to the Head of Education and threaten them with Parliament! Give me ruddy strength.

The only questions that should be asked are of the children who did the snooping in the first place and read things that are not any of their damned business.

Going to the Head or discussing it with the teacher will mark the OP out as yet another troublesome helicopter parent who can't bring their child up properly to respect other people's property. From that moment onward her card will be marked. And that won't be in complimentary language either.

OP: get over yourself

bad attitude he is concerned about his daughter

I taught the hardest to reach kids in our area for ten years, kids who had been kicked out of school. kids who had been given the day off on Ofsted inspection day....they were between the ages of 14 and 19. I trained to become a dyslexia specialist and fought for every one of them. My own nephew was dyslexic but labelled as "thick". He's a talented artist now with some confidence!

BitterAndTwisted

Your experience is very interesting but has nothing to do with the discussion at hand.

What is your view of being challenged by a parent about documentation which they haven't actually read, that has been repeated by a prying nine-year old who has accessed paper-work that they shouldn't have touched, never mind read?

I'd be getting ready to chastise quite forcefully and it wouldn't be the teaching staff.

RainbowChild_2

The point is that one of the kids have seen it, it shouldn't have been left in that position. If you were in the Doctor's you'd probably have a sneak peek at your records. OP is upset that school suspects dyslexia and hasn't been informed. Schools are desperate to cover dyslexia because of the funding implications and they have a legal duty to help and respond. Anyhoo It's past my bedtime but I will reply tomorrow!

Rev

If you can get to the bottom of if these notes are actually real and your child's teacher suspects she may be dyslexic but hasn't bothered to say anything I'd be furious.

Something like that can have a massive effect on a child's education so for the person in charge of that education to not bother informing the parents of this suspicion (if said notes are real and have been read correctly) that to me is unforgivable.

gunsandbanjos

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

OP: get over yourself

Erm, nope! How about you sod off?

gunsandbanjos

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Your experience is very interesting but has nothing to do with the discussion at hand.

What is your view of being challenged by a parent about documentation which they haven't actually read, that has been repeated by a prying nine-year old who has accessed paper-work that they shouldn't have touched, never mind read?

I'd be getting ready to chastise quite forcefully and it wouldn't be the teaching staff.

Hello? Did you read the OP? MY daughter didn't read them, her friend did, I'm certainly not going to forcefully chastise another child!

dktreesea

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Take it to the Head of Education and threaten them with Parliament! Give me ruddy strength.

The only questions that should be asked are of the children who did the snooping in the first place and read things that are not any of their damned business.

Going to the Head or discussing it with the teacher will mark the OP out as yet another troublesome helicopter parent who can't bring their child up properly to respect other people's property. From that moment onward her card will be marked. And that won't be in complimentary language either.

OP: get over yourself

While you may be right, we are way too precious about our teachers in Britain, putting them on pedestals and not daring to criticise them in case they take it out on our sons and daughters. It's about time we all held teachers to account a bit more than we do. Their behaviour at times is diabolical.

Leaving notes like that out for 9 year olds to read is beyond the pale. They shouldn't have been kept in the classroom - a staff room would have been more secure - much less out and about where kids can have access to them. What gives the teacher the right to claim a child has "too many operations", much less leave her opinion lying around on paper for others to see? Or to say someone is dyslexic if he/she doesn't have adequate training to be able to make that diagnosis?

OP, I wouldn't put up with this. I would bypass the school and have a word about your concerns with the council.

gunsandbanjos

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Going to the Head or discussing it with the teacher will mark the OP out as yet another troublesome helicopter parent who can't bring their child up properly to respect other people's property. From that moment onward her card will be marked. And that won't be in complimentary language either.

OP: get over yourself

Wow, you really do live up to your username don't you? FYI I don't care what 'complimentary language'(:rotfl:) would be used about me. Oooh, not my card! Don't mark my card:eek: I'm perfectly capable of bringing up my child thank you, as I reiterate as you seem to be struggling to comprehend. My child did not go snooping, her friend found the notes and told her about them.

poet123

dktreesea wrote: »

While you may be right, we are way too precious about our teachers in Britain, putting them on pedestals and not daring to criticise them in case they take it out on our sons and daughters. It's about time we all held teachers to account a bit more than we do. Their behaviour at times is diabolical.

Leaving notes like that out for 9 year olds to read is beyond the pale. They shouldn't have been kept in the classroom - a staff room would have been more secure - much less out and about where kids can have access to them. What gives the teacher the right to claim a child has "too many operations", much less leave her opinion lying around on paper for others to see? Or to say someone is dyslexic if he/she doesn't have adequate training to be able to make that diagnosis?

OP, I wouldn't put up with this.the school and have a word about your concerns with the council. I would bypass

Really, you think that is the way to deal with this?

And what if the notes were in the teachers bag and the other child has snooped in there. What if the other child made it up?

If the OP wants and explanation she should (as it appears she intends) ask the teacher concerned and then escalate to the head if she is not satisfied.

As for not daring to criticise....have you read some of the vitriol directed at teachers on these boards? Yet, those very people entrust them with the care of their kids. If I held some of the more extreme views seen on here I wouldn't be so hypocritical as to use their services, I would put my money where my mouth was and home school.