A dinner lady has pulled out my child's tooth, am I overreacting?

IrishRose12

onlyroz wrote: »

Yes, they phoned me asking me to come in with fresh socks. I would have thought they could get some from lost property, but apparently not. When I said that there was no way I'd drive 15 miles to bring in socks they then insisted that I ring the after-school club to inform then that my daughter would be arriving sock-less. I did as they asked but the lady running the after-school club was just as bewildered as I was over why all this bureaucracy was required :rotfl:

I got the impression that the school thought I was being cruel for allowing a five-year-old to remain sock less for a whole three hours, but I viewed it as a character-building exercise. Wet socks = discomfort is not a bad lesson to learn...

LOL if she didn't like it she'll not do it again lol. I like your thinking, if only we could have more parents like you these days!
Each school year I buy a pack of 10 socks and 2 packs of underwear to have as spare for those just incase moments, this past 2 years I haven't had to buy any but they're there in case anything happens

Gra76

Schools have gone nuts.

Our local primary won't allow kids to take pencil cases in. Why? Well, apparently it seems that it will cause upset to any child whos parents can't afford a pencil case. I did laugh when I got the letter they sent explaining it.

They've also taken down the play area (which had plenty of soft padding around it) because a child might fall in the play area and hurt themselves.

The kids aren't allowed to run at playtimes either as it can lead to them running into each other and injuring themselves, I can understand that rule when the kids are inside, but it applies to outside as well. Makes the football matches much less fun according to my 9yr old son who was recently reported for running at lunchtime (during a game of football).

Honestly, if you didn't laugh....

As for the OP - Massive over-reaction. No more to say really.

GedlingRed

In answer to your question...yes in my opinion you were over reacting. I work in a school office and blimey if we had to stop and call every parent for the slightest thing we'd never get anything done. In fact today we had to call home for 6 kids who'd forgotten various items of football kit, one child who had a splinter which we weren't allowed to remove, one had forgotten a pencil case, two girls couldn't removed their earings and again we're not allowed to take them out & one poor child who was poorly but mum decided to turn her phone off so we couldn't contact her!

GobbledyGook

Gra76 wrote: »

Schools have gone nuts.

Our local primary won't allow kids to take pencil cases in. Why? Well, apparently it seems that it will cause upset to any child whos parents can't afford a pencil case. I did laugh when I got the letter they sent explaining it.

They've also taken down the play area (which had plenty of soft padding around it) because a child might fall in the play area and hurt themselves.

The kids aren't allowed to run at playtimes either as it can lead to them running into each other and injuring themselves, I can understand that rule when the kids are inside, but it applies to outside as well. Makes the football matches much less fun according to my 9yr old son who was recently reported for running at lunchtime (during a game of football).

Honestly, if you didn't laugh....

As for the OP - Massive over-reaction. No more to say really.

Part of the reason for that is that parents expect their kids to be supervised every second of the day and go ape if they get hurt. Also children are used to being supervised and they often don't know their own limits because they are so used to being told how high to go, to be careful etc.

They forget completely that when they/we were at school the janitor kept a rough eye on everyone in the playground and that was that. The school don't have the staff to be all over every kid.

The schools can't win either. If they use classroom assistants to cover the playground then parents kick off when they aren't in the class straight after break/lunch (forgetting they are entitled to breaks) and yet the budget for lots of playground staff simply isn't there.

I wouldn't be a school HT (not that I'm qualified anyway :rotfl:) for all the money in the world. Way too much time now spent managing parents than helping educate the children.

Mojisola

GobbledyGook wrote: »

They forget completely that when they/we were at school the janitor kept a rough eye on everyone in the playground and that was that. The school don't have the staff to be all over every kid.

When were you at school?

We always had teachers on duty in the playground when I was at school and, when I was teaching, we were all on a playground duty rota.

Person_one

Mojisola wrote: »

Has anyone ever got concussion from these kind of bumps?

Falling off play equipment or down stairs, maybe, but from a minor bump?

Concussions aren't really the big worry, but it is possible to die from what seems like a very minor 'bump':

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Parents-heartbreak-Bristol-toddler-dies-bump-head/story-18264408-detail/story.html

GobbledyGook

Mojisola wrote: »

When were you at school?

We always had teachers on duty in the playground when I was at school and, when I was teaching, we were all on a playground duty rota.

I left school in 97.

When I was at primary school it was monitors & the janitor. There's no way parents now would stand for the eldest children (P7 as I was at a Scottish school at that point) looking out for the youngest kids. I can only imagine the reaction they'd get to 'no we didn't send an accident slip home as the P7 didn't feel it was a bad fall' :rotfl:

None of the schools I've worked in have teachers on playground duty. A couple of them have seen the SMT out there sometimes, but not the teachers.

paulineb_2

GobbledyGook wrote: »

I left school in 97.

When I was at primary school it was monitors & the janitor. There's no way parents now would stand for the eldest children (P7 as I was at a Scottish school at that point) looking out for the youngest kids. I can only imagine the reaction they'd get to 'no we didn't send an accident slip home as the P7 didn't feel it was a bad fall' :rotfl:

None of the schools I've worked in have teachers on playground duty. A couple of them have seen the SMT out there sometimes, but not the teachers.

As far as I know in scotland there are still some primary schools that have monitors. Im not sure that parents have a say in that in all schools to be honest.

GobbledyGook

paulineb wrote: »

As far as I know in scotland there are still some primary schools that have monitors. Im not sure that parents have a say in that in all schools to be honest.

Oh I didn't mean no schools had them anymore. I just mean it's now alongside adult supervision and it's not the same as it used to be.

When I was P7 we had a bottle of dettol, some cotton wool and gloves as well as a box of plasters. If the cut was bigger than the plaster or it was a head knock the kid got sent to the office, other than that it was dealt with by us. We very rarely seen an adult in the infant playground unless we'd asked for help with a specific issue.

When I used to see some parents going nuts about stuff it made me wonder how they'd react to that set up :rotfl:

Mojisola

Person_one wrote: »

Concussions aren't really the big worry, but it is possible to die from what seems like a very minor 'bump':

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Parents-heartbreak-Bristol-toddler-dies-bump-head/story-18264408-detail/story.html

Bumps on the head are more serious for babies and toddlers but even taking this into account, the doctor said -
"This was the freak result of a minor bump to the head."

It's possible that the family has a genetic weakness - "In his statement Mr Gumeringer went on to say that his wife's sister Michelle had also died aged five or six, after falling off a climbing frame in her native South Africa."