DD furious with gym teacher

Jagraf

What do you want to achieve .... Then work backwards.

pollypenny

Urgent appointment with the Head is what I would go for.

The PE teacher's attitude was arrogant . If a child has an ongoing problem, of which the school is fully aware, there is no need for a note to cover each lesson.

But, Meri, I agree with other posters, your DD should be pushing the doctors, too.

heartbreak_star

Good lord, I'm a sports coach and I would never make a kid that is a) on crutches and b) has a long term sick note walk up and down a hall

On the flip side, I can kind of see what GG is saying - PE teachers probably get so many kids trying it on to get out of their lessons that they lose some of their common sense.

I hope your GD gets sorted very soon - definitely push for that scan.

Good luck!

HBS x

rpc

Jagraf wrote: »

What do you want to achieve .... Then work backwards.

I would be looking for a disciplinary against the PE teacher.

I'm the Child Protection Officer for a sport governing body, so if a complaint was made along these lines in our sport it would come to me. This kind of conduct would get a rather robust response.

The NHS are unable to diagnose and have determined an MRI is necessary. Yet this pillock thinks he can diagnose on the basis of a few steps and then prescribe hydrotherapy?

Is it worth going back to your GP and explaining the problems at the hospital? Or get in touch with PALS. Long term sick should have some sort of cover planned. You just need to find out how to break out of the administrative bureaucracy.

supermassive

My immediate response would be to ask a solicitor because these actions are illegal.

tyllwyd

I don't know if it's financially possible for her family, but would a private MRI scan be possible? I'd be worried about her saying her foot is cold and her toes are numb, that doesn't sound right.


BTW my daughter's gym teachers sound similar - her friend had a broken ankle and I'm not sure what the whole story was but the gym teacher told her to take part in a lesson even though she was in pain and shouldn't have done.

Tiddlywinks

I can see the other side though...

The granddaughter has been using crutches long term with just a note from mum - no formal diagnosis, treatment etc... That must look a bit strange to the teacher.

I think the parents need to be a bit more proactive in addressing the issue of diagnosis and treatment - how can they have just let it slide for so long?

Also, we don't know how the conversation went between teacher and child... she may just have made suggestions about using the pool and walking up and down a bit. The granddaughter may just be lacking in confidence and wasn't able to articulate her injuries and limitations.

There are two sides to most situations, let's not get a mob together just yet.

GobbledyGook

Can I just clarify something since someone - not meri - has taken to PM to lambast me....

I'm not, and didn't say the PE teacher was right. In any way...

All I was saying was how the school/teacher is likely to react. Normally there is a note so I'd put money on his/her opening gambit being "Well there was no note so I thought the situation had changed..." The school will claim confusion on the teacher's part, lay the blame 50/50 on teacher and child, and expect it so be all easily sorted.

Hence the suggestion that that is resolved by no PE until a telephone call and note says she can. No more scope for 'confusion' on the teacher's part.

Same with the "hydrotherapy". Going in on the attack can put a school's back up (rightly or wrongly). Whereas going in with "My daughter has had this problem for X months, why am I only now hearing that the PE teacher can organise hydrotherapy?" gives the school only the option to say "Well we can't..." leaving the next response of "Well, why did he/she offer it?"

I'd choose that option because if you say to the school 'The teacher diagnosed nothing wrong with her foot' they'll instantly say 'he/she wouldn't do that, child must have misunderstood' whereas if you've already established that the teacher has gone well beyond their remit/abilities in what they've said further things, like the diagnoses, are just backing up his/her idiocy.

It was a suggestion on how to deal with it. Not an attack on anyone or a defending of the school/teacher.

moomoomama27

The PE teacher was obviously in the wrong, they are not normally qualified to make a diagnoses, or over ride an existing one.

That being said, 3 months is too long, your daughter has the right to request another consultant, or keep on going back. It's entirely possible also to get a drs note for your grand daughter to take into school.

It seem that there's been a total lack of communication from all sides. Why hasn't your daughter talked to the SENCO about this, and have something put in place?

She must go through the head first before escalating the complaint, but she needs to make sure in future she communicates your Gds needs to all involved in her care.

meritaten

moomoomama27 wrote: »

The PE teacher was obviously in the wrong, they are not normally qualified to make a diagnoses, or over ride an existing one.

That being said, 3 months is too long, your daughter has the right to request another consultant, or keep on going back. It's entirely possible also to get a drs note for your grand daughter to take into school.

It seem that there's been a total lack of communication from all sides. Why hasn't your daughter talked to the SENCO about this, and have something put in place?

She must go through the head first before escalating the complaint, but she needs to make sure in future she communicates your Gds needs to all involved in her care.

That was done - and the gym teacher knew why GD1 wasn't participating. my DD knows 'procedure'. she followed it. no it wasn't a 'total lack of procedure from both sides'!