Would you be angry if you had signed a permission slip to say that you would drive your 9 year old DD to a match at another school - only to arrive at school, to find that DD had already left, and been allowed to go in another parent's car to the match?
The teacher who organised match wasn't at school that afternoon, and so no one else really knew what was happening.
HT rang me next day, and explained that DD's teacher had told the team the day before, they would all travel in this one parent's car, and so they should let their parents know. HT said that as DD was in Yr 5, the teacher assumed she was responsible enough to pass on messages to home.
Obviously, DD didn't tell me.
HT then went on to say, that she and the teacher had questioned DD, who said she hadn't known about the travel changes. Her teacher insisted DD had known because she had been present when the team were told. DD kept repeating that she hadn't know (knowing DD, she probably wasn't playing attention), but then eventually she admitted she was lying.
The HT said she, and the teacher, then told DD off for lying, and that this was serious as it could get the school into trouble. HT told me that DD had been very upset, but everything was fine now. And, that now they knew DD was forgetful and unreliable, they would take more care in future.
When DD came home, I tackled her and she got very upset again, and isnsisted she hadn't known and had only admitted to lying, because the HT and teacher kept saying that was what she was doing, and she just wanted them to stop and to get out of the HT's office.
Whether DD was/wasn't lying or whether she did/didn't know isn't really the point is it?
I just don't think the school relying on 9 year old children to pass on important information is either safe or sensible -and I think it shows poor safe-guarding procedures. The school have both mine, and DH's mobile numbers and emails, and obviously our home phone number - so can't understand why they didn't confirm anything with us.
Neither was it explained why, if the teacher who was in charge of it all, wasn't at school that afternoon,no one else has been designated to be in charge of the team/transport etc.
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TwinkleTwunt · 07/02/2013 12:37
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