My son has been attending a preschool swimming class since the beginning of the year. Unlike his previous class because of the layout of the pool I can not see him during the lesson so am heavily dependant on teacher feedback to judge his progress.
Despite this I haven't received any feedback since he started (in January) and have witnessed parents getting their heads bitten off when they try to speak to the swimming teachers at the end of the lesson. I can sort of understand as they have back to back lessons so don't have time to chat to everyone after the lesson (though they do occasionally speak to some parents).
Anyway I found out last month that there is a form you can use to communicate with the teacher. Filled this in but still didn't get any response and when I asked them about this they said they never received it.
Recently at the end of the lesson the teacher called out across the pool in front of the other parents and my child that he had made progress today and prior to this had been really difficult to instruct as he gets distracted in the water and doesn't focus very well. Now I was a bit embarrassed that she had called this out in front of all the parents but what made me really livid is that my ds heard this and when he came to me kept repeating that his teacher had said he was difficult at swimming (he is 3 1/2 so couldn't fully understand what she had said). I kept trying to explain away that part and focus on the improvement bit but all he kept repeating was the bit about him being difficult.
Now I hate confrontation normally but I was so upset that I went back to the pool and called the swim teacher to speak to me and told her what she had said had upset my son. She repeated again that previously he hadn't been a good listener and it was up to me to work on that. However she then divulged to me that he is actually a good swimmer and had won 2 races that day. This pissed me off even more, firstly because she had only told me that after I confronted her about what she previously said and secondly because it contradicted what she had previously said which is that he does not follow instruction well. How could he have improved so much if he didn't listen. Anyway I now just want to move him from that class as I feel like the teachers play favourites and that they only focus on the negative with him so won't move him on to the next stage (just to remind that until this incident I had received no feedback whatsoever about his progress and only after questioning did they bother to tell me he was good enough at swimming to win races in his class). Am I being unreasonable to be so annoyed and should I move him?
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Needabreaknow · 27/07/2016 14:42
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