As title reads. Anyone with any experience of this. I have 3 DC's who attend a popular primary school. I am starting to get uncomfortable with the number of parents employed by the school. Out of the 16 classes, 9 have a parent working as a TA. There are also 2 teachers with children at the school. The employment process for TA seems to be to drop a CV in the school office and wait for an opportunity, no advertising whatsoever. Four of the TA's are good friends out side school and have all followed into employment, one after the other.
What's starting to concern me is that some children appear to think they have more 'power' than others, (no guesses to whose children). Many of the teachers are young teachers who appear to be rather fearful of upsetting the applecart. Many experienced teachers have left in the past 2 years. and there are families who have pulled their children out and registered at other local schools. (This would have been highly unheard of a couple of years back except for moving out of area etc)
There are a lot of unpleasant undercurrents buzzing around, I would like to know if other MN's have experienced a high proportion of parents working in school and what your opinions are on this. Many thanks
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Too many parents employed as TA's
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reallysayingsomething · 07/07/2012 08:40
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