Because the member of staff who took my phone call made me feel a little unreasonable. And grilled me rather a lot too.
DP walks past a high school on his way from work back to his car. Today, he was walking past not long after the end of the school day.
A young boy which DP estimated to be around year 7 age, in full uniform, grabbed the carrier bag of shopping which DP was carrying. He got it off DP, but DP's quick reflexes grabbed the boy and took the bag off him. The boy ran off making stupid noises.
When he got home, he told me about it. My own year 7 DS was sat in the room at the time. So I decided that it would be the right thing to do to contact the school to discuss the matter.
a) So that the school could remind their pupils on behaviour.
And b) To set an example to my own son - that people will not tolerate bad behaviour. (He has just started high school, and is walking too and from school).
Anyway, the purpose of my call was simply to inform the school that one of their pupils had behaved in this way, and could it please be addressed through assembly or a letter to pupils/parents. Whatever way they thought suitable. However they seemed rather perplexed by my call. They wanted to know the precise location of the incident, which side of the road it happened on. Wanted to know how tall the child was, what type of uniform they had on. I wasn't asking them to identify the child, merely asking them to bring it up to all the pupils whatever way they thought appropriate.
So WIBU to ring the school? We have no way of identifying the child, DP said he wouldn't be able to accurately describe or recognise him. But I think it would be important that the child know they haven't got away with the behaviour.
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AIBU to contact a school about the behaviour of one of their pupils?
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TheDetective · 14/09/2013 00:20
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