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My 6 year old boy began having behavioural issues at the beginning of the year, prior to this he had never been in trouble. The teacher in his class (who has since left the school) was newly qualified and so after February half term he was moved into the schools other Yr 2 class as the teacher was more experienced and it was felt that this would be best all round. Because of numbers in order for this to happen the school employed a new inexperienced Teaching Assistant. This person happened to be a family friend (who we were due to go on holiday with) and had her own son in the class. Despite initially settling in, in the middle of March my son was given a fixed term exclusion for grabbing a girl by the wrist, this incident was witnessed solely by the above TA. Since this my son has lived under almost constant observation with this TA being the one primarily responsible for doing this and making notes. After this things seemed to be going well and our boy would often come home and say he had been playing with our friend the TA's son, although we did feel that our friend was keeping her distance from us. On Friday just passed we were informed by the school that they had received a formal complaint from another parent relating to accusations of threats and intimidation against our son and would need to look into it. Then at the weekend we had a text message from our friend the TA to say that she would no longer come on holiday with us as our boys were not getting along. When we asked what the issue was so that we could get together and work through it she just maintained that her son had been very upset by something ours had said or done - we still don't know the details despite asking.
We are now concerned that this is a clear conflict of interests as she could not remain impartial if she were to witness any altercation between our 2 children yet she continues to be the TA in the class.
Should this TA be removed and placed into another class? Especially as the formal complaint may have come from her
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Teaching assistant has conflict of interest?
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user1494322337 · 09/05/2017 11:48
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