My DS started school in Sept, so far, so good. He loves it and has settled in well. Only problem is that within the last 8 days he has come home with 2 scratches on his face made by the same boy in his class. The teacher has sent a letter home each time explaining what happened, and on the first occasion the teacher came and spoke to me apologised to me and said she hadn't been there at the time but that she was gong to speak to the boy's parents.
The second incident was yesterday and I went over to the TA and the supply teacher at picking up time, as soon as I saw the second mark on DS's face. (He had told me that the same boy had done it so I thought right I'm going to have to say something if its the same boy who has done this again).
I was a bit taken aback by their reaction as they were rather defensive about it. His teacher wasn't there (again) so it was the supply and the TA. They went and got the other reception teacher to speak to me. (there are 45 children split into 2 classes with 2 teachers and 2 TAs). She says, 'it was just an accident... and basically as there are 45 children we can't watch them all the time, these things happen' etc. I said I appreciate that, I know accidents happen but what I am concerned about is the fact that the same child has done this to DS twice now in a matter of days and he has 2 nasty marks on his face, is there a problem here that we should know about? She says she'll raise it with his teacher when she's back.
So, am I being overprotective or would you complain about this too? My DS can be a bit boisterous at times so I am not saying he's an angel, he can also be quite self-righteous so he may have even provoked the other boy or rubbed him up the wrong way but surely this is behaviour is not acceptable? This boy must have really gone out to his way to hit DS on both occasions to have caused the injuries that he has.
Also, talking over it with DH last night, and he said how can they say thay can't watch the children all the time? These are 4 and 5 year olds surely they shouldn't be playing outside unsupervised and how can that be used as an excuse when accidents happen?
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Violence in reception class!
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Ilovehotchoc · 23/10/2009 13:40
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