These teachers and their questionable choices

I think I'd be on drugs if I were at teacher nowadays!! It's fuckin hard work and I couldn't do it ,no way. Joking aside, I think you are being incredibly naive to think that this kind of thing (drugs) doesn't happen around normal folk. I am anti drugs totally, but it is more common than you think in many circles.

Role model? They teach

When someone disagrees when a collective does something they disagree with the term role model is used

If the op genuinely thought something illegal was going on they would go to police

We’ve gone from partying in the garden, taking the kids to NHC during the summer holidays to teaching “off their heads on drugs”. This thread is the gift that keeps on giving 😄

Just because you know that one or two of them did it once or twice, does not mean they are all doing it every time they get together.
It may be much rarer than you think and you are now just assuming it's every time they get together to have fun.

Also, newsflash, people in all walks of life dabble once in a while . . . doctors, nurses, lawyers, social workers, police, the headteacher 😱

Do you feel like it’s a PBP trying to cause sone drama? I mean you could be right. Might be worth reporting.

But she won’t.

Which makes it doubly annoying. She just wants to gossip.

The OP is not talking about a spouse in a relationship - they are talking about "friends" whose activities they initially just heard about then we had a drip feed to claim they had seen it themselves. That is a world away from spouses posting that their wife/husband is regularly taking drugs and its impairing their relationship. That isn't even apples and pears - its apples and plastic boxes.

The OP is not being given a hard time they are being told to report it or shut up. Its good advice. S/he should take it.

“Kelly from the council estate” may not enjoy your lifestyle OP, but she may well have a better command of grammar.
“I seen” lets you down badly.

Oh come on! People ask advice on here about safe guarding related stuff all the time. The OP has done this anonymously. I can totally see why it’s got people irritated as it feels like an attack on a profession that’s already full of completely exhausted staff. But if we put those emotions to one side the advice should always be to report concerns and let the professionals decide to investigate or not.

If you have any genuine safeguarding concerns for their children and/or pupils, contact the appropriate authorities.
Otherwise, don't be a scandal-mongering cunt on MN and go about your day.

You do nothing because you can confirm nothing.

I suggest you mind your own business and get a life Op!

No, any such concerns go to the head first. This is because the head will conduct an investigation and governors must remain impartial in case they are needed to sit on a disciplinary committee.

Unless you match each poster who doesn't condemn drug use against their views where they do so, then your post is meaningless.

HTH

I mean, sure.

You also don’t gossip about it on the internet 🤷🏻‍♀️

I'm not debating that. I simply said it's funny how these threads go when it's a DH using coke, everyone says LTB.

Teachers are as free to take Class A drugs as anyone else is, i.e. not at all, really.

Still, their choice and I don't see how their profession is relevant.

Do what you would do for anyone else. Call the Social Services and the Police. If that sounds ridiculous to you, then just drop it.

FFS. You can't micro manage people's lives. Teachers are humans too.

The bigger question is why do you care so much about this op? What does that tell you about you life?

And yet has done nothing about it - what does the OP want from this thread? If they felt there was cause for concern there is nothing to stop them reporting it SS or NSPCC without all this faux hand wringing.

In practice we have the main concerns being a party of some sort held in the householders' garden and going to a major public event along with thousands of other families.

If the OP has seen them neglecting the children in some way or using illegal drugs then they need to take the former to SS/NSPCC and the latter to the police. ie they need to put up or shut up.

This is the first thread I've seen on MN where posters are, in the majority, not condemning drug use.

Such double standards.

I'm certainly in no position to be judging anyone else's lifestyle or behaviour but I do think the teachers need to be a whole lot more careful and discreet. Openly admitting to taking drugs in the presence of a parent at the school where you teach is really, really stupid.

A couple of very young staff at the school where I teach did get immediate dismissal for taking cocaine a few years ago. But it's an independent school so I don't know if the process could be so quick or direct in a state school. Might be a disciplinary or a warning first. But it wouldn't be pleasant either way.

I would be extremely concerned about any parent doing coke and pills while in charge of a child (or just in general, these are class A substances). I’d be particularly concerned if the person was a teacher. All the cool girls on this thread saying that it’s normal and just winding down are on another planet

Again that’s your opinion. You have no clue what the OP knows and doesn’t know.

She has given some vague details to protect her identity I assume, but the upshot of the question seems to be ….., should I tell someone if I’ve seen a teacher taking class A drugs at a party and it is my belief she does it regularly and it’s impairing her ability to care for her kids? Well my answer to that would be yes. If that teacher wanted to protect herself from potentially vexatious claims then they should do what most teachers do and lock down their social media.

If you are concerned, speak to the Governors.

Ah, drugs are another thing that only exist in London. That’ll be why Trainspotting was set there.