To be annoyed that my DD teacher did this

Yep expect home time to take about half an hour from this point forwards to ensure all little darlings are huddled under and the teacher cannot look around for any other reason so that means she cannot deal with kids forgetting cardigans or water bottles et or speaking to other parents or even shouting kids names who she needs to send home. Enjoy standing in the rain while her focus is keeping them dry not sending them home.

If the teacher really wanted to be spiteful to op’s child I highly doubt she would do it with a 360 spin and jazz hands to make sure parents are looking in her direction whilst she bullies op’s child.

Ridiculous!

yes agree with this, I would observe her with your daughter in future.
Teachers can be horrible too, they're not bloody saints.

doubt it was on purpose

Even Mary Poppins would have found it tricky to pirouette and keep all those children under one umbrella!

She probably turned because another child was wanting her attention, there a lot of them to deal with! Honestly, at the end of the day while on duty and it's raining and cold, it's autopilot. Xx

Oh. Dear. God.

It was probably an unconscious movement. Perhaps she heard a noise behind her? But the level of obsessive scrutiny that you are subjecting her to and then posting about it online, is just ridiculous.

Politely, she doesn’t actually have to shelter any children under her own umbrella, any more than she has to shelter them all under her own coat, or let them eat her own sandwiches. She could tell them all to stand in a line on the basis that they had appropriate coats on and then stand at a small distance from the line. That would be deemed fine and entirely professional. But she is probably a kind person who doesn’t want to see small children getting wet, so sheltered as many as she could. Or should she be obliged to carry an umbrella that would shelter 30 children? Let’s think about that a second…

I was previously a teacher and heard some pretty ludicrous complaints in my time, but this really takes the cake.

Yep. Next time there's a teacher bashing thread, that post needs resurrecting to show exactly what teachers are dealing with these days.

I'd just mention it to her on the quiet, I'd say I saw what happened you purposely moved away from her, and I don't care wether you have bonded with her or not but you do not treat her any differently from the other children, I will be watching closely to make sure this doesn't happen again and I may also pick her up early sometimes just to check things are going well.

My head teacher would have you in and speak to you about threatening his staff if you did that to one of our staff members.

A thread where someone’s child had received a sticker from the HT in morning assembly, it had become lost over the course of the school day, child was upset, parent wrote email to the school office asking for another sticker to be given and was told no, parent was outraged. About half the replies thought parent was bonkers to actually email the school about it and she should just help her child accept that stickers don’t last long and about half thought the school was being mean and it couldn’t be that hard to just replace the sticker.

Thanks @Katy232425! That's sounds totally normal these days!!! Honestly, some of the parents are harder to deal with than the children!

You are attaching meaning to the teachers actions. Just because she moved doesn't mean she did it to avoid your child.

A thread where someone’s child had received a sticker from the HT in morning assembly, it had become lost over the course of the school day, child was upset, parent wrote email to the school office asking for another sticker to be given and was told no, parent was outraged. About half the replies thought parent was bonkers to actually email the school about it and she should just help her child accept that stickers don’t last long and about half thought the school was being mean and it couldn’t be that hard to just replace the sticker.

What have I missed here?!

I think you have politely what my DS would call main character syndrome where you saw it and immediately made it about your DD and a deliberate act rather than the 90% far more realistic option it was a genuine oversight.

This!!!!!!!!

Are you ok? You’re talking absolute garbage.

😂 I really hope you are joking or don’t actually work in a school!

As a teacher, I have seen certain teachers have their favourites! It is sad but true and can influence their behaviour so horribly. I understand some children can be a pain in the backside but if you’re choosing a career in working with children- that’s a decision you made and if you can’t deal with them with a little extra patience when required then make another choice in your job! I get that sometimes certain children need additional reminders etc but when you see certain behaviours of teachers or the way they talk about particular children they dislike it irks me as a parent also.

I don’t believe the teacher did this out of spite (teacher myself) when the weather is that bad you really want all the children dismissed safely! Unless there have been other incidents with this specific teacher I wouldn’t think much of it. Though, as a mum I can understand your initial feelings at that point but it could have been nothing

Your daughter is 5... her teacher was acting less maturely.....

What a massive load of utter bollocks!

What!!??

I've never held an umbrella over anyone, adult or child. I must be a horrendous bully.

I'm trying to picture the scene here. 🤣🤣 The teacher twirled around fully ballerina style with an umbrella over her head!! 🤣🤣 All to avoid even a smidgen of its precious shelter gracing OP's DD.

OP should complain directly to the headteacher and also take it to Ofsted and the local press. Or for good measure, why not a sad face photo in the Daily Mail? 😁

This is all just so utterly ridiculous.

By 360 do you mean 180? 360 would mean she ended up where she started

You said I was wrong based on your assumption that teachers are bad. You assumed you were write based on illogical probability! Yeah so your assumptions weren't helpful at all which was what I was saying. Thanks for confirming your assumptions were not helpful.

So you assumed and now playing it down that you didn't assume. Yeah you did and assumed the least likely option.

So were you a teacher who did this then is that why you assumed it?