To think this was really spiteful

Many long standing teachers have left now- and universities are having to take pgce students who would not have been given a place a few years ago.

@Stopbeingsomean you come across as someone who is not happy with other TAs or teachers, so perhaps that's what I mean by Peter Perfect. @JSMill Scottish teachers actually can't get on the PG course unless they have Maths and English qualifications at Higher, or Nat 5 if they have enough additional qualifications.
Teaching is a profession, it has specific skills and knowledge and requires a huge investment in ITE. That's a 4 year honours degree here or 4 years and a postgrad, with a year's probation. No TA or classroom assistant can match that and your snotty gripes about grammar show how little you understand about learning. It's possible to become a professor with dyslexia.
The TA you are referring to has probably been employed to fill a gap, cheaply. Anyone working with children should be supervised and monitored to ensure they don't act in petty ways over silly things like stickers. To be honest it says so much more about the school and the management if they are happy to abandon children to this kind of outdated attitude- there should be a consistent behaviour policy which is monitored and you should all be working as a team to make sure this happens.
It's not the" fault" of any one person in a school - the whole team needs to work together.

Jeez. What an arse of a person that TA must be

Also @JSMill you say:
People look down their noses at TAs but often they are highly educated people who can only afford to do the job because of their dh's income (I live in an affluent area of the south east)

The bit in brackets is extremely significant. In most of the country, TAs aren't often highly educated, though a few might be. In most areas, TAs are mums from the school's local area, looking for term time work, or those with few qualifications to get a better paid job.

I valued my TAs hugely. I worked in special ed, so usually had a team of three or four in my class, and I couldn't have managed without them. Few were well educated, because my school was in a deprived area, but that wasn't the priority for us. One of my favourite TAs had major literacy issues, but she also had fantastic empathy for the children and eyes in the back of her head. My teams and I always worked really harmoniously, and now that I'm retired, it's my TA colleagues that I keep in touch with, not my fellow teachers.

But even those lovely people didn't really know what was behind how we filled our day. The planning, the assessment, the training that was behind the information and the instructions that I gave to them. And that would be the same in a mainstream school really.

I too was sometimes shocked at the literacy level of some of my younger teaching colleagues. But a lot of TAs who thought they could teach better than the teacher, would founder after a few weeks, simply because of the level of planning and assessment and resourcing that they don't have the training and experience in.

Teachers need English and Maths good passes at GCSE. OP was expressing surprise that primary teachers don't have those subjects at A level!

Re "I work with a fantastic teacher this year and we have a great relationship.", have you discussed this problem TA with the teacher? She'll probably have more sway with management than you do.

I would report that to the head. It is incredibly spiteful. It takes me back to a TA when DC were at school. She was an awful bully. It was reported. She disappeared so I think it was a bigger issue than we all even knew.

Ok, so this really upset me on so many levels it's unreal (I'll try not ramble on) to cut a couple of long stories short I still remember the first primary school I went to and my dad coming for parents evening aged 5 and being told by the reception teacher that I would 'never amount to anything' well I proved her wrong but these words along with constantly being targeted by this teacher and others did have a lasting effect on me growing up and at times still does to this day, this was in the 90's and the fave one for me for getting a question wrong was to stick a cone shaped paper hat on my head with a D on it and being made to stand facing the corner of the wall, it was soul destroying.. I wasnt naughty or outspoken infact I was quite the opposite!

My next point is I was training to be a TA myself (years ago) and I was on a college placement at a primary school, there was a child who was being assessed for various needs and she struggled with her learning, I remember walking into the storage cupboard to gather some supplies for my group activity with the kids and walked in on the poor girls class teacher taking the absolute piss out of this child to another teacher and they found it hilarious, I was mortified, I said nothing to the teacher, went and reported it to the head and never went back to that school as I didn't want to be in such a toxic environment!

Im also mum of two SEND kids who have all these small groups /interventions , my youngest daughters school is amazing and go above and beyond for her. my eldests (13) school is a total different story it feels that as shes not bringing much to the school results being boosted then she can sail down the river.

Op I really think you should be taking this higher if no one in the school is listening or cares. This as others have said could impact a childs life through to adult years.
I worked in supported living and me and a colleague had no choice but to whistle blow to outside agencies after getting no where in the company, did we get shit off the management, course we did! but we didn't care because we knew we had done right by the vulnerable people we were there to protect and I'd do the same all over again.

Shes treating these kids like absolute shit like their worth nothing and as for the one putting her feet on the kids!!! just wow!!! Did you report this too? Please don't let these women ruin these kids. You sound like you care very much about these kids so you need to take urgent action, not solely about the sticker incident its the bigger picture of attitudes and behaviours that are majorly concerning. Sorry for the long post I tired to make it as short as possible!!

Somebody's on a pathetic little power trip!

@Stopbeingsomean the TA's name doesn't start with A does it? This sounds awfully like a TA I happen to work with!

I know what you mean. It doesn't take much to pass English and Maths at GCSE level. People look down their noses at TAs but often they are highly educated people who can only afford to do the job because of their dh's income (I live in an affluent area of the south east). I have a first class degree in history and a masters degree. It winds me up how often I have seen teachers get things wrong and they get the last word because they are the qualified teacher. Then again, I am the one too chicken to go for a PGCE!!

You need passes in maths and English at GCSE level. I know where you are coming from. I have worked with some teachers with quite shocking levels of not just English but general knowledge. You would think education attracts people with a thirst for learning and knowledge and then you encounter teachers who have an astonishing lack of knowledge about the world. A lot of them just read off scripts from lesson plans they have downloaded from the internet without knowing anything about the actual subject.

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What are you talking about? Teachers in England need to show proficiency in English and Maths when applying for a PGCE or B.Ed and have a two year ECT period.

That is horrible! The correct response would be something along the lines of 'you are! but we usually dont ask for them, but wait to see if we get one given, so try to remember that in future. Now, lets get you that sticker!'

Another TA with a power complex

Omg just give the poor kid a fucking sticker. That's awful, the poor little mite.

@Stopbeingsomean hi, go back and read what she said. It was so long winded I’m actually surprised you managed to remember all of it let alone a child understand all of it.