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Disgusted by school’s response to complaint about pervy teacher - Final Update

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SophEll · 02/05/2025 13:08

Well, well, well. I’ve had a very lengthy and interesting phone call from the Headteacher (HT) handling my complaint.

I now consider the matter resolved, I’m sure you are wondering what was said and I’ve done my best to summarise below:

-My initial complaint WAS wrongly dismissed without investigation - as the comments made related to a school interaction.

-The HT has offered me an unreserved apology on behalf of the school for the handling of my initial complaint which I have gratefully accepted, as long as it’s also offered in writing (which I’m assured it will be).

-I’m told the Chair was most unimpressed to learn of my experience when complaining and an urgent review of their complaints procedure has been ordered. The HT tells me that they’ll ensure appropriate oversight is put in place moving forward and was extremely grateful for me bringing this to their attention.

-As previously noted, they cannot share the outcome of the investigation into my concerns about the interaction I had, which is perfectly understandable. Yes, I know he’ll get a slap on the wrist at best and should be suitably embarrassed, but that should be sufficient to prevent someone else going through what I did.

The term ‘tail between legs’ comes to mind for certain posters on here - I await your apologies with bated breath!

Thanks for those who’ve offered constructive suggestions on how to proceed, this outcome is a victory for anyone who has ever had a complaint wrongly dismissed.

I’ve also thanked my DH, whilst initially sceptical his support in emailing the Chair made all the difference. I have the utmost respect for how the Chair and HT handled this so promptly.

I feel as though I can now put the whole sorry saga behind me and move forward (I’ll probably give that bar a miss in the future mind you!)

I’ve told DH to put the champagne on ice!

OP posts:
ilovesooty · 04/05/2025 12:19

Waterweight · 04/05/2025 12:15

👏 👏 👏 you were so right to persue it. It made me sick just reading it & there was no way it's was completely fine & acceptable because it was "outside school hours"

He's a cunt.

People didn't say it was fine and acceptable. It was nothing to do with the school and the OP has quite rightly been politely fobbed off.

cardibach · 04/05/2025 12:19

Waterweight · 04/05/2025 12:15

👏 👏 👏 you were so right to persue it. It made me sick just reading it & there was no way it's was completely fine & acceptable because it was "outside school hours"

He's a cunt.

hes Vile. It’s not acceptable. Everyone has said that.
However OP was wrong to pursue a complaint the way she has, and there’s no point in the applause anyway because she hast achieved anything except to waste someone’s valuable time in fobbing her off.
As has been said repeatedly on all 3 threads.

Waterweight · 04/05/2025 12:15

SophEll · 02/05/2025 13:08

Well, well, well. I’ve had a very lengthy and interesting phone call from the Headteacher (HT) handling my complaint.

I now consider the matter resolved, I’m sure you are wondering what was said and I’ve done my best to summarise below:

-My initial complaint WAS wrongly dismissed without investigation - as the comments made related to a school interaction.

-The HT has offered me an unreserved apology on behalf of the school for the handling of my initial complaint which I have gratefully accepted, as long as it’s also offered in writing (which I’m assured it will be).

-I’m told the Chair was most unimpressed to learn of my experience when complaining and an urgent review of their complaints procedure has been ordered. The HT tells me that they’ll ensure appropriate oversight is put in place moving forward and was extremely grateful for me bringing this to their attention.

-As previously noted, they cannot share the outcome of the investigation into my concerns about the interaction I had, which is perfectly understandable. Yes, I know he’ll get a slap on the wrist at best and should be suitably embarrassed, but that should be sufficient to prevent someone else going through what I did.

The term ‘tail between legs’ comes to mind for certain posters on here - I await your apologies with bated breath!

Thanks for those who’ve offered constructive suggestions on how to proceed, this outcome is a victory for anyone who has ever had a complaint wrongly dismissed.

I’ve also thanked my DH, whilst initially sceptical his support in emailing the Chair made all the difference. I have the utmost respect for how the Chair and HT handled this so promptly.

I feel as though I can now put the whole sorry saga behind me and move forward (I’ll probably give that bar a miss in the future mind you!)

I’ve told DH to put the champagne on ice!

👏 👏 👏 you were so right to persue it. It made me sick just reading it & there was no way it's was completely fine & acceptable because it was "outside school hours"

He's a cunt.

iseethembloom · 04/05/2025 11:59

Hoppinggreen · 02/05/2025 13:31

I feel we should set in in The South, we wouldn't entertain such nonsense up here.
Should it be set up here it would go
"eey Lass, tha's reet hot, would love t' tup thee"
"bugger off or al tell tha boss"
"ahhm off"
END OF

Your dialogue is wonderful!

FrazzledMCPremenopausalWoman · 04/05/2025 10:35

centralcasting · 02/05/2025 15:03

or James Nesbitt

You beat me to it!

Cherrytree86 · 04/05/2025 10:01

You’re so gullible and easily pleased OP @SophEll

WigglywagglyWanda · 04/05/2025 09:39

iseethembloom · 04/05/2025 09:23

@Tandora

op was gunning - literally all guns blazing - to get authorities to pay attention to her. She needed someone to make her feel special, to maje her feel validated.

choosing a school she has no connection to was a soft target. Low hanging fruit.

people think schools and teachers are public property and this p1sses me right off. Stupid people who have no life just love phoning schools, trying to create trouble, with their own insignificant issues. And yes, before you ask, I consider that this was a trivial matter.

in the end, it had little to do with his sleazy ill-advised line, which she could and should have dealt with in the moment. It was all about her, wanting to be the focus of attention and drama.

Yep and the what she had been put through bollox😁

iseethembloom · 04/05/2025 09:23

@Tandora

op was gunning - literally all guns blazing - to get authorities to pay attention to her. She needed someone to make her feel special, to maje her feel validated.

choosing a school she has no connection to was a soft target. Low hanging fruit.

people think schools and teachers are public property and this p1sses me right off. Stupid people who have no life just love phoning schools, trying to create trouble, with their own insignificant issues. And yes, before you ask, I consider that this was a trivial matter.

in the end, it had little to do with his sleazy ill-advised line, which she could and should have dealt with in the moment. It was all about her, wanting to be the focus of attention and drama.

WigglywagglyWanda · 04/05/2025 08:54

Tandora · 04/05/2025 00:48

But people had been so rude and awful to her for three threads straight? I feel like anyone would get wound up. People react differently, but OP’s response in my view was definitely of the normal/ human spectrum

Ah OK

So she read all the dark stuff. People talking about abuse and experiences
they had, some of then quite graohic, and rather than post on the thread already there, she started a new one with champagne celebrations and so on.

That's on the normal human spectrum for you.

Thankfully not for me.

fattytoadboy · 04/05/2025 08:41

Tandora · 04/05/2025 01:09

after the harm her posts have done

see that’s just an example of the craziness that OP is understandably reacting to 🤷🏼‍♀️

There is a very eloquent post about 5 posts down explaining why it’s been damaging to some people.

I haven’t personally been affected by OP’s posts beyond thinking she sounds like a massive twat but I can see how people who have experienced abuse and were sharing their experiences could have been triggered by her turning the whole thing into a massive joke with the champers and roleplay. Really grim behaviour.

HuffleMyPuffle · 04/05/2025 01:11

Tandora · 04/05/2025 01:09

after the harm her posts have done

see that’s just an example of the craziness that OP is understandably reacting to 🤷🏼‍♀️

You are chosing to ignore the poster not so many posts above talking about the harm OP's posts have done to her then?

Nice to see some sympathy

Tandora · 04/05/2025 01:09

HuffleMyPuffle · 04/05/2025 01:07

She's been pretty awful and her joking around is just disgusting after the harm her posts have done

after the harm her posts have done

see that’s just an example of the craziness that OP is understandably reacting to 🤷🏼‍♀️

HuffleMyPuffle · 04/05/2025 01:07

Tandora · 04/05/2025 00:48

But people had been so rude and awful to her for three threads straight? I feel like anyone would get wound up. People react differently, but OP’s response in my view was definitely of the normal/ human spectrum

She's been pretty awful and her joking around is just disgusting after the harm her posts have done

Tandora · 04/05/2025 00:48

CellophaneFlower · 04/05/2025 00:41

Have you actually read all OP's posts? 'She' practically became a pantomime dame by the end.

But people had been so rude and awful to her for three threads straight? I feel like anyone would get wound up. People react differently, but OP’s response in my view was definitely of the normal/ human spectrum

CellophaneFlower · 04/05/2025 00:41

Tandora · 03/05/2025 19:44

I don’t get why you are all so convinced this is fake? Surely it would be deleted if so? I thought troll hunting was against guidelines?

Have you actually read all OP's posts? 'She' practically became a pantomime dame by the end.

WigglywagglyWanda · 03/05/2025 20:07

Tandora · 03/05/2025 19:44

I don’t get why you are all so convinced this is fake? Surely it would be deleted if so? I thought troll hunting was against guidelines?

I'm certainly not troll hunting.

But I've already posted on this last night. Youve quoted me here and asked I'll do so again.

The second thread here contained some very dark conversation where it was being bandied about that teachers behaviour was compared to sexual assault, schoolgirls were brought into it. Rape and pedophilia for goodness sake. A number of posters who had actually experienced these things were getting emotional, it got hot and heavy. I and many others were NOT defending him, we said he was a sleezy fucker and i personally would have told him to fuck right off. .

OP wades in with her champers and celebrating yesterday morning. It was painfully obvious to anyone with a titter of wit that a third thread was neither needed nor appropriate.

And it was also painfully obvious it was shite. Lots of Governors on saying nothing would be able to be investigated in 36 hours and if it was true then it was a placating letter.

Op posts frequently through the day, clearly on a wind up getting more and more vulgar....bit of a slap in the face to those who had so far taken the situation seriously and had posted with their true feelings, whether they agreed with her or not, they were posting some heavy stuff to them

So do forgive me when I see OP openly taking the piss out of me and others yesterday that I think what the fuck.

Sorry for the stream of consciousness, long and repeating what I have already said before but you did ask!

Tandora · 03/05/2025 19:44

WigglywagglyWanda · 03/05/2025 18:32

Oh PLEASE
If you've read through the whole thing you'll see him getting called a sleazy dick and a lot worse.

It was blatantly obvious it was a load of made up shite so yesterday most just had fun.

Edited

I don’t get why you are all so convinced this is fake? Surely it would be deleted if so? I thought troll hunting was against guidelines?

HuffleMyPuffle · 03/05/2025 19:44

Tandora · 03/05/2025 17:31

We've experienced how easy it is for a man to be wrongly labelled a paedophile and rape has been minimalised throughout this thread.

oh please. The vast majority of posters on all three threads have been falling over backwards to defend this man and his casual misogyny.
Meanwhile the way people have reacted to OP….

It doesn't matter what the majority did, a few dangerous individuals made these leaps and that's a problem and highlights how these things can exaggerate

Calliopespa · 03/05/2025 18:46

Muffinmam · 02/05/2025 14:19

I went back to your original post where you were told in no unreasonable terms to get over yourself and not to damage this guy’s career.

Yet you persevered and escalated your complaint.

This had nothing to do with your child - this teacher flirted on you on a night out. A mitigating factor is he was drunk. Obviously, you’re not used to being hit on.

You were told by the head teacher that this wasn’t a school issue.

You believed you were in the right and you pushed the issue and now you are giddy with excitement that you have gotten this teacher into trouble.

I need to express how pathetic you are. Your behaviour by pushing this issue with this guys employer was to continue the narrative that you’re so attractive he couldn’t help but be creepy towards you. It’s one thing to be angry at the behaviour but it’s another thing to react with positive joy at the prospect you’ve interfered with a person’s career.

Pathetic.

It does come across as though if she hadn’t t made the complaint, not enough people would have heard about it for her liking.

Her DH sounds long-suffering. If someone had hit on my DH and he’d felt so amazed by it that he had to get maximum mileage in this way I’d felt a bit 😬 and wonder why he couldn’t just move on.

Couldn’t you have just told him to get lost op?

The reason people would normally complain is to stop it repeating in their workplace/ a professional situation. But that wasn’t an issue here.

You sound either vindictive or overly delighted by it.

WigglywagglyWanda · 03/05/2025 18:43

iseethembloom · 03/05/2025 18:37

This post was one of her most bonkers, and one of the most narcissistic things I’ve ever seen here.

Oh there were some corkers.

So upset was OP at the vulgar language she had to 'go through ' 'she' proceeded to tell us that us old bags would never be propositioned.......that she would have ate him alive, that 'her' and her hubby were having a bit of roleplay and she/he was sore this morning

So I think we can safely say she/he was having fun from the beginning, and wasn't happy when a merry band had some real laughs yesterday

Part 3 was pure class

iseethembloom · 03/05/2025 18:40

iseethembloom · 03/05/2025 18:37

This post was one of her most bonkers, and one of the most narcissistic things I’ve ever seen here.

On a par with “a lot of the old bags on here could not hope to be propositioned on a night out”

Madness 🤪

iseethembloom · 03/05/2025 18:37

SophEll · 02/05/2025 13:16

For anyone unsure on the voting:

YABU - the school should have responded more strongly.

YANBU - it’s a reasonable outcome.

This post was one of her most bonkers, and one of the most narcissistic things I’ve ever seen here.

WigglywagglyWanda · 03/05/2025 18:37

iseethembloom · 03/05/2025 18:30

Agreed. In the end, it had little to do with him. We saw this when, after being fobbed off by the school, she gloated and attempted to show off with tales of champagne and role play.

This is someone who, besides not knowing that the second participle of ‘eat’ is ‘eaten’ (“I’d have ate him alive”) is possibly not that bright, and has little power or agency in her life. She was desperate to feel she could exert some kind of power. People often behave like this when they feel overlooked or disenfranchised.

If it indeed it was a woman🤣

CellophaneFlower · 03/05/2025 18:33

Tandora · 03/05/2025 17:31

We've experienced how easy it is for a man to be wrongly labelled a paedophile and rape has been minimalised throughout this thread.

oh please. The vast majority of posters on all three threads have been falling over backwards to defend this man and his casual misogyny.
Meanwhile the way people have reacted to OP….

Nobody has defended this fictional man's comments. His lewdness rapidly became overshadowed by OP's vulgarness though.

WigglywagglyWanda · 03/05/2025 18:32

Tandora · 03/05/2025 17:31

We've experienced how easy it is for a man to be wrongly labelled a paedophile and rape has been minimalised throughout this thread.

oh please. The vast majority of posters on all three threads have been falling over backwards to defend this man and his casual misogyny.
Meanwhile the way people have reacted to OP….

Oh PLEASE
If you've read through the whole thing you'll see him getting called a sleazy dick and a lot worse.

It was blatantly obvious it was a load of made up shite so yesterday most just had fun.