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AIBU?

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To think some teachers are getting away with all sorts with no way of challenging them??

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RedEyePen · 18/06/2025 17:58

Mainly SLT! So today my ‘high needs’ son who the school tried to off roll had a head bump. On the way back from A and E I bumped into the Head getting her weekly shop in the supermarket. During school time. She didn’t seem stressed at all! Just getting her shopping in. V happy to interrogate my son as to why he wasn’t in school. Head and non teaching SENCO are always in the playground chatting every morning, yet can’t do any of my son’s paperwork without - at worst - an 8 months delay because they are ‘snowed under’.
I also work in a school where planning meetings, courses, computer based admin trumps : actually attending to the children’s needs.
AIBU??

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MemorableTrenchcoat · 18/06/2025 18:16

Yay, another teacher-bashing thread.

RedEyePen · 18/06/2025 18:14

@RhaenysRocks

I’ve seen her browsing in there before during school time. She doesn’t have children. The high needs point is relevant because they say they can’t meet lawful regulation requirements because they are too busy. I do have an issue with the school.

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RhaenysRocks · 18/06/2025 18:06

Maybe she's snatching a quick 40 mins now because she has a parent comping in later, at their convenience and will still need to run that errands before her own child's nursery closes at six. Clearly you have an issue with this school. Your sons high needs are irrelevant to the point you are making and your snipe that meetings etc take priority over childrens' needs suggest you don't understand what it takes to keep a school running and meet all the requirements and standards. We'd all love to bin off a load of pointless admin but teachers have to operate in the system they are handed by successive, statistics and evidence obsessed governments. I highly doubt there are kids in crisis in a corridor outside a meeting while a teacher flips through paperwork. 🙄

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