Dd (9) is well behaved at school and preforming above targets. Quietly gets on with everything and never complains so is often forgotten about at school.
This year in particular she has been repeatedly used often under the guise of her being so kind and helpful to her expense.
Child who chats too much in lessons, gets moved next to dd. Bully who now doesn’t have any friends, put in dds group. Child who doesn’t do any work, gets paired with dd for partner project so she does it all on her own. Bullied child, dd gets taken off to play with them. Child sat on friendship bench, gets pointed out to dd. New child gets paired with dd then 3 months later new child who doesn’t speak English fluently again gets paired with dd who has to help translate for them while trying doing her own work. Need volunteers to stay in at break and help tidy/set up, ask dd. Someone has to have the old scribbled on book because they didn’t have enough new ones, give it to dd. You get the picture…
She was recently appointed cloakroom monitor, a role that she didn’t want or ask for.
Today a couple of known naughty kids were messing around in the cloakroom, going through someone else’s bag. They were being loud and nasty so dd pretended not to look at them. Another kid saw and told the teacher. Teacher asked dd if anything happened and she lied and said no.
She’s now got to miss 15 minutes of golden time friday along with the kids who actually did the messing around. She got a big speech from her teacher about how disappointed she is in her and how she expected better from her, the naughty kids no doubt didn’t get this speech.
Only time she’s ever been given a punishment through school and she’s completely devastated.
Obviously she’s shouldn’t have lied but being appointed class snitch is hard for an 9 year old.
I’m not being unreasonable to think this is absolutely unfair and her teacher is again taking advantage of her, am I? Surely never before causing any issue should count for something and she’s deserves a bit of understanding ?
I don’t want to to send her in Friday but dd wouldn’t want to do that but I can’t wait for this year to be over.