School gate fights between parents

[Hattifnatt88]

I've been speaking to some friends of mine in a facebook group with people around England. (not just "online friends").

It seems quite a lot of them have seen actual physical fights and arguments between mothers? In one case, the police were called!

Is this common place? I'm new to this, and not seen it in my son's school.

No but amazed at the stories on this thread

I live next door to a school and a church. I've seen alsorts, most memorable being to old ladies in their 70s at least beating each other up with their handbags at a funeral.........think the blokes mistress has turned up.

Caterwauling at the school gates I hear a couple of times a year, the police have been called at least once in the 20 years I've lived here.

This is a Roman Catholic school (( attached to the church )) I expect better under the eyes of God. 😂😂😂

I don't have to justify myself to nobody why I don't want my child mixing with scum

There’s a thread about this exact thing going on right now:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/a3565993-To-be-pissed-off-with-the-school-and-wonder-where-I-go-from-here?msgid=86502848#86502848

Your own child still has to grow up and make their own mistakes yet, Honey. You don't know what's in store for him/her. You'll probably say. That'll never happen to my child. He/she'll will be a CEO of a company, but in reality no one can guarantee that. The children who you're calling scum could grow up to airline pilots, Top surgeons/Teachers/Bank Managers, and your child could end up as well to use your words "scum". Who's to say that's not going to happen.

Never seen this at DS’s school but can’t imagine it’s that uncommon at the school near the council estate the next town over.

No Snob. Live on said estate, was brought up on another estate but all the scumbags moved here and just act like that SCUM. Druggys and drunks. So if I would rather my children to attend a better school and mix with nice children with nice parents then that's my choice.

It's hard to admit but I think a vast majority of us would make the same choice for our DC. When you're not in Honey's situation, it's really easy to pass comment when in fact, we have no idea what her kids may need to deal with where they live.

A mother going in and punching one of the teachers happened in my mc school when I was at school.
Never seen it as a parent thank goodness.

Oh dear honey, I do hope your child will be learning grammar from school and not you.

“I don’t have to justify myself to nobody” 😂😂😂😂.

I’ve worked with several schools and to date have never witnessed any fighting ...not even in the “typical estate school”. It was known in the “typical estate school” that X’s” Mum didn’t get on with “Y’s” Mum and that they would studiously ignore one another in the playground but we never saw any fighting...can’t speak for what occurred or not off school grounds though, and even in the “typical estate school” the Mums with addiction problems were rare which is why I know “honey” is talking out of her arse.

On the other hand I met the child of a gangster who’d been shot dead in a gangland hit....that of course was in a leafy school. People are people and you get good and bad in all.

There was a brilliant fight at the school I work at a few years ago. Bloke’s new GF and ex-wife both had kids at the school. It started with verbal insults over a few weeks and ended with them holding on the hoods of each other’s coats and spinning around in a circle, randomly kicking out at each other. Nobody actually got hurt and I felt sorry for the kids involved but Head and I were in hysterics after it was all sorted trying to write out a report of what had happened.

I went to do supply at a city centre school which is highly saught after. There was a police officer on the gate as I went in. Asked another staff member about it and she told me it was because the parents had had physical fights and a number were awaiting court appearances after assaulting other parents. Turned out some of the parents were threatening each other because their children had fallen out the day before it resulted in parents confronting each other the next morning and physical altercations taking place. The head was banning numerous parents from the school grounds and the police were fed up being called to the playground that an officer was on the gate daily!

Haha! Oh dearie me honey you’re as common as muck and sneering at others. I knew it. That response tells me all I need to know about you,

Do you kiss your child with that mouth?

Maybe your child is doing well at the “naice” school but you’d fit right in at the “typical estate school” dearie.

No....don’t bother with any further responses. You’ve summed yourself up PERFECTLY and shown everyone on the thread exactly what you are.

Bye bye,

As have you DeloresJaneUmbridge.

The irony of the mud slinging on a thread about parents fighting in the playground!

Aww sorry, Hun.
Are You okay. Xxx

What a weird turn of events

Netmums is shite, btw.

Only row I've ever witnessed at school is very sadly my 2 cousins. They are sisters and all three of us have kids at the same school. They fell out years ago (they just completely ignore each other now) but they had a stand up screaming / pushing match in the playground when they first fell out

Yep definitely mediums for honeybee, with the huns and glitter and boss babes.

NETMUMS

I've been fortunate never to have witnessed anything like this. And DS's first school was in an area notorious for drug use etc. It was the local school.
All I can say is the the other parents I met were perfectly fine. If there were disagreements I didn't see them thankfully.

Not common place, but most definitely common.

Never seen it.