to think parents in my child's class may treat me and DS differently

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because I am a teacher in the school?

Pondering sending DS's to my school and moving into the village.

Any thoughts?

Your child might get invited on more playdates

seriously -- he might

My mum taught me and it was never a problem. She said the only way she felt the parents treated her/me differently was that at my birthday parties I got given quite decent presents compared to some of the tat we saw being given at other kids parties! Lol. So that definitely didn't bother me at all!

My mum says the hardest part about being at a school with her own kids in was the day when she was walking down the corridor and saw my then 6 year old brother crying outside his classroom being told off by his class teacher. Of course my mum wanted to go over and find out what was happeneing but she had to tell herself that no other child had a mum there to step in when they were in trouble, so she just had to keep walking (and ask about it later in the staff room!). She also felt that when I was in her class she had to be stricter with me than any of the other kids so that I could never be bullied for being 'teacher's pet' or anything, and she says she felt bad that in class assemblies etc she could never give me a very big role in case the parents watching felt it was unfair. I always enjoyed having her there. I don't think I would have liked having a parent in secondary school though. In mine the most hated teacher in the school sent his daughter to it. I felt really sorry for her! She was a bit of a cow actually, but think she had to develop a thick skin pretty quickly as I'm sure she must have got comments about her dad.

I teach at a school with less than 50 children. There are 2 classes, one with Y4-6 in it and one with everyone else.

I decided not to have DS2 (age 10) becuase he would have been taught by me for 2 years and would never have the chance to get away from me - he is a good boy and academic but a huge chatterbox.

I'm not sending ds3 there when he starts either, it is a good school but I think my kids need the chance to be their own person.

Their dad teaches at the secondary school ds1 is at which has gone ok so far.

I have seen it work though for other kids in other (bigger) schools.

DH and I work at a huge international school. All the teachers children come to our school and it is never a problem. We do try to stay out of the same year groups, but some parents have chosen to teach their own children.

Dh is a teacher and DD has alwasy attended his school. We are a different case though, we are overseas.
He is adamant that he doesn't want her to be a pupil at any school he teaches at for secondary. His mother was a teacher and at the same school as his sister's. she was a class one cunt though and that reflected on the friendships of his sisters.
He is not, I should add a cunt.

I live in Italy and teach on a school project in lots of different school. I generally turn down the contract in my kids school simply because it quite a difficult balance to keep.

I did once teach full time in a school here and the school keep pressurizing me to put my kids there. They were very religious and wanted my kids to keep me tied to the school. When it became apparent I had no intention of sending them there they didn't renew my contract. I was happy because it gave me an easy out of the school.

I actually think there should be a ruling against it. And no way should a mother/father be allowed to have their own child in their class.

No matter how you look at it, your child is different from the others by definition of your presence. Some will find it an advantage, some will find it a disadvantage, but they will not be treated exactly like the others. They can't be. Even if it's just that your child has been a little swine and the teacher stops you in the corridor to tell you, and you then take Junior home and lock him under the stairs...maybe if Junior's Mum hadn't been in the same school she wouldn't have found out, or certainly not in that way....

He may not be treated better, or worse, but he will be treated differently. Even if it isn't overtly done.

I have just started a new class of 11 yr olds. It's a special project in the afternoons and supposedly, the children who are showing real promise in English get to be entered in a draw to do this thing (it's funded by the EU) My first lesson, great kids, all happy and motivated, except one. Sulky and disruptive all lesson, did badly in the pre-course test we are obliged to give them, and I'm thinking "why on earth is he here?". Because he's the English teacher's son of course.

In the new group I've got tomorrow, there is my partner's nephew. I'm not happy even about that. They asked me if I wanted him excluded from the project this year, but how could I say no? That would be punishing him for his connections. But I really would be happier if he weren't there, and tbh, I bet he would too.