My son was hit on the head by the swimming instructor

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My son came home from school upset because when he went swimming with the school the swimming instructor whacked him on the head with 2 floaters.My son told me that he was stood by the pool and that the woman was telling the class off and then she whacked him and another child on the head.I have made a complaint to the leisure center about this person and also to the school.But the school seems to be not taking it seriously.I have said that if my son was naughty i dont have a problem with him being told off but the woman should not have hit him on the head.My son is only 8 years old.What should the school do in this situation ?

Mumbar - thread?? we need a whole new website with a initiation ceremony!! Genuine 'get a fucking grip'ers' only!!

Dueling - other sites make my head hurt. I don't understand the layout.

ha, we had a teacher at primary who used to fit the whole football team into his citroen Dolly for away matches.

Another at high school actually dangled a pupil out a second story window by the ankles - oh we did laugh!

We had a teacher who used to throw board-rubbers at people, and he once hauled a boy up from the ground by his ear.

dueling They'll manage not to notice most people here are telling OP to 'get a grip'

chipping To true. Its scary how often I agree with you here.

My ballet teacher threw bottles of water, a plant and keys at me ovr the years. And I was still crap at it.

ankle dangling teacher used to boast about his boat to the scoffs of his pupils (rough, working class types here) - came into school towing it behind his car next day. His wife, another teacher called Holy Mary used to love showing her pupils the 'real' nails used to nail jesus to the cross which she carried on her at al times. That was before the headmasters office was petrol bombed - ah, fun days! Honestly, kids have it sooo boring these days!

My children have never been hit by anything or had anything thrown at them. Clearly the school does not care enough about them.

I am thinking of complaining.

husky rugby players - makes them sound a bit butchfem, a bit dick emery.

or orm sending them to school 15/20 years ago

our cubs jumped on top of our new male leader the other day... i did that 'oo, not sure how to react to this' pause, wondered if he was going to get off the floor and assert himself, mouthed 'wtf?' to the other (female) leader present, and then shouted like a banshee to get their attention.

if only i'd had a foam football

he picked himself up off the floor in a faintly sheepish manner. the cubs were Very Good for about a minute and a half.

i wouldn't be a teacher for all the money in the world.

i don't think the cubs saw me mouthing the 'f' word - they had their heads down pummelling the new boy chap...

anyway, anyway, jolly ggod idea, whoeveritwas, op, just say to your ds 'that is totally outrageous darling - come with me - we will both make a FORMAL complaint AT ONCE! i will NOT have you humiliated like this in public. how DARE she beat you! let me call the other children's parents and get them to come with us!'

pound to a penny he blushes like a virgin as he knows it was a perfectly innocent 'oi, pay attention in my lesson, you little scrote' moment.

The GAGA would have a strong following

Honestly you lot are raising a bunch of wusses aren't you?

Really, Really? A whack on the head with a bit of foam upset an 8 year old boy? Really?

On the upside my kids should go through the world like a hot knife through warm butter if this is the competition.

Ha Ha you are all bully's too just like me.

I like the GAGA idea.

I'm sorry but if you are putting your child in a class for someone to teach, then you effectively hand over responsibility for your childs discipline to the teacher for the duration of the lesson, otherwise if we as parents are not around to do it, the whole lesson goes to pot and the kids run riot. And in a swimming pool that could be fatal, literally. You HAVE to keep order in a swimming lesson. If the teacher had meant to hurt the child, she would have dropped the float and given him a clip round the bloody earhole.
Its a piece of lightweight foam ffs, I fail to see how anyone could be hurt by one of those, other than tripping over it and impaling themselves on a screw driver for example.
OP if you are seriously concerned and not taking the piss, I suggest you go and observe a lesson, then if you think she is too strict, remove your child from her care. Do not under any circumstances question her methods or authority in front of the children, do it in private, you are more likely to get a positive response that way.

I think GAGA is good for perhaps under 10s.
After that it would need to evolve in to GAFGA... You know, for emphasis. Like the brownies and guides.

I am with you Morloth. I think my Dcs will thrive if the competition is children who are crushed by being called muppets.

The thing that annoys me is that it is so patronizing to children to suggest that they cannot cope with criticism or with affectionate teasing. Children are generally not dim unless their unreasonable sense of injustice and their child like tendency to wail "s'not fair!" is encouraged and nurtured. Children are brilliant. Underestimating them does them a huge disservice