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AIBU?

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Wanting to get this teacher fired

690 replies

lividbeyondbelief · 19/02/2011 23:08

My dd attends a language class on saturday mornings in central london. This week due to horrible traffic we were 30 minutes late to collect her. We tried texting her teacher to say we were stuck in traffic but never got a reply. Anyway to make a long story short - she left my dd outside the school, alone with another boy, whilst she went out to go buy lunch. To make matters worse she told her to lie to us and say she was in the room next door if we asked where the teacher was when we collected our dd.

Our daughter was really upset and cried whilst being outside alone with this boy. My dh noticed she had been crying but the teacher just dismissed it, saying to dh she cried because he was late.

Obviously the bond of trust is broken and she wont be going back ever again. My question is what else should we do?

OP posts:
frasersmummy · 21/02/2011 11:38

I am still wondering what culture doesnt care if you are 30 mins late

Violethill · 21/02/2011 11:55

Clearly the one that expects other people to be telepathic and know where u are without phoning them, and then wants u fired!

Laquitar · 21/02/2011 12:53

Why this thread has 603 posts and so much anger and sarcasm?
There have been so many worse threads here about teachers spelling etc but not so much anger towards OP, what is it about this thread? Confused

hocuspontas · 21/02/2011 13:01

Because we veer from being appalled that the teacher is 2 streets away getting lunch and leaving a 2/3 year old on a busy street for half an hour alone to being slightly Hmm that two 7 year olds are waiting in a school playground for their parents who are half an hour late without so much as a phone call. People keep getting the story slightly wrong so it is quite exciting to see what is surmised next Grin

Violethill · 21/02/2011 13:07

Read the brilliant post by Bathsheba - that sums the thread up Grin

sleeplessinseatle · 21/02/2011 13:08

They left a child who was 2/3rd of a year old on a busy street? 8 months old? OMG! No wonder this topic is 605 messages long Smile

gapbear · 21/02/2011 13:16

rofl @ sleepless...

Laquitar · 21/02/2011 13:18

Ok i 've read it and i mostly agree but it is not the first thread that is like this. And nobody said 'maybe op had tough day, maybe op is depressed, maybe its all her dh's fault' Grin.

Lets be nice and wait for op to tell us if they spoke to someone today Wink

GwendolineMaryLacey · 21/02/2011 13:24

Bathsheba, I love you! This thread is driving me mad.

Where is this hellish zone 2 place anyway? Archway? Hackney? Lewisham? Battersea? Kilburn?

So many places... I'm looking for a nice coffee shop near work to go to at lunchtime. Don't suppose you're talking about the Elephant? Lots of estates there and a nice big road and lethal roundabout

SarahStrattonHasNiceBears · 21/02/2011 14:28

Oh thank God someone agrees with me. It's line a magnet this thread. Half of me wants to jump up and down pointing out all the bullshit discrepancies, and the other half is torn between being amazed that so many still believe the OP and hiding the thread so it can't wind me up anymore.

I'm convinced this is some sort of elaborate, boring, yet oddly compelling, wind up.

flippinpeedoff · 21/02/2011 15:21

since when was central london zone 2?

Yep, this a wind up

marcopront · 21/02/2011 15:51

I want to know where you can do a two minute journey by car from a car park to a housing estate and be on a three or four lane road. (Personally if I had sat there for half an hour I would know exactly how many lanes there were but I can accept that is just me)

Also if the journey that normally takes two minutes took half an hour the traffic must have been stationary and wouldn't you have known before you joined it, that there was a problem and so decided to walk instead.

Wook · 21/02/2011 16:00

So, has the OP complained and asked for the teacher to be sacked today, or not?

Violethill · 21/02/2011 16:19

Yeap, apparently!

My guess is OP will either come back with a tale of how the tutor was sacked on the spot, banned from ever being within a 5 mile radius of children ever again and told to take a packed lunch with her wherever she goes just in case. Oh and the OP will have received a hand written letter of apology from the Consulate and will be awarded £10 million damages.

Or possibly, she won't come back! Grin

gapbear · 21/02/2011 16:25

My money's on the sacking and £10 million in damages, and a further revelation that the tutor also wore socks with sandals Shock

Bathsheba · 21/02/2011 16:46
cocoachannel · 21/02/2011 16:49

I've followed this thread over the weekend and resisted commenting so far but two things are irritating so much I gave to say...

  1. I feel very sorry for this young tutor who has had her character and childcare skills pulled apart based on the words of a child, hours after the alleged event.

  2. the implication that zone 2 of London is somehow the ghetto in some of the OP and others' posts. I live in zone 2 and it's lovely, thank you very much. We even have half a dozen very inviting coffee shops Shock

I would also like to applaud Violethill and others for sticking by their guns in the face of accusations of bullying, when they were simply responding to the OP's own question, albeit asked some time ago, posing the dilemma, 'AIBU...'

belgo · 21/02/2011 16:52

I don't really get this. It was a two minute car drive, five minute walk, but took 30 minutes due to traffic, but you couldn't stop because there was nowhere to park? Why didn't your dh walk in the first place and not take the car at all?

Do you really use the car for such short journeys in heavy London traffic?

AuntBeast · 21/02/2011 16:53

If the op's disabled, I'm surpised she doesn't have a Blue Badge. Then the dh could have pulled over anywhere, couldn't he?

pinklaydee · 21/02/2011 17:12

YABU

VeryStressedMum · 21/02/2011 17:20

I don't think she's disabled just that she has health problems that make walking impossible. Well, I assume she's not disabled because if she was she would have just said (I assume). Lot of assumptions.

herbietea · 21/02/2011 18:45

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SarahStrattonHasNiceBears · 21/02/2011 19:26

No Bathsheba, you are just braver than me. I will hold your hand and we will go down in flames together [bravery emoticon]

Bathsheba · 21/02/2011 19:39

Come on then Toots....lets jump...

Its all a bit Thelma and Louise...

alicatte · 21/02/2011 19:39

I work in a 'centre' for a subject (not English) on Saturdays and I have seen this 'being late' quite a lot. One poor teacher was left every day with a group of three girls whilst their parents were habitually late because their other children did not start classes for another quarter of an hour so they did not arrive until then.

Eventually the teacher took to leaving the children in the room to 'practise' with the door open so she could go to the bathroom and collect a drink from the floor below. The desk was close by and the children would have been seen had they left the room unaccompanied.

Yet eventually one parent (a 'known' one who has frequently complained in the past) arrived slightly early one day and became incandescent - despite having been reminded again and again of the time that her daughter's class ended.

I was speechless, terribly polite but ... speechless. The attitude was just unbelievable.