Wanting to get this teacher fired

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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?

threefeet it's the demands to have someone sacked that are making everyone go

The OP needs a wake-up call and quick. People are asking questions of her that are not being answered, ie an AIBU by stealth.

Was it literally on the street OP or in a playground?

Getting her fired is a bit much but I totally understand your annoyance.

However many twists and turns your story takes (and I am still a bit sceptical that the nearest outlet to buy food would be two streets away in Central London, or that you had to drive so far away to get a coffee!) I hope you're getting the message loud and clear that you are being VVVVV unreasonable. You are failing to take any responsibility for this situation which is of your own making, while placing the blame totally on someone who has actually fulfilled precisely the requirements of her job.

You haven't got a leg to stand on.

If they had been left alone inside, there is a fire risk, or maybe the teacher felt she couldn't leave the building unlocked.

Seems to me the best thing would have been for the teacher to take the children with her to the shop, but that would have caused all sorts of problems too. Like maybe she wouldn't be insured to have them off the premises, or maybe she would be worried about the parents turning up and they weren't there.

The teacher was left with a hard descision to make and no time at all to make it. You say she is very young, what did you expect the poor girl to do? It's your fault for being late.

OP, YANBU to be upset although I'm not sure if the teacher should be sacked - a warning perhaps. I do think you're getting a hard time from lots of people who clearly have no idea what a traffic jam in London is like!

The teacher certainly shouldn't have left your child unattended. Is she the only teacher on the premises? If not, then I would suggest she should have either left the children with the other teacher(s) whilst she went to get lunch, or alternatively waited with your child whilst one of the others got her lunch for her.

I find the lying part unsettling as well. That suggests to me that the teacher knew the children should not have been left, and she was trying to cover her own back.

Other boy was collected as we arrived.

Maybe firing her seems extreme to you, but i wouldn't expect someone with such little common sense, sense of responsibility and ethics to be in the teaching profession.

The OP is being given a hard time because so many of us know exactly what a traffic jam in London is like! It's a risk that you just don't take.

I doubt if she is in the teaching profession. Its clearly some sort of strange Saturday morning language school thing.

Anyway, you do realise you don't have a leg to stand on, don't you? What can you accuse her of? She did the job she's contracted to do. And as for common sense and sense of responsibility .... well, those qualities seem to be sadly lacking in you and your DH as parents!

Its zone 2 - not that it makes a difference.

We have never been late to collect her, we were still in the same postcode.

So this poor woman was left with two children whose parents didn't bother to turn up on time? And you say she has no sense of responsiblity?

Pot and kettle.

What difference does being in the same postcode make?

Is she in the teaching profession? And is the building a proper school, or just a building they use for classes?

YABU to want someone to lose their job when the situation was of your making- had you phoned and spoken to her I think it would have been different.

If your problem is with her asking to get the teacher sacked (which I agree is OTT) than why don't you say so instead of going in for this nasty pack-mentality nit-picking?

There's been a lot of it about recently and I find it really unsettling.

I mean stuff like this "am still a bit sceptical that the nearest outlet to buy food would be two streets away in Central London, or that you had to drive so far away to get a coffee!"

What's the point of that? What are you suggesting? That the OP is making it up?

And anyway - have you no imagination? Of course there are places in London where you have to go 2 streets for food!

You are still refusing to answer the questions about what you would prefer her to have done, what you think about her needing to eat for medical reasons, and whether the children were in a playground or not.

Why is that OP?

Inside the school gates, which are opened for a car to enter if needed. Anyone could walk in.

I didnt see her buying lunch, my dd mentioned thats why she left them there.

Anyone can make a mistake and be late, I'm not sure it's exactly 'irresponsible'? Irresponsible to blame it on someone else maybe, but not to make the initial mistake.