to fuming that there has been no staff at the local secondary school since 3.30pm to take a serious complaint about bullying and harrasment

[tomhardyismydh]

I walked past the house of a family who I do know but not terribly well and I am aware there middle daughter is being bullied.

outside was a group of girls looking in through their window shouting and jeering and swearing. I know the mum works some afternoons so I did intervien and tell the group of girls to leave them alone and move away from the house...in hindsight a bit silly of me as I did have my 5 yr old dd with me, but I wasn't in any way afraid forour safety or anything. Turns out the mum was home and she also then came out. They took the message and went away, but then followed me up the street shouting and swearing and berating me. It was laughable really but attempted to call non emergency police no just to show the little shits they can get away with behaving like this, but my bloody mobile died on me.

Anyway I have been trying to call the school since 3.30 and no one has been available to take my call, and have just now been told all senior management staff left at 4.15 and receptionist cant locate any other teaching staff. no one will be in over half term. now I m shocked that the head did not pick up his answer messages before leaving the school for a whole week, I had left one message at 3.30 and one at 4pm. I find it hard to even believe the head of a secondary school would even finish at 4.15.

Im tempted to call the non emergancy no again to give the message to the school this not acceptable, but Im sure this is very little the police would even be able to do.

also I want to say bunch of little bitches how horrible for a group of girls to behave like this!!!!!

Just wondered if they could be contacted outside of the building whilst working?

Try your Safer Neighbourhood team and report it on Fix My Street as well.

If the girls were in school uniform the school should take it seriously as they are bringing the school into disrepute. However, I reported children in uniform playing chicken with oncoming traffic to a local school and they wrote back saying that children from their school would not do that and I had probably made a mistake with the uniforms.

So I would go with the Safer Neighbourhood team.

Fix my street are good, they send reports to your local council so reporting a gang of girls behaving in an antisocial way is one of the things they will deal with (I've seen other reports of this nature on there) and if you can say which school uniform the girls were wearing or say that you recognised them as pupils from a certain school even if they weren't in uniform the school won't be able to dismiss it so easily. You can remain anonymous as well.

Make sure you say that you tried to call the school and nobody was available.

>claig: Just wondered if they could be contacted outside of the building whilst working?
Why? So that when a teacher is still up at 2.00 a.m. marking books or creating resources he could also receive calls from you?

Teachers according to their contract are obliged to work 1265 directed hours an academic year. There are 194 workdays in an academic year, so that is 6.5 hours per day. If a teacher arrives at 8.30 at school (and most I know are there well before 8) and leave at 3.30, they have fulfilled their contractual hours. Most teachers work loads more than this but those are non-directed hours, they can do them wherever they like and they are not obliged to receive phone calls from you or anyone.

If you're really concerned I would ring after half term and say you thought they might want to be aware of this, since the girls are from that school.

But the staff cannot be expected to be available after the school day to deal with something that is not happening at the school there are then.

'So that when a teacher is still up at 2.00 a.m. marking books or creating resources he could also receive calls from you?'

No, not 2.00 a.m., just 3.30 p.m.

Snakeears said 'their working day does not need to be in the building'. Maybe the receptionist could transfer the call to their mobile on their working day, when they have left the building.

claig - what utter nonsense. In any place of work if the phone isn't answered you leave a message on the answering machine or try again during hours of business, in this case school hours.

You are on wind up here.

The OP called at 3.30 p.m. and left a couple of messages on teh HT's answering machine. At some point after 4.15 p.m. a receptionist answered the phone and said everyone had gone by 4.15 p.m. Could no one have answered between 3.30 and 4.15? Who was the receptionist? Was it a cleaner?

It could well have been a cleaner, I would think!

Yes, possibly. A very good cleaner who answered the phone and informed the OP, who had called several times due to her agitated state, that everyone had gone at 4.15 p.m. At least that way, she knew there was no point in making further calls, as they had all left the building.

It was Rosemary the Telephone Operator.

Why was she manning the ship alone, when the captain and crew were away on their hols? But good on her.

well school cleaners are normally contracted to start their shift at the end of the school day, aren't they?

yes I realise that. I was on about Rosemary, the telephone operator. Does her shift start when the teachers leave?

I don't know the contracted hours of Rosemary, the telephone operator, I'm afraid.

It may have been Henry, the Mild Mannered Janitor in that case. Did the person answering the phone sound like a cool 1970s black American?

Rosemary told me she fucking hates working there and has a total laugh winding up parents who ring late on the last day of term. She finds it hard to concentrate on talking sensibly when the headteacher is making wanker signals with his hand and crossing his eyes at her.

It was rosemary the telephone operator who answered and not silvia the cleaner. she put me through to the HT at 3.30 and 4 and at 4.45 she told me all senior staff had gone at 4.15, but she tried two other teaching staff who she believed where around but it rang back to her.

well funnily enough I was reading in the free paper yesterday, it is a new head at the school who has plans to turn it around and improve standards, so possibly he was a press call.

it was Rosemary, in the foyer with the candlestick....

Could be

But soverylucky, couldn't the head be reached via mobile phone? What if there was an emergency at the school, a fire or a break-in? Should he be incommunicado?

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