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Original poster

Slightly annoyed at head of private school...

95 replies

chilligarlic · 08/11/2011 21:30

...emailed request to 'take dd (4ys, reception) out of school for additional time before end of term (unexpexted trip to my family in oz) two days ago. No response, nor acknowledgment of email. We have reserved airline tickets and now have paid for them.

Private school, ffs should she not have a PA to deal with if too busy, failing that im being a moaning cow and my mail went into spam.

Even more pissed off as when dd started school her teacher was absent after a week leaving us to deal with 'where is my teacher' and no communication from school, she was absent for approx a week for personal reasons, no problem, but perhaps the school could have told parents, as opposed to girls going in every day not knowing if teacher would be there.

Grrrr....

OP posts:
mymummyisasquarehead · 08/11/2011 22:22

2 days?!

Oh, the travesty!!

And, therein lies the difference - customer service?! You might be paying for it, but you're still a parent at the end of the day.

The second you mentioned it was private school (NO relevance whatsoever btw) you opened yourself up to criticism.

YABVU

Original poster
chilligarlic · 08/11/2011 22:25

Exactly Yellowstone, read my earlier post, she is four, it's no crisis. The school is hardly going to expell us and not want their rather large fees for the foreseeable future are they.

Perhaps they could appoint a parents liasion officer.

OP posts:
Original poster
chilligarlic · 08/11/2011 22:30

No qualified teachers, oh dear. Suppose better than a graduate dealing with 30
X more children, majority who don't speak English...

Four year olds need nurture.

OP posts:
Yellowstone · 08/11/2011 22:30

Hmm I think I got the fact she was four from your original post?

I don't know why you even wrote, I'd have told them at pick up time a couple of days before.

Original poster
chilligarlic · 08/11/2011 22:32

I don't know why either, clearly it's not productive.

OP posts:
mymummyisasquarehead · 08/11/2011 22:33

It is a forum to air grievances and ask for opinions, some of which will tell you you're being a bit of a twat ;-)

Disembark?! Make sure one takes one's Henri Lloyd with one :-)

mymummyisasquarehead · 08/11/2011 22:34

4 year olds need parents with a sense of reality!

Merrylegs · 08/11/2011 22:38

"It's an urgent request..'

But it's not really, is it? Because you are going to go anyway. So consider your job done and think no more about it. It makes no odds if they reply or not because you aren't going to change your plans, are you?

exoticfruits · 08/11/2011 22:42

I can't see why you didn't just write a letter telling the Head what you were doing. If they had replied immediately outlining reasons for not doing it would you have altered plans? Hmm
Did you not think of popping in to see the Head to ask about the temporary teacher?

Alliwantisaroomsomewhere · 08/11/2011 23:10

Jesus, OP! I was vaguely sympathetic until your nauseating post with respect to being called "love" and your fucking up-yourself-post which reads: "No qualified teachers, oh dear. Suppose better than a graduate dealing with 30
X more children, majority who don't speak English..."

cor blimey dot com!! (a fusion of eras Grin)

OnlyWantsOne · 09/11/2011 07:16

Just LOL.

NinkyNonker · 09/11/2011 07:53
Hmm
NinkyNonker · 09/11/2011 07:54

Heaven forbid there may be some who, shock horror, don't speak English.

SoupDragon · 09/11/2011 08:00

Calling someone "love" when you mean anything but is rather rude and patronising [shrug]

exoticfruits · 09/11/2011 08:18

The school is hardly going to expell us and not want their rather large fees for the foreseeable future are they.

I think that explains why they don't need customer service.

Clawdy · 09/11/2011 08:29

"majority who don't speak English.." Hmm. Says quite a lot about you,I think.

DuchessofMalfi · 09/11/2011 08:52
Biscuit
Esta3GG · 09/11/2011 08:54

Why don't you pick up a telephone and speak to another human being?
Or get off your arse and go in there?
Why the reliance on a solitary email which, by your own admission, could be spammed?
Proper letters on paper & in envelopes are far harder to lose/ignore.

If you are not keen on the school then you can always buy your child's education elsewhere.

LIZS · 09/11/2011 08:55

oh dear, if you get het up about this you are going to have a bumpy ride , whatever type of school it is, and you have at least 14 years to look forward to!

wordfactory · 09/11/2011 08:56

Oh come on.
It's a school not a restaurant.

seeker · 09/11/2011 09:00

Think yourself lucky it's not a state school- generally teachers there only stay a week before they either go off with a nervous breakdown or get murdered. And the Heads are always too busy dealing with drug dealers and mothers with tattoos and tracksuits to answer the phone. And the phone signal can't get through the riot shields round the office and the phones hqve probably been stolen anyway.

SoupDragon · 09/11/2011 09:14

I wonder how this would have gone had the OP not mentioned the fact that it is a private school. I bet the responses would have been less rude.

seeker · 09/11/2011 09:17

I' wondering why she mntio Ed what sort of school it was at all- she obviously thought it was relevant!

SharrieTBGinzatome · 09/11/2011 09:23

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norriscoleforpm · 09/11/2011 09:26

I thought private schools had loads of furriners - y'know princes and stuff?

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