'Thanks very much' would have been a better response?

[OrmIrian]

If your child is invited to attend the pantomime with their school mates. Ticket paid for. Children to be driven there and supervised by staff who volunteer to do so. Returning to school at 9pm.

You say 'thanks' don't you?

Or even 'sorry can't make it'.

Not 'I won't be available to pick up X at 9pm. Please will a member of staff wait with her until 9.45 when I will be able to get there'.

Well I might have forgiven their rudeness as being thoughtless until they called to complain! Obviously nice people.

I hope so lifechanger. I have no axe to grind with the OP at all but don't think it was a wise thing to do.

Blimey! If anyone recognises themselves froma post with no names mentioned whatsoever they must be bloody Sherlock Holmes! And with an even greater sense of their own importance.

And yes, lots of details missing/changed.

So, I think it's fairly safe. Unless there is only one school in the world who takes pupils to a pantomime during pantomime season...

It should not have been posted about. It is a private communication and should have remained so.

Whether anyone recognizes themselves is hardly the point.

When a parent sends a letter or note, phones a school or emails they should feel confident that its contents are not going to be shared on an internet forum.

The problem with parents like these is that even if they are told no they will still blatantly not collect their child until they are ready to. What is the teacher going to do? Leave the child alone?

I think your DH did well to only write "no" in reply. I would've been itching to choose four letter words.

MissAnnersley With a bit of luck, the parent will recognise themselves and realise what an arse they were to make such a request in the first place.

It's seemingly not enough that the teachers have given up an evening to facilitate the trip in the first place (unpaid, and teachers won't get time off in lieu of extra hours worked either) but they want someone to hang around own late at night to supervise their child (and most staff would do this with a colleague, so that's two staff) for an extra 45 minutes - and by and THEN they've got the bloody audacity to complain about the teacher's attitude when they didn't like the response?!