to move my child to another school because of PJ wearing parents and other things.....

[fiftieslover]

Hi there, your views would be appreciated.

My ds is currently in yr 3 (8 yrs old) he is in a mixed class of years 3 and 4. Since Christmas I have had really serious doubts about the school he is in.

He has asked to move schools a couple of times in the past 6 months and I am seriously considering it. BUT I know at 8 this is a massive change for him. He is a social little boy who makes friends easily and can articulate his thoughts really well. The issues I have with the school are as follows.

1. Parents dropping their children off still wearing their PJs. I not talking lounge wear here, I'm talking fullish sheep adorned pink things. I turn up at school dressed for work, smart and ready for the day.

1. Leading on from 1 is the reason for the PJ wearing. There is a very high number of unemployed parents in the school. I live in a nice part of not a very nice area IYKWIM. Unemployment has always been a problem. I have lived in this area for over 30 years and alot of the children in ds class are 4th and 5th generation unemployed. So I assume the pj wearing is because they have nothing to get ready for? I need to add that sometimes the children are picked up from school at 3pm with said parents still adorning the sheep attire.

I have never been unemployed so struggle to empathise really with the other parents. I work in recruitment and know there are always things you can do to improve your chances but I have never been there so know I dont fully understand the effect unemployment has on you.

1. There are ALOT of kids in the class that are morphing into absolute horrors. The behaviour is getting worse as each school year passes. Once lovely little 4 year olds are now 8 year old swearing, disrespectful kids. My ds went over to one of them the other day to show him his homework. The other kid looked at my ds as if he were stupid and said I dont do homework - I wouldnt dare!.

1. I'm aware this is getting long so going to cut it short. The teachers appear to spend alot of time on discipline - taking actual teaching time away from the good kids.

1. In the past out of 26 kids, there are approximately 8 that behave really well. If the other 18 are playing up, the whole class has been punished. This really annoyed me.

I could go on and I think I have answered my own question seeing it in black and white but would still appreciate your comments.

Thanks fifties x

HA ! I'm real, and you don't like it !

I'm sure you do

The fact you might be real is quite scary tbh

Get back up your own end

I'd rather you were a troll

why is it scary ? because I don't want my family being educated alongside trash who take up the teachers time with their behavioural problems that are caused by crap parenting.

inverted snobbery - classic.

Scary that you think people who live on council estates are trash

Scary that you won't allow your children to mix with mine,

most of the ones who lived on mine were

Mind you I wouldn't want my kids to pick up your narrow minded bigoted attitude so its probably for the best they don't mix.

It might be scary, but its my choice.

yeah, I can't see that play date going well.

You call children trash?
That's lovley

Not all children are nice.

None of them are trash

I just need to be clear here, are you calling my children trash?

recall you sound like a snobby twat.

oh here we go, you would love that, this is not all about you and your kids.

Are you back tracking?

I've never met your kids, how would I know. I speak as I find, and I am not afraid to say out loud that there are crap schools who have trashy kids who misbehave and waste teachers time. I choose not to tolerate it, and ensure my kids are not affected by them.

Do you think no one on MN actually lives on a council estate?

whys should I tolerate that if I can find a way out of it ?

You wont allow your children to mix with mine, so you must think they are trash as you so charmingly put it

I grew up on one myself, and I didn't like it, am I supposed to pretend that I did for fear of offending council estate dwellers ?