Horrible scary incident in the playground.

[BadDayAtTheOrifice]

I'd collected my girls from junior school and was walking through the playground towards the gate and noticed a boy on the ground screaming and clutching his knee. The headmaster appears and I notice the boys Dad is shouting 'You fucking little bastard' at a small boy.

He is shouting and screaming at this boy, the head has to step infront of this dad as the he looks like he wants to hit the boy, he's following him around, still shouting threats.
The small boy he is shouting at is obviously distressed. Another mother grabs him and and starts to walk him back into the school, the dad follows and they have to run into the school, crying and obviously scared. The head is doing his best to calm him down. We left then so don't know what happened, but I shall be thanking that mother. I hope everythings OK.

I am livid. It makes me so angry that some people think that this is OK. That poor, poor boy. Kids should be able to feel safe at school and not worried that someone else's dad is going to harm them physically. I feel sick. I feel angry. And sad.

Just needed to get that off my chest and have a vent. Thanks for listening.

That poor little boy. So sorry you had to witness that. Let's hope that the situation was such that the boy isn't living with a monster who hits him and he is safe and well with a loving relative now.

Hope you and your girls are okay x

Poor little boy. I'm sure the head will call SS.

have I got it wrong, or was his own ds the one on the floor with a hurt knee, and the child he was shouting at somebody else's

Arsehole, anyway

I think that the Dad was shouting at another little boy (not his own son) who had presumably done something to the son. Regardless, a small boy should not be terrorised by a grown man like that. I would personally think calling the police might be better.

Poor little lad. I'm glad the head teacher stepped in, and that the other mother had the presence of mind to take the little boy back indoors.

So the dad was shouting at a boy who had hurt his own son I'm assuming?

I can't say I agree with the shouting or the bad language but I sure as hell would have something to say to a child that attacked one of mine!

hope you are ok and that you do get a chance to thank that other mother. That's terrible.

Was the boy on the floor with the injured knee the man's son?
Was the small boy (who was being shouted at) another child?

I don't agree with anyone using language like that (especially in front of children).
But you witnessed a tiny snapshot of what happened.

Imagine this scenario.
Boy tells his dad he's being bullied.
Dad walks him to school to try to 'sort it'
Small boy launches himself at the boy who falls to the ground, injured.

Dad shouts at the bully "You' FLB"

As I stated I do not condone this behaviour.
But you don't know what happened.

It is dreadful, no adult should behave that way to a child. However, you don't know the whole situation. Perhaps the boy on the floor has been systematically bullied and beaten up by the other boy for months. When I read bullying threads on here I am always horrified by what some children have to put up with. Hopefully all the people involved will deal appropriately with everyone. What is the school's bullying policy like.

so his own boy is hurt and crying on the floor, and all he's doing is having a go at the other kid?

I'm speechless, some people!

regardless of the actual incident/scenario, no adult should behave like that on a school playground, to another adult let alone an unaccompanied small child!!

Now Ive read the replies I am reading it differently, I first thought that it was one boy and he was the one on the ground being shouted at by hid dad?

It sounds horrible, but I agree with others there there may be more to it.

The (fully grown) man shouted, screamed, swore, wouldn't be placated by the head and then followed a child back into the school shouting all the way. And some people think that's OK?

HT should have called the police.

I did think of the scenario where the dad has snapped after his son has suffered bullying from the other child, but it still does not excuse a grown man trying to get to a small boy (junior school age!) to threaten him and potentially assault him.

I don't think its ok at all.

But Id not pass judgement until I heard the background [which obviously we won't!]

And some people think that's OK? No, actually no one thinks that is OK so far. Some people are just keen not to assume that the fault is all on one side without knowing the situation. No one is condoning a grown man screaming, shouting and scaring a child.

No idea what happened either but sounds horrible.

Thats horrible for the wee boy and all the other children to witness, im totally against adults approaching other children to deal with situations there mad at imo you deal through the school and childs parents, i would go mental in any adult raised there voice at my dc no matter the circumstances

I wonder if he snapped after his son being relentlessly bullied or something?

Not that it makes it ok

Poledra - where did the "potential assault" come from?

I can only describe what I saw. The child he was shouting at was not his own. Regardless of te reasons for this outburst, this is not acceptable behaviour anywhere but especially not in a school playground.

OP said it looked like the man wanted to hit the boy. I apologise if I have over-extrapolated.

Ah, I see, so the hurt boy was his son, and presumably hurt by the boy he was shouting at? That makes sense. But no, not appropriate at all.

As the mother of a child who is being bullied I understand feeling like the man did!! I really do. The feeling of rage towards the child who bit my DD yesterday are quite consuming!

However, I am an adult and she is a child and she will never feel my wrath! This is why I talk to the HT, not the mother or the child.

That poor boy and well done to the mother who intervened.