DS is Y2. They are going swimming with school. It's on Thursday afternoons. There are 24 in his class.
The class is known to be "lively" with "lots of big characters". School have also identified Thursday and Friday afternoons to be hard work as children are becoming tired and harder to keep concentration.
So, children split into two groups of 12:
Group A - Non swimmers, armbands on in shallow end, swimming teacher plus two school staff members
Group B - Swimmers (can swim without armbands) at the deep end, swimming teacher
Two incidents occur towards the end of the lesson, one of which is DS pulling a child under the water as he over took her.
Pulled over by Head Teacher today and put forward my mitigation that a) there was one person to 12 children who school know can be challenging b) it was Thursday afternoon which school know is a difficult time slot.
HT totally dismissed my comments.
She said that she will also be speaking to the swimming instructor as she should have alerted school staff earlier that she could not cope with the group. (Surely school staff would have noticed if she were not coping and offered to help??)
DS is missing next week's swim as a consequence - which is fine. I have no problem with that and agree that there should be a consequence.
But AIBU to think that she needs to look at the whole picture? I have a kind of "well, what did they expect to happen" view of it