Please help with advise

[jaabaar]

Please is there a teacher on here who could please advise me in PM just for a quick chat please. Thank you ever so much if someone can spare a few minutes

jaabaar it would really help if you mentioned what type of teacher you need. Primary, secondary, special needs, class subject?

I'm so sorry alpacaLypse.
Primary teacher.
Also apologise for putting this in this thread.
Just need some urgent advise as a mother will confront me on Thursday.
I'm sick to my stomach.
Didn't want to put the details on here openly as would be recognised.
Thank you again.

jaabaar I'm not a teacher btw. Really sorry you're so stressed. You've still got over 24 hours to come up with some sort of strategy. Suggest you repost in The Staff Room bit of this site.

This is a very big site, and covers most of the English speaking world, not just UK. Don't worry too much about outing yourself with details.

it happened to me before :(.

Ok take a deep breath, now think about the situation. write down exactly what happened, how you reacted and what it is you now want to happen. I assume you are a teacher that has reacted to something in class and parent is not happy? deal with it by describing to parent what actually happened, say a few nice positive things about the child then finish by describing what now needs to happen to resolve whatever the issue is.(DH calls this the shit sandwich, negative, positive and negative again) keep calm, stick to the facts do not get side tracked away from the issue, repeat yourself as often as is needed refuse to engage if parent gets loud or abusive. Ask someone else to be present in the room too, not to get involved but as a witness. Above all be prepared to apologise and admit you were wrong if this is the case and be prepared to listen to the parents point of view and change actions based on that if it seems fair. if not stick to your guns and remain assertive and calm. Hope this helps a little, I am totally making assumptions here about the situation so could be way off mark. good luck whatever it is.