AIBU to be angry at teacher who refuses DS water on long coach journey???

[Gizzle]

DS came home very subdued and downcast after the annual school day trip to the seaside today. Turns out that he left his bag on the beach (not unusual, he's an 8yo boy after all) but luckily it was retrieved by a teacher. However, when he asked politely for the bag, she refused to give it to him for the entire duration of the return coach journey, even though it contained his water bottle and he was clearly very thirsty after a day on the beach. I'm not sure what kind of lesson she was hoping to teach him, but I would have thought that children of this age should be helped towards independence, and not punished into it. And refusing a thirsty child water? Is there ever a case for that?

At DS's school, they're not allowed to eat and drink on the coach. It's quite a common rule.

I suspect the OP would not have got half as much 'bile' if she hadn't decided the teacher was spiteful, punishing her DS, mean and exploiting her power.

Based on the say of an 8 year old

She's hardly flouncing off.

Some of you lot are absolutely horrible in your replies.

Why can't you give an opinion without sounding .... just so nasty??

You wouldn't answer someone like this in real life - so why do you do it from the safety of your keyboard?

I've seen so many people scared off threads because if this. Go ahead and attack me - I can promise you I'm not coming back to look - but I'm just trying to say there's a nice way to deal with someone you disagree with and a not so nice one.

We're all parents trying to deal with our children and our lives in the best way and I think we should speak to people on here as we would in real life.

Here , here.

Totally agree Weather

Well said Weather.

She did flounce off.

She came here asking if it was unreasonable to be angry and was told by most that she needed to ask the teacher about it before jumping to conclusions.

She has then made nasty asides about the teachers, and remarks like "I thought teaching had improved since my day. "

Further to this there has been the regular MN teacher bash going on.

She made the problem public but refuses to discuss it further, indicating that she knows she was in the wrong.

People are horrible on both sides.

Navy, she said a few times above that she wouldn't update us. This is due to privacy reasons.

She also mentioned that it's only those of us who have "a modicum of intelligence" who can understand why she isn't updating us.

I am correct in thinking that it is OK for the 8 year old's version of the story to be public but the teacher's version has to be kept private?
Is so why?

I just read all of that and will never know what the teacher said?! This is like the time I watched Flash Forward and the second season got cancelled. So many unresolved issues!

My "modicum of intelligence" tells me that her DS hadn't quite told the same thing as the teacher. OP doesn't want to post the teacher's side because it puts DS in a bad light.
But I might be thick and wrong[ hmm]

Nah a modicum of intelligence would tell you to not get angry about this. :)

This thread has been like Lost and How I Met Your Mother... All that build up then... splodge nothing!

anyone with a "modicum of intelligence" wouldn't have posted what they felt was a "private" matter on a public forum.

Flipping hec. All l can say is " There's three sides to every story - yours , mine, and the truth" and the truth is out there.......but op's not tellin