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Should I let her teacher know?

57 replies

Halle71 · 18/03/2017 15:55

My 7 year old / yr 3 DD went on a school trip yesterday and when I was cleaning out her lunchbox I found this. It's her writing.
I asked her how she knows about Chucky and she named a boy in her class.
Reading between the lines (her teacher practically told me) he comes from a troubled background and DD has taken it upon herself to look after him - lends him stationary, helps him with his work, pairs with him for trips because no one else will (her words) and chooses him for team sports.
I really don't want to spoil this relationship or make life any more difficult for him, but I'm also not happy about things they are potentially talking about.
Maybe not mention his name?

Should I let her teacher know?
OP posts:
Rabbit01 · 18/03/2017 19:19

Go with your original gut feel OP xx

crawk · 18/03/2017 19:50

Hi OP,

I'm with BarbarianMum and ILikeBeans.. on this.

You know best for your child, if you're concerned / not happy then talk to the teacher.

Teachers are professionals and they are trained in safeguarding. They've a duty of care to their pupils.

HouseOfGingerbread · 18/03/2017 20:40

Just by the by, it was never confirmed that Jon Venables, who killed James Bulger, had seen Child's Play, only that his father had rented it at some point. It was just an aspect that appealed to the press.

ILikeBeansWithKetchup · 18/03/2017 20:45

I read different very recently. I know it wasn't confirmed , but it was in the house and his father admitted allowing the boy to watch his films. The poor little thing was killed in a way that mimicked a scene form Childsplay. All in The Byron Report.

Anyway, as you said it's by the by. It's still a vile piece of work.

MissGoggins · 18/03/2017 20:55

me too Goggins
OP did you read my post about my DS and the shelf?

I don't know the full story about the shelf, but from what you have shared I can't get too worked up about it. My Dd has a scar by her eye too. We've never felt the way you say about it - it just happened.

ILikeBeansWithKetchup · 18/03/2017 21:01

Goggins it was really about the fact that my son kind of befriended the troubled types and this was encouraged by school in seating arrangements in class/ on school trips etc. I'm not remotely traumatised by it, if it sounded that way. But he was not assertive, being a child and allowed this one particular boy to be nasty to him. It just sounds like OP's daughter. Then one day the boy threw (hurled) in fact this shelf full force at my son. Could have blinded him. That is all.

ILikeBeansWithKetchup · 18/03/2017 21:04

Goggins btw I wasn't linking my me too Goggins to my story about the shelf.

I was agreeing with what you said about OP's post....

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