Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

DS didn't say his line in school assembley

159 replies

Luol81 · 26/11/2017 05:59

Maybe this is silly but am just wondering if I should be upset that my 6 year old DS didn't say his one line at the school assembly this morning. It was only one small line and we had practiced it at home easily. We were not given a script so I didn't know when he would say it exactly, but they were practicing at school last week. Their class teacher was sitting right infront of the stage and I could hear her prompting other children during the show to say their lines so I don't understand why she didn't help him when his turn came? ?? I asked her after the show and she said he might have gotten shy but that it was partly her fault as she got too focused on the other two children next to him who had longer and more lines to say?? I just feel abit upset as he seemed looking forward to his assembley and he thinks he said his line when he clearly didn't?? Sent the video to hubby who was more annoyed then me and wants to complain??

OP posts:
EveningShadows · 26/11/2017 08:42

Sunshine, believe me I’ve written honest replies to my parents a thousand times in my head and never sent them Hmm.

I also have a Christmas assembly coming up and also have a shy child who isn’t going to perform. He’s taking up a disproportionate amount of my time at the moment. If he doesn’t say his line and his mum complains.

Dear god.

Take a long hard look in the mirror OP.

ABCEDFGHIJKMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ · 26/11/2017 08:46

Your husband is angry but couldn’t be bothered to go to the assembly. Wally.

^^ This x 100

Let it go.

NovemberWitch · 26/11/2017 08:46

I’m always surprised by how lovely so many children are, when you know what their parents are like. One of the great things about teaching primary is being an effective counterbalance when necessary, and how great children are at becoming their own individuals, rather than parental clones.

Thingvellir · 26/11/2017 08:48

This reply has been deleted

Message deleted by MNHQ. Here's a link to our Talk Guidelines.

ittakes2 · 26/11/2017 08:48

He's such six - plenty of future opportunities for more lines. To be honest, I would be more concerned how he feels about it - and he thinks he said it so if I was you I would move on. You can't change the past.

ghostyslovesheets · 26/11/2017 08:48

Op (should you ever return) yabvvu- especially calling it a show! 😂

He didn’t have his scene cut from an Oscar winning story - he’s happy - leave it there

Complaining is daft and would make you look silly

Starlight2345 · 26/11/2017 08:50

So its not an issue for your DS but your DH who didn't even attend wants to complain.

Confused
LavenderDoll · 26/11/2017 08:50

Complain about what?
Complain to who?
YABU

Slartybartfast · 26/11/2017 08:54

well it obviously wasnt this morning, the op posted at 6.00 am

CherryChasingDotMuncher · 26/11/2017 08:55

I'm also kind of wondering why DH can't complain himself if he's so angry.

EvilDoctorBallerinaRoastDuck · 26/11/2017 08:55

DD was a narrator in the nativity play in yr1. One of the other narrators was off sick, so a teacher read her lines. DD has been practising her lines at home, so I knew them off by heart too. The teacher accidentally read one of DD's lines, as she just saw a name starting with a "K" (they both have the same initial). I was probably more upset than DD! I didn't complain though.

EvilEdna1 · 26/11/2017 09:00

When I was 7 I was given the part of Dorothy in our Xmas play of the Wizard of Oz. The teacher picked me because I was cute....huge error. I said zero lines. Just moved around mute. Other kids said them for me. My mum was mortified. Never got a good role again understandably.

Dinosaursdontgrowontrees · 26/11/2017 09:01

Umm yabvu your son thinks he said the line and doesn't care. Why does it matter? What would you possibly hope to achieve by complaining.
Also confused but the ' my son didn't say his line in his assembly this morning' line in the op posted at 6am on a Sunday??

MadisonAvenue · 26/11/2017 09:03

FFS! You and your husband need to get a grip.

Lanaa · 26/11/2017 09:03

@Luol81 What a disgrace, you should definitely complain. Write letters to the head, the chair of governors, the LA and of course OFSTED. This teacher should be dismissed immediately- damaging the egos of parents isn't acceptable. I can't believe the school didn't have an autocue set up for the assembly.

Hmm
RitaConnors · 26/11/2017 09:09

I don’t know Edna,you were pretty good in Willo the Wisp. Very believable.

chickenowner · 26/11/2017 09:11

The teacher has apologised, and probably feels terrible about it.

What else do you want to happen? For the teacher to have a written reprimand? To have a note on her record? For her to be publicly humiliated? To be fired?

As a pp has said, it's stuff like this that made me leave full time teaching.

Mrscaindingle · 26/11/2017 09:12

It's a bit disappointing but no more than that and certainly not grounds to complain to the school.

It's like the mum on out football group chat the other day complaining that she didn't have enough time to wash and dry a football kit between training on Friday night and the game on Saturday morning. I read things like this and think oh to only have things like this to worry about.

Witsender · 26/11/2017 09:12

My daughter was Mary in the nativity. Wouldn't speak a word when the time came. 😂 Her lovely teachers were just so proud that she had even stood up there on front of a crowd and none of us cared.

Don't make this into a big deal. It sounds like it matters to you more than him.

MartysHere · 26/11/2017 09:13

He thinks he did. I honestly wouldn't give it another thought.

NotAgainYoda · 26/11/2017 09:16

Is this another one of "those" threads?

Mermaidblue · 26/11/2017 09:17

Complain about what, exactly?

Ellisandra · 26/11/2017 09:17

I've taken my hat off ready to eat it if your husband is currently posted to Syria.
Or in prison following a miscarriage of justice for a crime he didn't commit.

But my first thought was - he's so annoyed, but he couldn't be bothered to take time off to go Hmm

Total non event.
Poor teacher.

Stopyourhavering · 26/11/2017 09:22

First world problems....Hmm
You'll have 10 more years of education to get through, choose your battles wisely

C8H10N4O2 · 26/11/2017 09:23

I've heard of Sunday school but this happened this morning? Really? And allowed videos?

Welcome to MN, FAQs are thataway ---->