DS didn't say his line in school assembley

[Luol81]

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??

Oh my fucking god this thread is hilarious 😂😂
Are you serious?? Complaining to the school because YOUR son forgot his lines but he doesn't think he did 😂
Yes op definitely complain because the teachers will appreciate the laugh 😂

We once had a parent demand his daughter win the egg and spoon race. He had videoed it and said his daughter had come first - when in fact she had come second.

He wanted a video replay.

For an egg and spoon race.

Mrscaindingle that is a legitimate complaint, though. I wouldn't be able to wash and dry and kit on Friday night for Saturday morning. Even if we could afford a tumble dryer there's nowhere to put it. Our washing machine's in a cupboard.

YANBU

Call a meeting with the governors, insist they make the teachers re-run the assembly and make certain that the teacher knows to prompt your DS.
Ask that the teacher explain her previous actions to your DS and have her apologise to him.
Why should he be denied the opportunity to shine??

(Sarcasm alert)...
Yep, you’re spot on OP, totally unacceptable. I suggest Monday morning you barge in an let the teacher have it both barrels.

But you can start today by emailing the head, governors. Don’t forget to mark it formal complaint that way they’ll have to report to Ofsted.
Do you have a parents Facebook page? Perhaps slag the teacher off on there.
Oh and don’t forget to contact Rt Hon Justine Greening MP at Department for Education.

Or alternatively have a and one for your husband . I hear Amazon have some amazing Black Friday deals on grips, you sound as if you need one.

My sympathies to all teachers out there that have to put up with this sort of crap.

You and your husband are really not coming across well here!

I hope the teacher reads this thread when the Daily Fail get hold of it.

*We once had a parent demand his daughter win the egg and spoon race. He had videoed it and said his daughter had come first - when in fact she had come second.

He wanted a video replay.

For an egg and spoon race.*

Unfortunately this is quite common after sports day! I also once witnessed 2 mums brawling on the playground about which one of their daughters won a race...

highlight fail!

Thanks for the comments ladies, I did say it's abit silly at the beginning and I know it's not a big deal...I won't be complaining any further. DH wanted to be there but he works in the U.K. So I promised to send him a clip of DS. And we live abroad to be near my family, that's why it's a Sunday!!

If it wasn't important enough to him to time a bit of leave back in the country you are in, then it's not important enough to complain about
My daughter didn't even have a single line last year. It coincided with my alternating weeks working abroad. I switched my week and took an afternoon of leave.

What an utterly absurd reaction to a non-event. Tell your DH to attempt to get a grip on reality.

At least he had a line. My child went through the whole of junior school sitting on the side as the supposed choir!!!

I really hope your DS was out of ear shot when you raised this with the teacher. What a way to knock a kids confidence.

I almost gave up teaching when a parent came to complain that I had totally overlooked a missing full stop in her dd's essay. Naturally that missing full stop totally ruined the dear girl's subsequent education and adult life! (Not). Class assemblies where parents are invited are already unbelievably stressful for teachers. Don't add to the stress by whingeing about a non event.

My DD (5) had a dance show, she came on a bit late, scratched her leg, looked for us, waved, pointed us out to her friend then took a bow. It was perfect! It's the cute-ness and excitement that matters at this age, not getting everything "right."

It’s often the parents who aren’t there for their children as often as they’d like that are the ranters and frothers. As if by making a lot of fuss when you are there makes up for it. It’s just bloody rude and lacking in proportion. Wouldn’t be so bad if they could take it as well as give it our, but most of them resent being questioned about failures in the minutia of parenting. Plus, teachers aren’t allowed to do it any more.

I feel sorry for teachers having to deal with entitled parents.

Oh lordy, I've only just clocked on this isn't even a ChristmasZilla thread. It's a school assembly.
You might need to start taking tranks now for the Christmas show OP.

One local school has gone down in history after a tantruming shepherd drop-kicked baby Jesus. It was the talk of the playground.

So do you want a refund?
I'm confused what you think will happen if you complained...

Your ds forgot to say his line and its the teachers fault...ok...

and for all Primary School teachers - especially at this time of year.

I sympathise OP. I have watched many of these performances with my now older dc. Looking back I realise how seriously I took them as I wanted my dc to do well, especially as none of them were very confident or outgoing. As a result looking back I don't have many happy memories of watching them. I wish now that I had been able to chill out and had a laugh at them and all their classmates in all their cuteness instead of getting so hung-up about it But we can't help how we automatically react to a situation. In my case I think it was more to do with me and my lack of self esteem.
I hope posting on here will help you to be able to look at it in a more helpful way and you won't feel so upset.

I love the rotund star jumping off stage 😂

Whoever said up top they're glad they're secondary so don't get these complaints- I need to come work at your school, cuz I've had a few 😂

My first reaction was 'seriously?, wtf?'
My second was This time tomorrow, next wee, month, year, it really won't matter two hoots. It is really of no consequence.
We've had stuff like that happen and it may seem super important at the time it is a non issue. Now they are grown up we have turned any daft hinges into family jokes and throw them out as banter every now and again like ' Anyway you nugget, you can't talk, what about the time you were supposed to be a shepherd and you started singing 'who let the dogs out, and all the other shepherds went ' woof, woof' ' (True story , totally ad libed and had nothing to do with anything and the poor teacher wanted a sink hole to disappear into!)

It's odd, isn't it, that as soon as some anomaly is pointed out in a post, the OP is suddenly never UK based