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AIBU?

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AIBU to be mad at my DTs school?

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cariad31 · 21/04/2007 20:39

Am I being unreasonable to be mad at my DTs school? My DTs are in primary 1, and school finishes at 2.30pm. My DH, who is a SAHD, managed to fall asleep after lunch on Friday (he wasn't feeling well), and woke up to find that it had just gone 2.30pm. As the school is only a 5 minute walk around the corner, he didn't call to say he was late, but instead just ran round (I think we can all imagine the flustered state he was in by now!).

He arrived at 2.35pm to find our very good little boys waiting inside the school gates. They were a little upset, thinking they'd been forgotten.

What's made us both mad though, is being the good little chaps they are, they tried to go back into school to tell a teacher their daddy wasn't there, only to find that all the doors had been locked, and the teachers were nowhere to be seen.

Now, I'm not being funny, but the teachers could at least see that all their charges had been collected safely couldn't they? It seems a bit excessive to chuck the kids out and immediately lock the doors behind them (DH was after all only 5 minutes late).

I want to complain to the teacher, but thought I'd see what you all thought. So, am I being unreasonable?

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Elasticwoman · 24/04/2007 21:19

When my dd2 was 3 she was missing from nursery class when dh went to collect her. This is not stamped as indelibly on my memory as other unfortunate experiences with my un-sensible progeny, because she had been found again before I knew about it. DD2 had managed to avoid being noticed by the 2 adults on the door, and ran home. Some one who knew us recognised her and escorted her back to school, where dh was, and the teacher was frantically searching the building, never guessing that dd2 had gone the other way.

At least the nursery teacher was suitably apologetic afterwards and tightened up her procedures.

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