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AIBU?

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AIBU to expect teachers to help DS

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Champagneandthestars · 28/02/2018 17:07

Remember his frigging snow gear!? He's 4 and I walked him to school in snow boots on Tuesday morning. My mum picked him up and didn't bring his boots home - ok, I'll accept that one. Picked him up in a bloody blizzard today still no snow boots. I asked for them and the TA said they had to go to after school club - they'd look tomorrow. I get half way across the playground and his gloves are missing from his bag! We had to walk all the way home without them and he was FREEZING! Tempted to keep him off school tomorrow as have no gloves or boots for the walk to school .

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Lindy2 · 28/02/2018 18:29

Sorry I think it's more down to whoever is collecting the child to check they have everything not the teacher or TA.
Next time, if he has any extra clothes to remember, just do a quick text to whoever is collecting to check he has them when he comes out.
I really can't see how a TA can check every child for boots, gloves, coats, hats, bags, water bottles, reading books etc etc....

FluffyWuffy100 · 28/02/2018 18:56

Gloves on a string. Also, hat on a string and clip to the coat.

Boots under peg.

MiaowTheCat · 28/02/2018 18:58

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Appuskidu · 28/02/2018 19:00

I get half way across the playground and his gloves are missing from his bag! We had to walk all the way home without them and he was FREEZING

WTF! I’m not surprised he was freezing! What a shame he didn’t have a parent with enough sense to walk back a few metres and go and get them.

But, no-you just carry on blaming the TA.

RavenWings · 28/02/2018 19:05

Oh feck off. Take some responsibility for your child yourself, the teachers are not childminders and it's not their job to individually pack every childs bag for them, or check over their packing. It isn't a babysitting service, it's school. School is there to educate.

I can't see why you didnt turn around and go back for his gloves.

mommy2018 · 01/03/2018 09:46

Did you have gloves on @op?

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Champagneandthestars · 01/03/2018 10:30

Fair enough - but they lock all the doors on the way out and there is no way back in so I can't get them myself or even send DS back in. I'm a year one teacher so I can assure you I know they have 30 children, but if they are going to make the school Fort Knox the minute the children leave you should make an effort to ensure the cloakroom is empty of snow gear. I always do in my class. I had no gloves myself or I would of course given them to him. Have bollocksed off walking now and will park right outside the school until snow is done.

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Feenie · 02/03/2018 15:29

There's no way they can let 30 kids out and lock the doors in the split second it would take you to check his gloves. It's not an instantaneous event.

ittakes2 · 02/03/2018 17:08

Yabu - do you think staff have time to notice and remember and check their entire classes clothing? If you have a child who forgets things - just double check when you collect them they have everything they need - if anything has been forgotten, then you or your child can go back into the school then and there to get them.

ittakes2 · 02/03/2018 17:10

Sorry - didn’t see you other post about classroom being locked - but surely the front office is still open as teachers would not have left yet.

Itscolderoutside · 02/03/2018 21:23

Did you have gloves on? I would have given him mine for the journey home or just pulled his sleeves over his hands and hope the experience would help him remember his stuff next time. Honestly though, I can't believe you are a Class 1 teacher yourself and wrote the post you did. I have had 3 children through primary school and yes stuff gets lost, left behind and is mislaid. It just does. Not to be mean but I'm guessing this is your first chilld. Wait until he comes home in 'his shoes' but one his size and one two sizes larger, or his coat is locked in school and you're going on holiday at 6am next morning, brand new trainers go missing , or they sneak your best HoF towel into their swimming bag and leave it on the bus . We all just muddle through, a bit of a moan and get on with it! I've never heard anyone blame the teacher or TA.

Appuskidu · 02/03/2018 21:26

Fair enough - but they lock all the doors on the way out and there is no way back in so I can't get them myself or even send DS back in.

If that’s true-which I doubt-then that’s your problem, not the gloves.

Itscolderoutside · 02/03/2018 21:35

tempted to keep him off school tomorrow as have no gloves or boots for the walk to school

And this... it beggars belief. You say you have a car, so you do have an alternative and yet you were tempted to keep your DS off school to make a point. I hate the phrase 'one of those parents', we can all lose perspective at times, but it is a really OTT reaction.

MaisyPops · 02/03/2018 22:05

Have bollocksed off walking now and will park right outside the school until snow is done.
So because you didn't realise your kid didn't have gloves etc, you're going to ignore weather and travel advice because presumably thr advice applies to everyone but you?

(Is it just me who thinks the increase in accdients and road issues during bad weather is in part due to parents who could walk with their children opting to drive? Round here very minimal issues the second most schools closed)

donquixotedelamancha · 02/03/2018 23:56

I'm a year one teacher so I can assure you I know they have 30 children

Tempted to keep him off school tomorrow as have no gloves or boots for the walk to school

I can think of no other reply: [Biscuit]

donquixotedelamancha · 02/03/2018 23:58

(you can tell I haven't given one before can't you)

DalekDalekDalek · 03/03/2018 00:03

I'm sorry but the whole of your last post sounds like absolute bollocks. I'm genuinely concerned if you are a teacher as you completely lack any sense of responsibility and if you keep your DS off school for such a stupid reason then you clearly have no respect for education.

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