Teacher binning clothes

[DownToTheRiver818]

DS (10) was back from residential trip today, tearfully the first thing he said to me off the bus was that Mr X put his wellies, jacket & waterproof trousers in the bin that morning. He said he’d taken them off after a muddy activity and hung them/put them where they usually do. He was told they’d been binned as he’d left them out.

It sounds like they’d been told to pack them immediately and ds hadn’t heard/hadn’t been listening.

Is this ok even if a warning has been given? It’s not punishing him so much as us.

He could well have just said he’s binned them but has kept them separate as ‘lost property’, maybe to teach him a lesson?

I’ll be seeing teacher after school tomorrow to clarify but WIBU to ask that they are replaced if they have been chucked?

Look, I work in a job that involves note-taking for school HR meetings. I have been in a few of these meetings where teachers have been getting disciplined for spiteful, overstepping-the-mark behaviour. For calling a kid with SN offensive names. For physically shoving a student out of a room. Some teachers are absolute shits, who go in to the job because the idea of having absolute power over others appeals to them. (And, to be fair, some are just burnt out by the overwork and the shit pay and the mess the government is making of the education system, but it can still come out in unacceptable treatment of kids.)

lj
Oh do be quiet. Kids take things literally. My son would have been in a panic all the way home if a teacher said that to him.

Its not funny, its lying to a child (who had plenty time to pack away his stuff after the activity)making them upset and thinking its funny. How old is the teacher? He sounds about 12 himself.

LJ it was obviously said to make him feel worried for over 24 hours - hardly a joke. As I said I’ll not be taking it further.

As I also said previously he was obviously not listening. He didn’t hear, cause he wasn’t listening... could have been dealt with differently.

Teacher at a guess is late 20’s. No previous problems with him so can only imagine it was said due to stress/tiredness/frustration.