DS1’s year group is having an end of year assembly soon. The typical format for these assemblies at our school is, the children talk about what they’ve studied this year, with each child getting at least one line, some children with several lines, and then the children sing a few songs.
One of the mums of DS1’s classmates is getting worked up because her DS has only been given one very short line. She’s been saying that she’s going to email the school to complain about him not getting more lines.
Thing is.... this assembly is first thing in the morning after registration.
And this mum habitually drops her DS off late. It’s unusual to see him arriving on time.
She’s said to me before that there’s no point trying to get to school before 9am (when morning registration is due to start) because it’s difficult to get parked when everyone’s dropping their DC off. She’s said on numerous occasions that the class had gone to assembly without her DS (because he was so late), and complained about it taking time to get the office staff to unlock the doors to let her DS into class.
She’s also very quick to keep her DS off school for the most minor of things - for instance he was off for 2 days just last week because “he needed a break”.
AIBU to think that it’s probable that the teacher has deliberately given this child a tiny part in the end of year assembly because they don’t think they can rely on the mum bringing him to school in time to participate in the assembly?