Was your daughter on a school trip at Alton towers today?

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Was she late for her bus? did the teacher lose his rag at her in the middle of the entrance area? If so is she ok?

Can’t believe what I saw today, two girls were 20 mins late back, yes they should be in trouble but they did not deserve some teacher screaming at them, I was 75 metres away and could hear everything I felt so sorry for the girls. I was in a queue and I wasn’t talking about it to the other people in the queue, I was about to go over, but another teacher did.

Would love the name of the school to make a complaint to. Heat is not an excuse, I have lived in hot countries and never saw a teacher lose it like he did.

I know it’s not Aibu but posted here for traffic....

Ooft that must have been some bollocking if you could hear from that distance!

🗞Late Edition, read all about it!🗞

Shock revelation: Teachers are human after all!
Bystander wasn’t brave enough to speak up at the time.
Now posts on Mumsnet to give all teachers a bad name!

20 mins is a lot to be late I completely see the teachers point in this tbh

It is selfish of them though. To keep all their classmates who have waited for them sweltering on a hot bus deserves a bollocking. Yes it’s probably not a good way of dealing with things but the teacher could have worried they were actually missing and be reacting through stress. Getting shouted at won’t scar them for life for goodness sake.

I hate this snowflake crap. Wants to complain to a school because a teacher shouted. Good lord you should have heard when my teachers lost it at school.

Every sympathy in the world with that teacher. He would have been spending those 20 minutes imagining the worst of those 2 girls, who were in his care, visualising the phonecalls to their parents and his boss, dealing with an agitated bus driver, and having to cope with the fallout from getting back late from a trip.

Imagine those 2 students will be on the banned from trips list in the future.

Was your daughter on a trip to Alton Towers today? If so, please buy her a watch and teach her to follow instructions in place for everyone's benefit and safety.

So the rest of the party where stuck waiting in the heat for 20 minutes while they carried on doing whatever? Sometimes a bit of a bollocking is deserved tbh. The teachers where also probably pretty worried as well as pissed off

Teachers are not paid more for this shit. They could have left at six this morning and had a three hour coach journey. It’s 33 degrees outside. The hold up might have had implications for all kinds of things for literally hundreds of other students and staff.... from traffic to childcare. The teacher had probably been reprimanding over excited and over heated kids for stupid behaviour all day. It’s the end of term and patience has worn thin. Okay, it’s never nice to see a kid get a pasting, but on the other hand it’s hardly the end of the world. If you by some miracle find out the schools name, don’t make a complaint. Everyone’s hot, everyone’s fed up. Give the poor bastard a break.

And for what it’s worth if my daughter did this I would have no objection to her being shouted at. Im not a shouty person myself either.

Exactly what @lockedoutofmn said.

Anger is often a byproduct of fear.

But the teacher is the professional in the situation. He'd had 20 minutes to think of a suitable response [aside from however many years of teaching experience on top].

Acting in loco parentis should not extend to free range to humiliate. 'Being human' is, frankly, a shit excuse. That was just the sort of situation where being professional counted first and foremost.

MN is full of teacher-apologists, they can basically do what they want and it's completely understandable.....

The op translated into - I was too afraid to go over in person but I am terribly brave and will make a keyboard complaint....

Teacher was probably terrified. If trip involved teens old enough to go to Alton Towers, they are old enough to tell the time and old enough to get a bollocking for being late.

Cut teacher some slack. Please?

But the teacher is the professional in the situation. He'd had 20 minutes to think of a suitable response

I imagine those 20minutes may have been spent wondering when to execute the emergency lost student plan. When to report missing to security, to police... how they would tell the parents.

What a dickbag for not spending those 20minutes meditating, right?

Agree with herethere. Teachers seem to be the only professionals that can get away with all sorts because of shit excuses like they're only human (as are the two girls who were late). Did he stop to find out why they were late.

20 mins late back as a teacher I would be absolutely beside myself with worry

Haha at teachers they can do what they want! Maybe in 1970 not now!

No they really cannot do what they want these days. In a totally unrelated scenario, after witnessing some of the frankly gross and bratty behavior of kids visiting the pool I use this afternoon and the way they speak to their parents, some could do with a good shouting at.

Human or not, 20 mins late or not, hot and tired etc, shouting isn't necessary. I know mumsnet is the YAY TEACHERS club but there's no need for screaming and shouting at a child like that.

If you don't have enough patience to control your rage around children, you shouldn't be a teacher.

Right Rowena and would you scream at your students and humiliate them? Because that would be acceptable if you were beside yourself with worry

They should have had a bollocking, 20 minutes late while the rest of the class who could be arsed to get back on time waited either on a hot bus or stood in the sun is completely unacceptable.
If you were that bothered you should have said something at the time rather than now taking up judgement as a keyboard warrior.0

Don't feel sorry for the girls getting a bollocking, feel sorry for all the other kids kept waiting on a sweltering bus, the staff and driver also kept waiting and the parents waiting at school. Plus you may have only seen a snapshot of what may have happened that day.
Ever been in charge of a school trip op ??

It is absolutely drilled into students on school trips that they cannot be late back. If they'd timed the return journey to miss the worst of the traffic that 20 minutes could also mean the parents could be waiting longer on the other end as well (as well as extra unpaid time on the teachers working day).

Anger is often a byproduct of fear.

Lose two teenagers for 20 mins in Alton Towers - have they (a) been kidnapped by a psychopath, or (b) decided to go on one last ride and got stuck in a queue that turns out longer than it originally looked.

Hmm...

if they are old enough (apparently) to go off alone, I expect they should be robust enough to take a bit of a dressing down for pushing the boundaries to such an extent:

The teacher may not have conducted himself perfectly but he was almost certainly freaking out about the missing children.
The girls were late and held up the coach. Their own daft fault. Shouting isn't the end of the world.