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AIBU?

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Original poster

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

675 replies

Zzz1234 · 29/06/2018 18:42

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....

OP posts:
QueenoftheSilverDollar12 · 29/06/2018 22:17

You've bagsied yourself a front row seat @shakeyourcaboose 😃 I hate these folk who bash teachers without having a fucking scooby what it actually entails.

crispysausagerolls · 29/06/2018 22:18

ImWorriedAboutThis

Made me lol - thanks ☺️😂😘

SantaClauseMightWork · 29/06/2018 22:18

My DCs will have consequences for this at home too. I am on the teacher's side. This is unacceptable for so many reasons.

kaitlinktm · 29/06/2018 22:18

Those that can, do
Those that can’t, teach

Ooo - not heard that one before. Hmm

qwertyuiopy · 29/06/2018 22:18

Thecrabbypatty One is a paid (supposed) professional. The other a child.

shakeyourcaboose · 29/06/2018 22:19

I'll also bring some Ferraro Roche all this talk of 'ambassadors' is giving me a craving!

LeighaJ · 29/06/2018 22:19

Only on MN can teachers be as cruel as they feel like to children just because 'teaching is hard'. Angry

So that makes them all angels who can humiliate and reduce kids to tears and are justified in that because the kids did something wrong.

They were late, punish them, but don't lose your shit over it in such a horrible and embarrassing way.

Thecrabbypatty · 29/06/2018 22:19

QueenoftheSilverDollar12 budge up at the back there, is there room for a small one?

Teateaandmoretea · 29/06/2018 22:19

Teaching's dead easy, highly paid, low stess and they get massive long holidays queen. It's an absolutely fab career for someone else

MissMarplesKnitting · 29/06/2018 22:20

Jeez I've never been given the option for end of year trips. You're pretty much told that you're going. If you have a form, you're going.

Alton Towers trips are hell. I've done a few, years back now. Funnily enough, kids took the piss and were late, then we ended up getting back even layer because of traffic.

Now we go to other places, closer by.

Smaller trips are fine. Whole school, end of year ones are usually the worst. Demob happy kids, showing off with their mates, you're already knackered and then you have a super extra long day in the heat....it's not much fun.

I'm pretty sure qwerty will love the pgce, I'll look forward to seeing you teach bottom set year 9 last thing on a Friday....

MycatsaPirate · 29/06/2018 22:21

Imagine your child went on a school trip and on return the school said that all parents are now having to pay an additional cost because x amount of pupils were late back, the driver of the coach was going over his hours and they had to wait for a second driver and school needs to cover those costs?

That's the potential risk of pupils being late back on a trip. These trips are planned down to the minute details. They need to factor in everything - toilet stops, someone being ill, breakdowns, traffic etc. So they insist that they stick to a timetable.

So yeah, I'm with the teacher on this one. Everyone on the coach managed to make it back in time bar two. Two who think it's absolutely fine to make everyone else wait for them.

As for going to local places, when we lived in Scotland, our school ran a trip to Alton Towers and the drop off was 2am and pick up was 11pm the following night. Absolute pain in the arse if the trip was delayed for any reason because we all had other kids, places to be the next day etc.

Thecrabbypatty · 29/06/2018 22:22

qwertyuiopy I wonder, do you expect to get for working overtime when it's nothing to do with your actions and everything to do with someone else's? That teacher was not being paid the hours they were late on account of that child, does that make you feel better about it?

SantaClauseMightWork · 29/06/2018 22:22

If my HT got an email saying that I'd shouted at a kid being late for a bus back home, it would be filed in the bin-if that’s what the headteacher wants to do fine, but at least they know about it.

About ten minutes of HT's precious time wasted.

qwertyuiopy · 29/06/2018 22:24

Thecrabbypatty I wouldn’t shout in public at a child, or anyone, because of it.

The job is what it is.

ReginaPhalange20 · 29/06/2018 22:25

You said this wasn't an 'AIBU?' but YABU

RJnomore1 · 29/06/2018 22:25

I have two trips going out this weekend accompanied by youth workers who get paid a pittance of what teachers do and if I heard they were shouting at a child for being late for the bus I'd be taking it very seriously.

If the op said I saw a parent roaring at his two children they'd be told to phone ss.

Why are highly trained, reasonably well paid teachers held to a different lower set of standards on here??

Teateaandmoretea · 29/06/2018 22:26

Have a Star querty.

QueenoftheSilverDollar12 · 29/06/2018 22:26

You're in as well @Thecrabbypatty! Party at my classroom - it'll need to be after our fucking fabby seven week holiday though. Hope that's ok for everyone. I'll even tell the kids in advance they're having a supply teacher for the period. And arrange for the window cleaners to come and for it to be fucking roasting outside. They've got PE just before my lesson too btw. Still up for it @qwertyuiopy? It'll be a blast. I might need to get more seats or we will need to sit on each other's knee as there are 31 kids...did I mention that? And it's a bottom set - I get them because I don't take any shit or nonsense.

ImWorriedAboutThis · 29/06/2018 22:26

crispysausagerolls
😁😘

Teateaandmoretea · 29/06/2018 22:27

If the op said I saw a parent roaring at his two children they'd be told to phone ss.

Wow if ss were called every time someone shouted at a child we'd need 50% income tax

Thecrabbypatty · 29/06/2018 22:28

qwertyuiopy so it's in loco parentis sometimes (parents can and do shout at their kids when applicable) but a professional job the rest of the time? Which is it?

Bearhunter09 · 29/06/2018 22:28

Pity more teachers aren’t like this these days. We might have less unruly teenagers. No doubt the teacher was worried about them. Good on the teacher they sound good at dealing with kids!

SantaClauseMightWork · 29/06/2018 22:29

If the op said I saw a parent roaring at his two children they'd be told to phone ss.
That's paranoia at its best.

Beehiveyourself · 29/06/2018 22:29

Why are highly trained, reasonably well paid teachers held to a different lower set of standards on here??

Because the teachers are defensive?

There so many excuses teachers make...

Too much paperwork
Not enough time
“That” parent
Bad local authority
No money
Unruly children

Some schools/teachers just get on with it. Others whine.

Anasnake · 29/06/2018 22:30

Queen - you need to throw a couple of wasps into that classroom just for bantz