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To think this is totally out of order...

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chattybee · 02/07/2018 22:24

DD1 is in year 9. Going into year 10.

Thursday her History teacher took up a meter stick and smashed it on the table into tiny pieces in rage as he yelled at the whole class for someone not shutting the door.

The teacher has hallucinations and anger issues and has taught at the school since September.

DD1 came home in tears as she was terrified since he was telling that the tigers were coming to get them!

AIBU to bring this up in school? DD1 and her entire class were so scared.

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condepetie · 02/07/2018 22:28

Do you know this first-hand or are you relying on what your teenager tells you?

I'm not saying disbelieve her, but I've seen perfectly good teachers bullied out of their career by their students. Speak to the school, if you think this is a real concern, but this seems incredibly bizarre.

FissionChips · 02/07/2018 22:30

Why would a year 9 be scared about some idiot claiming togers would get them?Confused

Sounds like made up rubbish.

Plumsofwrath · 02/07/2018 22:30

I feel like on this website you’re going to get (1)parents telling you that’s bang out of order and (2) teachers telling you to cut the man some slack, don’t you know how hard teaching is or what teachers have to put up with etc etc.

I don’t live in the UK, year 9 means 14yo? I would assume “came home in tears” is some sort of embellishment (that’s what happens after mass shootings where I live), and also that the “entire” class is a bit of an exaggeration. Nonetheless, I think you should report this to the school, that behaviour is totally unprofessional and not acceptable in any workplace, let alone a school.

Don’t know how you know about the hallucinations and anger issues. That sounds like private medical problems - or playground gossip.

FissionChips · 02/07/2018 22:30

Tigers*

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chattybee · 02/07/2018 22:30

I asked other parents too and they said that it was true. Only just discovered someone told that teacher "bugger off you're actually to annoying" and walked out and didn't shut the door.

But everyone else said the entire story was in fact true.

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chattybee · 02/07/2018 22:32

It's the fact he smashed up the meter stick and yelled. That's what he yelled out - since he has apparently got hallucinations. She cried for about twenty minutes after she came home.

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SemperIdem · 02/07/2018 22:33

I’m assuming she was frightened by the level of delusion involved Fission, rather than by the idea real tigers were after her.

However something doesn’t ring true here - is this actually a teacher who has had MH issues in the past who has shared with a class behaviour that has previously occurred during an episode?

FissionChips · 02/07/2018 22:34

And no staff have noticed this odd behaviour?

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chattybee · 02/07/2018 22:35

According to other parents something similar has happened with him snapping a ruler on his knee and breaking down. Not sure on the reason.

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MarthaArthur · 02/07/2018 22:36

Bullshit. You already changed the story from someone didnt shut the door to someone told him to bugger off and walked out of class.

Also schools would know a teacher was hallucinatating in class ffs.

Also your relying on bloody gossip as fact.

HollowTalk · 02/07/2018 22:36

They wouldn't notice it in the classroom.

Given that the OP's child sounds relatively normal, why not believe her?

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chattybee · 02/07/2018 22:36

Staff in the History dept are aware apparently. One of DD1s friends asked about him and they responded with "oh, he's just a bit silly sometimes"

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chattybee · 02/07/2018 22:37

If you read it right, you'd see that I put she said bugger off AND she didn't close the door which infuriated him...

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Teaandbiscuits35 · 02/07/2018 22:37

Call the school first thing tomorrow and ask for an urgent meeting with the head, insist that your DD is there too. Sounds horrendous!

FissionChips · 02/07/2018 22:38

If someone is hallucinating and suffering delusions then of course the staff would notice!

MarthaArthur · 02/07/2018 22:38

Literally all your information is based on gossip not fact.

We actually did have a teacher hallucinate in class once. Once. Due to diabetes crashing his bloods. Trust me the whole school new about it within the hour and he was not allowed.to teach us again.

Oddcat · 02/07/2018 22:42

If he is yelling in rage do you think a teacher in the next classroom might have heard ? I'd ask for a meeting tbh.

ThePants999 · 02/07/2018 22:44

Bear in mind "smashed it into tiny pieces" almost certainly means "it cracked slightly and a splinter fell off".

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chattybee · 02/07/2018 22:48

DD1 showed a photo of the table after he had smashed it and left. Didn't really look like it had just cracked..

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chattybee · 02/07/2018 22:48

Parents have asked and i'm waiting for a response. The teacher hasn't been in school since. On the "cover board" it says he is "ill".

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chattybee · 02/07/2018 22:50

These are facts.

He says how he can see tigers ffs and they are coming to get the class.

Seriously?

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SemperIdem · 02/07/2018 22:50

Well if it is true then your use of “ill” is really rude and insensitive.

TheFirstMrsOsmond · 02/07/2018 22:51

It sounds as if he could well be ill

MarthaArthur · 02/07/2018 22:52

Fact means something is proven. How is parents and childrens gossip fact? How has no other teacher or class thought this teacher was odd. If he lost it and shouted in rage and broke a table and a stick how did no other classrooms hear about it?

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chattybee · 02/07/2018 22:52

The Secretary makes the cover boards. Not the parents...

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