To think this is totally out of order...

[chattybee]

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.

It's a school bus meaning the bus comes to school and gets dropped off outside of her house?

Ok you respond to sarcasm but not to genuine advice...

Great thread Op, watch of for those metre stick bashing tigers 🐅

OP, do you trust the school? If you do, send her in. If you don't, look for another school. I don't understand why you have allowed yourself to get drawn in to the teenage drama.

No but presumably if you've just witnessed something really scary in a lesson you wouldn't hang around once the bell had gone to take photos. Our buses don't come until 20 minutes after the bell but you won't find any kids hanging around in the classroom after 3:30 they'd rather be outside having a chat with their friends.

Thanks for the laugh though OP, this thread has been fun to read if nothing else. I'd love to work in a school where we have storage cupboards with meter rulers in every classroom 😁

*out ffs

I think this is a pile of crap

Hey! I have metre sticks in my storage cupboard! I do teach physics tho so use them pretty often.

OP, being off ill is confidential
I cannot imagine that the whole school has access to this information on a board.
Wouldn't it be a breach of confidentiality surely (rhetoric)?

To be honest she should have scraped the hundred billion tiny pieces into an evidence bag. The school will need to replace that metre stick. History is not history without the ability to measure things with a stick..

It's all parents have been talking about for the past couple of days, they've been concerned too, not wanting the teacher in school.
However I think firing him is harsh.
Am I not allowed to be concerned that there was literally a 40ish year old man shouting at a bunch of 13 and 14 year olds "The tigers are out" over and over whilst smashing a meter stick on a table..?

It's just ILL.
Nothing is really a breach of privacy id say

Resballpointpens Don’t let the tigers near them ffs 🐅📏😁

@RedBallpointPens I don't even have a storage cupboard, have to carry my meter rulers around with me 😭

@chattybe I would be concerned too. Because where there are tigers there are always lions and bears

Oh my

😂😂 oh dear. i didn't say every classroom, but they do.
I don't even know if the History lesson was in a history classroom.
She doesn't really hang around, She took a picture after 30 seconds and went to the sports hall to wait for her bus whilst she was still a bit upset.

Ensure all storage cupboards are stocked with these
www.amazon.co.uk/Faithfull-RULE1000-Aluminium-Rule-39-inch/dp/B000C750F6/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ref=plSrch&keywords=metre+ruler&dpPl=1&dpID=31lWtMRjB8L&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1530572737&sr=8-2

Aluminium - will not break for future reference and kneads of any tiger attacks

No but in all seriousness, after a rampage of shouting from a 40 odd year old man exclaiming "The tigers are out" you wouldn't feel a bit odd?
And smashing a meter stick at the same time???

I feel sorry or you 8sleepyducks. A storage cupboard with metre sticks and radioactive sources is a necessity! But don't worry, frillyspiderswillies, there's a tiger proof door on the cupboard.

Seriously tho, OP, do you trust the school?

This story would have been plausable if:

Teacher loses it in class. Its a random one off thing that no one suspected was about to happen. The loudness either sends children out in a panic or its heard in another classroom and another teacher comes to investigate, taking ill teacher out. Children come out of school and tell their parents an accurate account that matches everyones elses account identically. Teacher is told to take time off to seek treatment/recover and no school staff gossip to parents about it.

Why do you keep going on about his age? He is a teacher ergo he is an adult being fortyish has no relevance to his MH issues.

Well, obviously they know better don't they?

They do what they think is right.
It's just I wouldn't really trust him after 5 days. However if they know what's right

Martha didn’t you know being 40 is way more intimidating than being 30?

In a small area like this things spread very quickly. Not much "gossip" happens any more.

Depends how many days it takes to round the tigers up I suppose.