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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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Monty27 · 03/07/2018 02:27

Have you contacted any governors or made an appointment with the headteacher, en masse with other parents so he is suspended or are the children having an end of term joke?
How come DD had a mobile phone in class? Mine weren't allowed that and anyone who was caught with one had it confiscated.
It all sounds very odd.

justilou1 · 03/07/2018 02:45

He sounds like he is ill. Mentally ill. He is not at school, and it sounds like the school are dealing with it. Definitely report it, and let the school know that you don't want him back until his mental health is stable, but please be compassionate about it.

Pengggwn · 03/07/2018 05:47

No teenager in 2018 said "bugger off". That did not happen.

newyearoldme · 03/07/2018 06:16

It's no wonder the poor chap needs a break if he has to deal with interfering busybody alternative reality gossip-mongering shit-stirrers like OP. Give me Yr 9 in the summer term any day....

MissionItsPossible · 03/07/2018 06:37

I can’t wait for today’s updates which are bound to include highlights such as:

The return of the board (with ‘welcome back Mr. X’ written on it)

OP being a witness to the marks on the desk and the broken metre stick (as if it would still be there after the weekend)

A dramatic meeting with the teacher where he drops tigers into the conversation

Headteacher gossips with the OP who in turn posts something on here that will lead to waves of sympathetic posts for the teacher.

Etc. Etc.

MDFalco · 03/07/2018 06:41

"The tigers are out"

He might have been misquoting Shakespeare, or your daughter misheard.

"But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger." (Henry V - very appropriate in a history class) or
"the mild hind
Makes speed to catch the tiger" or
"O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!'

On days when things were going amiss, I would release my class of Year 6 children and sometimes say to them "cry havoc and let loose the dogs of war" - after I explained it, they thought it was funny. I did, however, carefully pick the class to which I would say it.

mathanxiety · 03/07/2018 06:42

If this happened, the school should have sent an email to all the parents in the class to hopefully calm parents and students alike, reassure everyone that the teacher was getting treatment and to invite anyone who had been upset to debrief.

Your child goes to a school that is very badly run.

As to the five day treatment, that is really between him and his MH HCP. You don't know what the issue is that he suffers from or whether the five days might be enough.

CountArthursgroupie · 03/07/2018 06:47

Why all the hostility towards the OP? The teacher is clearly unwell, and needs sympathy and treatment. However he should not be in a classroom traumatising children, and at thirteen they ARE still children. I hope that your daughter feels better soon OP, and that the teacher receives the help and support that he needs.

Amanduh · 03/07/2018 06:54

Lol. As if. And if this had happened the school would be dealing with it. Watch out for those tigers!

IsMyUserNameRubbish · 03/07/2018 06:58

Teachers are vetted within an inch of their lives, they also see each other in the staff room and have meetings were I'm sure any "mental health" issues would be spotted, if he's as bad as you say, by his colleagues. Also, if he was that loud, enough to splinter a ruler on a desk why wasn't he heard, and would he really risk his job by doing the things you've put here? no im sorry, I don't buy it.

IsMyUserNameRubbish · 03/07/2018 07:06

Don't know how old your daughter is, but unless she's at an age we're she still thinks Father Christmas is real (sorry kids) would she really come home (did she walk home crying, got a lift home crying, get the bus home crying) in tears" thinking "tigers are coming to get them" after all, did she any tigers, walking home, on the lift home or on the bus home? 🤔

MrsRhubarb · 03/07/2018 07:06

I had a teacher like this, school downplayed it because obviously us silly teenagers were exagerating. He would scream at us over the most minor things, and once repeatedly banged his head against the classroom door. It was really unsettling. He didn't come back once he was eventually signed off, but we had nearly a year of no learning because we were all on edge wondering what he would do next.

Pengggwn · 03/07/2018 07:12

I teach some Y9 girls who are convinced one of their female teachers is an absolute lunatic who screams at them for nothing. She doesn't. I've seen her and she raises her voice when she is annoyed. That's literally it.

hobnobsaremyfavourite · 03/07/2018 07:15

Oh we have reached peak teacher bollocks on here
It’s that time of year again
Hmm

Sleepyblueocean · 03/07/2018 07:18

I don't believe a yr9 pupil said bugger off. If you had said they said fuck off I might have believed you. Therefore the rest of it is likely to be bollocks too.

FuckPants · 03/07/2018 07:25

What absolute bollocks.

PattiStanger · 03/07/2018 07:34

Are you in the UK OP?

Maybe this sounds unlikely to most posters but if you're somewhere else in the world Schools might be organised differently

Bibesia · 03/07/2018 07:35

What puzzles me is the fact that, with a teacher showing clear signs of serious illness, it doesn't seem to have occurred to one child to go and find someone in authority to help.

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 03/07/2018 07:36

I think some people are underplaying the effect of having a teacher lose the plot in the classroom to the extent of hallucinating and smashing things.
If this is what he did, and there appears to be enough corrorboration that it is, then it would be pretty bloody scary!
Scary enough that the students would be feeling rather nervous of being in the classroom with him again.
13 is not very old, after all.

Pengggwn · 03/07/2018 07:39

to the extent of hallucinating

How you have inferred from this thread that he is having actual hallucinations I do not know. The OP says he is, but has the teacher or his HCP told her this? No.

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chattybee · 03/07/2018 07:45

And again, she's not scared of the tigers, She was just so frightened of him yelling it over and over

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chattybee · 03/07/2018 07:47

I believe she was talking to a friend, in a joke like way it wasn't aimed to the teacher? DD1s school is very strict on profanity.

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chattybee · 03/07/2018 07:48

What do you mean risk his job? It was a mental fucking breakdown, wasn't really in control

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sailorcherries · 03/07/2018 07:50

But not so frightened that she went back/stayed behind for the all important picture because, as you said, she has calmed down by then.
So in the space of 50 minutes she was terrified ans traumatised, calm and collected enough to think about photographing things and then hysterical and traumatised again.

sailorcherries · 03/07/2018 07:51

Earlier you said a student told him to bugger off, now it was her talking to a friend Hmm

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