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Head accused me of running over a child foot and swearing at him!

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Tjzmummabear · 24/01/2019 21:50

We recently moved from a naice area - to a rural hick town (it's a dump) think quiet little redneck mountain town. I've three kids and my eldest is 13. 13 years of school runs ... I've a pgce. I've made successful decisions and don't work as I'm comfortable. I send my children to state schools as I attended a top 20 state school. But the standards today are woeful. Think nits and threadworm. Yesterday morning the head said I'd run over a child called Harry and sworn at him. (Eh? Come again love). Shes a hopeless head. Doesn't speak to or interact with children. Would you make a complaint?

Never been treated like dirt before. =( would u send children to a decent prep school?

OP posts:
WhereAreAllTheUsernames · 25/01/2019 07:28

Eh? Come again love made me giggle 🤭

Alloftheboys · 25/01/2019 07:30

And this is why you shouldn’t lick pritt sticks.

RedForShort · 25/01/2019 07:47

How do you accidentally become a pimp?
I'm not too sure. I admit I found his claim of the accidental nature of arriving in his profession a tiny little bit hard to believe. (Though it appears being a seller of drugs as your job previous might be one of the causes. Illegal drugs that is. Not like a pharmacist; i don't beleive many an alma mater of pharmacy school has accidentally pimped a person out nstead of giving them statins.)

Banged up abroad will give all the answers. Not for Henry though I fear.

toddlepod · 25/01/2019 07:48

Well, OP, it's rare for all the MNs to be unanimous in their advice and this is not one of those occasions!

However, lots of good advice on here from MNs with experience of the KGB, failing schools (the rarely cited nits and threadworm index of failure that is used by Ofsted as the gold standard of a school's achievment rating), geographical understanding of the nine standards and the boggy plateaus that can drag us all down and foot trauma.

I am proud that as a MN you were able to turn to us in your dark night of the soul moment. You've made successful decisions and are comfortable, so you say. Ha! We're far too sensitive to a fellow MNs suffering to not read between the lines.

Was it just me or did everyone here pick up on the understated sense of injustice to have been unfairly accused of running Harry over (it was just his foot, wasn't it? He isn't dead, is he?) and swearing at him as well?!

Was it a naice swearword like Phucque Orf or something a little nine standard like 'Bog off'?

Please let us know how your're dealing with the issues as this sort of thing is becoming all too common and once day we'll probably be in your shoes (hopefully not Harry's) and have to deal with it ourselves.

Passmethecrisps · 25/01/2019 07:54

Aw ma gawd! I thought it had been randomly confused for successful, child stomping PGCE poster.

I fear she may be nursing a sore head. Or perhaps has been kidnapped by a villain with a large white cat.

FunkyKingston · 25/01/2019 08:01

Take me down to the 'hick mountain town school where the women are fat and ugly and the men are bonking their secretaries' Won't you please take me home? is this an early draft dt of Paradise City by Guns n' Roses?

Atchiclees · 25/01/2019 08:28

Do not fear @barbiegrl the Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies is safe, it is hidden in the code pgce (lower case for it is not a PGCE).....Painting in sausaGe Captured and safE.

Is that you 007? Shall be the new spook buster Grin

WingsofNylon · 25/01/2019 08:43

Do who else had night mates about threadworms? Thanks for that agent pgce....

I've also woken up wanting pancakes so I'm taking Harry to Hull. Anyone who wants to joing better be a fat housewife.

PasteSandwiches · 25/01/2019 08:58

Threadworms are indeed night mates. There's something reassuring about their itchy love.

Booboostwo · 25/01/2019 09:14

Is this a Dolly Parton song?

Charlie97 · 25/01/2019 09:17

GrinGrinGrinGrinGrin

LIVVI1234 · 25/01/2019 09:39

I'm confused - you are obviously in the uk (PGCE, State school talk) but yet you've moved to a 'rural hick town' and a 'redneck mountain town'. Sorry I wasn't aware of any redneck, mountain towns in the UK pet

ghostyslovesheets · 25/01/2019 09:54

Pfff Hmm

Fraying · 25/01/2019 09:54

Is this a Dolly Parton song? Grin

I'm imagining:

'Complainin' nine till five,
I don't need to work for my livin'
Cos I'm very good
at making my decisions

But that lying Head
is causing me to tarry
Cos he told the world
that I ran over Harry!

Now those cheating dads
are driven to distraction
By their grotty kids
And their constant need for scratching

They've got worms and nits
And their fat mums just don't care
I'm going to take my pgce
And hightail it out of there!'

Somewhereovertheroad · 25/01/2019 09:56

If it is fraying it was over the heads of 99% of us! Grin

Clawdy · 25/01/2019 09:57

I look forward to seeing her on BGT singing Fraying s song!

pilates · 25/01/2019 10:08

😂fraying

Gilead · 25/01/2019 10:24

I think op must be sleeping having spent the night alternately scratching their head and their arse!

Atchiclees · 25/01/2019 12:08

@Fraying Grin

TabbyMumz · 25/01/2019 12:26

Omg, just omg, funniest thread I've read in ages

barbiegrl · 25/01/2019 14:16

@Atchiclees thanks for clearing that up-I was a little worried that it had fallen into the wrong hands! Confused

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 25/01/2019 15:00

Odd odd odd

Racecardriver · 25/01/2019 15:02

Are you in a different county?

AuntieOxident · 25/01/2019 16:24

I think she must be in Harper Valley....

AuntieOxident · 25/01/2019 16:26

Harry’s Dad is chairman of the PTA.

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