Basically, a teacher was behaving in a rather bullying way to one of my children. Teacher clearly thought DC wouldn’t be able to tell me or wouldn’t be believed because it’s a special school, but DC was put in the wrong placement- DC was meant to be going to a small setting for anxious, yet academically capable students, but before the intake, they changed the profile, (totally new school) and they were in with peers who were ever so different to DC in terms of their learning, emotional and social capability. This teacher was a bully to DC, sexist too- reprimanding and humiliating them that their sports outfit was inappropriate and calling me to tell me that thusly, they were deliberately disturbing the (much older) opposite sex when it was exactly the same issued to the all students , and DC is a y7 pupil who doesn’t have an ounce of flirtation in them! My DC came home in tears that the teacher punished them for having a sore and swollen joint which “disrupted the sports lesson” and forced them to use it anyway (ongoing genuine and painful medical complaint of which teacher was well aware) and had ridiculed DC and gotten into their face and frightened them in front of everyone. DC described how unkind this teacher could be to other students too, especially those that didn’t have the capacity to complain.
So I did complain. Formally, and very strongly. I had to attend a meeting to give a statement to the local authority and to the school management. I also changed DCs school. But the original school newsletters still get emailed to me, despite my reminders to remove me from the list. A few weeks back I had one that said this teacher was not at work and was being covered. Recently I got one that said this teacher had left to take up a new position. So, do I take it that they were suspended while the complaint was investigated and that they have tactically resigned? Or that they were dismissed? However, AIBU to feel really pleased that this person isn’t working with these vulnerable young people any more? Or am I just a mean bitch who hounded someone out of their career?