Collecting ill DD from school

[ElderMillenial]

Hello... long term poster but new account to name change as can never remember password. Can you please help me see if I have over reacted?

Received a call from DDs school at 2.20 saying DD has symptoms of the cold virus doing the rounds. Can I collect. I say of course but I am 40 mins away. I get there at approx 3pm. The lady at reception greets me but seems unaware of the situation. That's fine... She calls the class teacher who says she is somewhere reception end of the school waiting for me. We walk up and down the hall way but can't see her. She asks me to wait while she looks. I do. In that time I start to think "well old on... if her teacher thinks she's here and reception are unaware then where is she and is she ok as she sounded quite poorly. Then the reception lady comes back and says I think she's in here and looks a bit more. Turns out she is in the assembly room with another class. At this point I say calmly "I have to say, I'm very unimpressed that no one seems to know where my daughter is". As I say that a teacher comes out of the assembly room with DD and bag coat etc. She starts saying how they knew she was in the school with other things such as the reception lady being new and other things that didn't seem relevant. I said "well that's the bare minimum I'd expect, for you to know shes within school grounds" and took her bag and started talking to DD. She then said "well there's no need for that" as if I had kicked up a huge fuss rather than a passing comment and I felt disregarding and invalidating my worries.

What would you do in this situation and do you think I was right to have said something? The lady at reception was very kind and helpful but the teacher/ta was very rude.

Unless they pass away?? Of course people can have a moan but the OP knows herself she was rude ..that's why she thinks she may have to apologise..she was prob annoyed as she had to come 40 mins to pick up when school was nearly finished...if the school hadn't called and just left things till home time there would have been another row I bet because the mum wasn't informed immediately about child's sickness...schools cant win sometimes..all I meant was it's a nothing incident..people should stop getting their knickers in a twist over a non event

Perfect response heads down...

You were rude.

You sound very over sensitive.. switch on the news about the 4 young children from Stafford today then think what you have to moan about

Not reverent at all, children are being killed everyday in war torn countries but again irrelevant.

I personally don’t think you were wrong OP, as at no point in the conversation where you advised she was with another staff member... only that she was somewhere.

tuco I bet you beg wrong.

bet

It was just a cold this time but 40 minutes is a very long time when a child is throwing up and there is no one to look after her. I had an arrangement with a neighbour so DSs could be collected in 15 minutes.

But, unless your neighbour is prepared to guarantee being at home all day every day, you couldn't guarantee them being available, could you, MoreCheeseDear?

I wouldn't expect the office staff to know exactly where my child is unless my child was sat on a chair in the actual office.

But isn't the point that, if a child is sick enough for the school to phone her parents to take her home, you would expect her to be in a medical room or sitting somewhere quiet like the office? It really does seem quite bizarre that a child that sick with something potentially infectious was in an assembly.