To press charges against this parent?

[Rosegarden10]

I've name changed for this as obviously this is very outing.

On Friday, my child attended a school disco. Whilst they were at the school disco, another parent broke into the school and was banging on the hall doors to get in. When she couldnt access the hall she kicked the glass door and broke the window smashing the glass. The children and adults inside were terrified and they had to evacuate the children in an emergency lockdown procedure.

My child (and the majority of the other children) are now traumatised. My child doesnt want to go back to school tomorrow. The police arrived at the scene however it doesnt appear as though they arrested her as she the parent was on the parent WhatsApp group trying to justify her behaviour an hour after the incident.

Can I press charges against this woman for the trauma she has caused my child and the other children? I am so angry!!

You think a do-gooder from the PTA would have calmed this woman down? Gave her a cookie and some sweet tea perhaps?

Sounds really frightening.
But the police judged that she didn’t commit an offence.

The school can (and should) ban her from the site.

All you can do (and the school can do) is to reassure kids that the school kept them safe.

If OP has this response on MN what is she like on FB?

And we have the eleventy hundreth person coming on to explain the exact same thing that has been explained eleventy hundred times.
If you've never had dealings with police or the law, it's unlikely that you don't know the legal terminology or indeed the process.

The OP clearing doesn't know and was asking! what she could do, if anything.

Ooooooooookay.....

To be honest a cupcake from the pta would mean I'd be putty in their hands

Well a do-gooder from the PTA would be like a red rag to a bull to me Stealth!

I’m sure if the nursery worker Lisa Potts is reading this she will be extremely surprised to learn that she died in the machete attack as someone mentioned earlier, seeing as she is still very much alive.

Our pta are lovely

You're shocked at an OP swearing on the internet, but you think there's nothing wrong with a real life deranged lunatic rocking up to a kids disco making threats to kill?

Please highlight the post in which I say I think there’s nothing wrong with the incident described in the OP.

When we run any after school event the doors are unlocked and an adult is stationed at each door, to stop kids disappearing as much as anything else. There are two internal doors to the hall and two double doors from the hall leading to the field which are generally opened for fresh air. All doors manned by staff or approved helpers.
The situation you describe wouldn't have escalated the way it did if the angry parent hadn't been locked out but dealt with calmly and appropriately.
Unless you are in the USA I'd say everything was badly handled by the adults.

Agree with your comment. Very similar in our school.

Roger and very pleased I think we should all be about that too.

Has the op flounced? Haven't seen anyone speak (type?) like such a knob in a while, the claps were a high point 😂
This thread has made my morning!

Some major unanswered questions here. What would pressing charges do? And how shit was the disco they heard banging? More importantly, what had the head done to piss this woman off?

I have zero legal knowledge but suspect the police don't really care about some woman kicking off over what I suspect is something trivial. There are much bigger things going on after all!

Yes Roger I was very surprised to read she had died. As I tenner she got bravery awards etc well deserved of course .

I'd say when they all get into school tomorrow, the teachers will have a hard job stopping the gossip and trying to teach! Of course, there will be ones who was 'right beside her!' Poor teachers will have their work cut out containing the excitement. The initial shock will have passed, and all will be good in Townsville again.

"what had the head done to piss this woman off"
I'm going to be accused d of being boring here but this just isn't funny.

Indeed RogerBannister Lisa Potts was only severely injured as were some of the children in her care - that changes the whole point doesn't it?

Oh no actually it doesn't.

You don't need a gun or to be in the USA to face danger as a teacher.

Schools need to be careful and implement lock down procedures in the face of any adult whose behaviour is threatening even if posters on MN just think it's a overreaction.

I remember*

OK maybe that was an overreaction, sorry pp.

Op when you didn't get the response you wanted you started to react by name calling and swearing?...
when the parent in question didn't get what she wanted she reacted!

Too amusing
You could push for a public order offence but it probably be best to think how that may affect her dc's.

Rosegarden10 you sound like an angry shouty lady. I'm considering pressing charges for trauma.

Yes, my unsavoury thirst for gossip wants to know what the whole hooha was about too! I suspect that's also why one repetitive poster kept demanding to know whether she was still on the Whatsapp group

No and it is ludricous to expect that, the school could press charges for criminal damage, and threatening behaviour.

I think maybe you need to take a step back and think. How you react to this will affect how your child reacts to things in life. Make a wise decision, encourage resilience, it makes life easier.

I was the WhatsApp question , because I'm a nosy bitch who wants to know what was said