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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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To think DS should have told someone.

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Catnurse · 08/10/2019 15:41

Two weeks ago we had a monumental mess up with a lot of ds college forms attendance following sets being swapped which took ages to sort out and caused a lot of stress in regards to his bursary.

Knowing all this when his Maths teacher did not turn up this morning instead of going to the other maths teacher and saying the teacher had not turned up or to reception so they could be put together as normally happens, ds and the rest of his class sat for two hours in a room and told no one.

Meaning because it is so early in the term one genuine absence for illness affecting attendance could tip us over no bursary again.

Aibu to the tiniest bit pissed I've just sorted all this out and he has sat on his backside and missed a core lesson he cannot afford to missed and botched his attendance up when it could have been easily sorted?

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ElizaPancakes · 08/10/2019 15:51

I don’t understand how one influences the other? Do you mean he gets an automatic notice of non-attendance if the teacher isn’t there? Surely that’s not how it works?

Apolloanddaphne · 08/10/2019 16:13

It seems odd no one came and told them the teacher wasn't coming. Was he aware of what to do in this scenario? Were they all just skiving?

raspberryk · 08/10/2019 16:17

He attended, the tutor didn't. It's normal to not have cover etc in college they will probably email some work across to do by next lesson. It's no good joining another lesson because they likely aren't covering the same thing. He probably could have used the time more wisely but usually the reception etc don't know/care and college students are supposed to sort their own shit out.

NearlyGranny · 08/10/2019 16:22

Perhaps the tutor has to log in and register the students electronically?

He shouldn't be marked absent as he was there, but he needs to pull his big boy pants up and chase it himself. He also needs to realise they must report if it happens again, even if he reports 10 minutes before the end to avoid peer pressure embarrassment!

JoxerGoesToStuttgart · 08/10/2019 16:25

How will this affect his attendance?

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Catnurse · 08/10/2019 16:29

Eliza, yep somehow he has lost a mark. Their attendance is updated automatically on the computer.
No one told them the teacher was not coming so they just sat and played on their phones.

raspberryk thanks that is reassuring, it is a long time since I was at college ha!
Last time they were definitely joined together.

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GemmeFatale · 08/10/2019 16:55

You/he needs to complain to the college. He attended, so this is their problem to solve.

raspberryk · 08/10/2019 19:32

My college and uni all had electronic ID cards and so they would know from buzzing in who turned up.

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Catnurse · 09/10/2019 09:14

raspberryk so did ours.

The plot thickens.
Apparently the supply went to the room that is on the timetable but which they don't use , waited and no one at all turned up so he left.
Some kids did check several rooms and that room several times but then settled in the room they are usually in.

Supply didn't think it weird his whole class was missing.

They've all lost an attendance mark.

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Hiphopopotamus · 09/10/2019 09:17

I’m not sure the blame lies with your DS here. They were in the right room, checked other rooms and no teacher appeared. That’s not his fault and he should probably challenge the attendance mark.

recrudescence · 09/10/2019 09:19

Were they all just skiving?

I’d bet my next month’s pension on it.

starfishmummy · 09/10/2019 09:20

Seems very strange to me. Are you sure he didnt hust skive off?

starfishmummy · 09/10/2019 09:20

just

raspberryk · 09/10/2019 09:29

With the addition info of the supply fail, I would complain and explain the attendance link to his bursary and get it amended. He was there.

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Catnurse · 09/10/2019 09:29

I would think he was just skiving but he really isn't the type and is now texting me from college very upset because he was first in class this morning and has taken the brunt of it from their normal teacher as to why none of them turned up and told they thought he was one of the good ones so he rather upset.

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AmIThough · 09/10/2019 09:32

It's clearly the colleges fault. They need to change his attendance mark.

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Catnurse · 09/10/2019 10:17

The supply has just been in class and said he was in, sat on the desk in the room and not one pupil came and checked as he would have seen them even if they looked through the door.

I have several texts from yesterday from DS telling me they had no teacher, that he was annoyed and what he was doing, that he checked other rooms.

The supply nor their usual teacher believes any of them and does not think it is odd that the whole class was missing and they ALL skived.

My biggest worry is DS has some sn, holds massive grudges and that will now be it in terms of any student relationship with either teacher. He will hate them now until the dawn of time and I could seriously cry.

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