to ask the teacher to move DD as the person she sits next to deliberately coughs / breathes in her face

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DD was really looking forward to school. The first week they were able to sit next to her friends and then the next week they were told where to sit.

She ended up sitting next to a girl who is very disruptive but that isn't even the issue. DD says when the teacher isn't looking she will deliberately get close into her face and cough and pant . When she has raised this with the teacher she has disregarded it saying of course that's going to happen, she's just next to you, it can't be avoided.

I want to tell the teacher to move her but not sure I'm making a big fuss over this. I don't want to be THAT parent.

Anyone doing this at the moment is disgusting. There have been stories of people dying because someone has coughed deliberately in their face, and they have then been jailed for it. Okay, so that's a severe scenario, but it shouldn't be shrugged off just because they're kids.

Definitely speak to the teacher about this. Let her know what your child has said and see what the response it. By the sounds of her reply to your child it sounds like she thinks your child is complaining that she can hear the other child breathing maybe.
If this child is known for being disruptive and your child was not keen on sitting near her to begin with could it be that she’s exaggerating? That the other child is being bullied? Always Good to go jn objectively and hear both sides of what is happening...

It’s been spelled out very clearly to us as parents that this type of behaviour will lead to exclusion. I’d be going into school and waiting to see the Head to insist it’s dealt with properly if I was you.

Don’t just have a word with the teacher. Put it in writing and copy the head.

A couple of years ago my dd was sat next to the class trouble maker in the 2 days she sat next to him he had scratched her arm and ripped the head off a dog pencil case among other things. I phoned the school asked to speak to the teacher and said i don't want to make a big deal out of this but i'd appreciate if she could move my dd to another seat before this gets any worse.
Dd came home that day and said that he had been moved. No dramas.