To report this teacher to the school (help!!!)

[hellolovely7]

Actually NC because a lot of school mum's know me on here and I feel so awkward about this situation but

My DS is in secondary school, he can be a bit of an idiot but I'm not on here for an incarceration of his behaviour. Today he was spending time in the behaviour centre and one of the teachers in there touched him. Impossible to get out of him what actually happened as he has clammed up about it now but basically AIBU to report this to the school due to covid? Surely teachers should be 2 metres away and definitely not touching the students????

For context and not to be a drip feed, he basically came home and was like "Miss xxxx" hugged me today. I was like, wtf, and he was like nah she didn't really hug me but she did touch me mum so ive probs got covid now. I asked him exactly what happened but he said i was making a fuss and she was just comforting him due to having a strop but he said he was a bit surprised that she touched him and he apparently told her she would give him COVID and then she apologised.

Do you think this is dealt with and it was just an error of judgement from the teacher or do you think I should be making a bigger deal? I am genuinely torn

[sst1234]

Carry on like this OP and you’ll have bigger problems with your child’s behaviour than you have now. Well done on prioritising your efforts on punishing the teacher. Teachers have all my sympathies for dealing with bullshit like this from parents.

[whataballbag]

My child's teacher hugged him last week.

He's 6, and his stepdad and I have just broken up, and he was having a little cry in class. It's human instinct. I was beyond thankful that when I wasn't there to comfort him someone else did. Pandemic or not.

[Goatinthegarden]

@QuiteGood

Curious there’s so much projecting in your responses. You’re making this all about you. The OP has made it clear she isn’t reporting it, so any of that anxiety, if indeed it exists, will be in the teacher‘s own head because she did something strictly speaking she shouldn’t have. I take you’re point that many children and adults welcome touch, is it so hard for you to see that many also don’t?

I just can’t see why people are going on and on about this. The non reporting OP has somehow wrecked this teacher’s career. Such hyperbole.

People are aware that she hasn’t reported it, however, accusations from children have wrecked teachers careers, so it’s not really hyperbolic to suggest to this OP that she should think about what effect her actions could potentially have.

Of course, it is possible, that the teacher has done something wrong. If OP really, truly believes that, then she should speak to her son and thenthe school, and I’m sure it will badly with professionally by the headteacher who is no doubt used to these sort of complaints. But it overwhelmingly sounds like her son is trying to deflect her attention from his poor behaviour and the OP would probably be better off focussing her attention on preventing her son from getting himself removed from class and missing out on his academic learning than tearing strips off a teacher who in all likelihood was trying to help her child.

[Goatinthegarden]

*be dealt with by the head, not whatever it was I just typed.