Sending child to school when Head Teacher is a knob

[Nothinglikeachocolatebrownie]

Love a local school but the Head Teacher is quite elitist and rude. AIBU to send my child there? I think it won't affect the teaching so it shouldn't be a problem...

Your child may have very little to do with the headteacher.
However, I think you should choose a different school.

I don't really like the head at our school but it's a lovely school. I'd send them.

I would read an ofsted report and speak to other parents and staff. The head at my DD's school is anxious, legalistic and has zero social skills with parents or children, but the school and teachers are great, so I picked it anyway.

@Nothinglikeachocolatebrownie

Love a local school but the Head Teacher is quite elitist and rude. AIBU to send my child there? I think it won't affect the teaching so it shouldn't be a problem...

Having taught in nine different schools/colleges, I must say not one HT was what you'd call normal. A few were off the scale terrible. They none of them had a clue about staff management. I don 't know if the job turned their heads or it takes a certain type to do the job.

Teachers get taught to manage children but I’ve not yet come across any adult management training. This will be the problem.

Who does the head answer to? I think heads do have a big impact directly and indirectly, otherwise what's the point.
I moved ours because the head was shit, it impacted the school.

I’ve known many headteachers and all except for one were very odd/slightly bonkers. It does attract a certain type as most teachers wouldn’t touch the job with a barge pole. If the school is good it’ll be fine.

We had a head who was very bossy and rude to his staff. There was low morale and high staff turnover and this upset the kids in various ways.

It is something to keep an eye on. Try to find out how many teaxhers leave eaxh year as that’ll give you clue as to their morale. A tracher angry st their boss doesn’t deliver a pleasant classroom atmosphere (eg look at the summer newsletter on the school website: how many goodbyes are there?)