To be annoyed that my DD teacher did this

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Waiting to be dismissed at end of the day and it was raining heavy. Teacher had a very large umbrella. A few children were there including my DD. DD and some others moved and starting moving towards the umbrella to go under and all of a sudden teacher saw and did a turn so that the other children were under it but not my DD. It didn't matter too much as she was going to be dismissed soon anyway but not until she had seen me. I felt sad that she was the only one not under it and the teacher seemed to move with purpose so she couldn't be under it, but the other children left to be dismissed were?

What have I missed here?!

A thread where someone’s child had received a sticker from the HT in morning assembly, it had become lost over the course of the school day, child was upset, parent wrote email to the school office asking for another sticker to be given and was told no, parent was outraged. About half the replies thought parent was bonkers to actually email the school about it and she should just help her child accept that stickers don’t last long and about half thought the school was being mean and it couldn’t be that hard to just replace the sticker.

You are attaching meaning to the teachers actions. Just because she moved doesn't mean she did it to avoid your child.

A thread where someone’s child had received a sticker from the HT in morning assembly, it had become lost over the course of the school day, child was upset, parent wrote email to the school office asking for another sticker to be given and was told no, parent was outraged. About half the replies thought parent was bonkers to actually email the school about it and she should just help her child accept that stickers don’t last long and about half thought the school was being mean and it couldn’t be that hard to just replace the sticker.

Thanks @Katy232425! That's sounds totally normal these days!!! Honestly, some of the parents are harder to deal with than the children!

I'd just mention it to her on the quiet, I'd say I saw what happened you purposely moved away from her, and I don't care wether you have bonded with her or not but you do not treat her any differently from the other children, I will be watching closely to make sure this doesn't happen again and I may also pick her up early sometimes just to check things are going well.

My head teacher would have you in and speak to you about threatening his staff if you did that to one of our staff members.

Yep. Next time there's a teacher bashing thread, that post needs resurrecting to show exactly what teachers are dealing with these days.

Oh. Dear. God.

It was probably an unconscious movement. Perhaps she heard a noise behind her? But the level of obsessive scrutiny that you are subjecting her to and then posting about it online, is just ridiculous.

Politely, she doesn’t actually have to shelter any children under her own umbrella, any more than she has to shelter them all under her own coat, or let them eat her own sandwiches. She could tell them all to stand in a line on the basis that they had appropriate coats on and then stand at a small distance from the line. That would be deemed fine and entirely professional. But she is probably a kind person who doesn’t want to see small children getting wet, so sheltered as many as she could. Or should she be obliged to carry an umbrella that would shelter 30 children? Let’s think about that a second…

I was previously a teacher and heard some pretty ludicrous complaints in my time, but this really takes the cake.

She probably turned because another child was wanting her attention, there a lot of them to deal with! Honestly, at the end of the day while on duty and it's raining and cold, it's autopilot. Xx

Even Mary Poppins would have found it tricky to pirouette and keep all those children under one umbrella!

doubt it was on purpose

yes agree with this, I would observe her with your daughter in future.
Teachers can be horrible too, they're not bloody saints.

Ridiculous!

If the teacher really wanted to be spiteful to op’s child I highly doubt she would do it with a 360 spin and jazz hands to make sure parents are looking in her direction whilst she bullies op’s child.

Yep expect home time to take about half an hour from this point forwards to ensure all little darlings are huddled under and the teacher cannot look around for any other reason so that means she cannot deal with kids forgetting cardigans or water bottles et or speaking to other parents or even shouting kids names who she needs to send home. Enjoy standing in the rain while her focus is keeping them dry not sending them home.