To think a parent/assistant should not comment on my child's SATS resuts?

[OneTrickMummy]

She has been helping with reading in Yr 2.
These were DS's results:
Speaking and Listening - 3
Writing - 2A
Reading - 3
Maths - 2A
Science - 3.

I thought this was OK.

She was chatting on the way home from school and she was talking about how much she had enjoyed helping them in class, and she said 'XXX is an example - he did well because he has had so much support from me. It's a shame he is lagging behind on the subjects that really count at this age like writing and maths'. I said 'I don't think he's lagging behind' and she said 'but he didn't do so well in the tests which are done under exam conditions - any teacher can have an opinion on those other subjects'.

Do parent assistants usually have access to SATS results?
Is what she says true
Is DS 'lagging behind? I thought 2A meant 'highish average'?

I feel with her, but worried in case DS is ok in the 'soft options' - oh and in reading due to her magical influence, of course!

Was she being helpful or a strring up-herself bitch?

That is so unprofessional. I'm [shocked]. Tell the teacher - the assistant really shouldn't be talking like this.

Ummm, look, Mabs and combustiblelemon, your perceived advantages of private schools might not best placed on the therad of someone who for all we know has no such choice.....

onetrickmummy
You should be very pleased with your DS. Good results. Ignore "miss stickybeak" from school telling you otherwise!

(I am a year 2 teacher)

Fair enough Blu. It's a pet hate of mine so I get carried away . IMO teachers should be doing the teaching, and the idea of getting assistants in to teach whilst teachers do (increasing amounts of) paperwork makes my head explode.

I regularly help out at dd's school. I would never discuss anything like this. I am often asked my opinion by parents (oddly) and always smile and say fine fine and try to direct them to the teachers. It is not my place. I won't discuss my dd's results and certainly won't discuss any one elses. I have been asked what reading level another child was on by a parent before .
I would say something I think. She is perhaps taking her role a little too seriously .
(btw I know very little about SATS yet, but those scores look good to me )

she should not be discussing that outside of school. Thats a basic rule of being a volunteer/helper whaterver you want to call them

you know that SAT's are really about school, not actually really reflecting on a child anyway, right?
That was what helped me through it all with ds1.
And you know what, he has taken a bit of a U-turn in reading and therefore writing and therefore all the other subjects....and yes, some with the help of the teachers but some of it was the natural developement, somehting clicked for him....and wow, now that he can read better, the world is his oyster....
but we had a lovely teacher in his final 2 primary school years, she was so encouraging and engaging and just really helped my sons as well as my own moral...
but it was her that said to me not to worry about the sats, because it's just one of those "silly" guides that is used to assess a school.

I am a TA and parent helpers are not supposed to have results to SATS. I do not and I am a TA.

totally agree combustiblelemon,

She's stirring. Bet her kid got a 2c and she is