to just march into the classroom and take my kids ?

[princessparty]

I am SO fed up of them being late out of school when we have to rush off to afterschool clubs.They are supposed to come out at 3.30 and we can just make the 4-6 yo gymnastics session if we leave at 3.30 on the dot.
So today i just walked into each of their classrooms and said 'excuse me Mr X I need to take Y now.' in a pleasant way.I think I'm going to do it every week now
I mean we get them to school on time,they should get them ou on time.

I am waiting for the school to start a "spelling club" for parents

tulip
with respect.
Not everyone is in a postion to teach their child themelves.

Hang on, you'd be 'incensed' to see your children being read to rather than putting their coats on? I really am completely speechless. Oh, that's .

Sorry, I should have pointed out that my children are in years 4 and 5 and are both very good readers, the story at the end of the day is just a time filler that nobody benefits from because they rarely finish that book. I do know how important reading is and the enjoyment is encouraged at home. Both myself and my children are very polite and respectful and don't feel inadequate. My last point on this subject is, no I personally wouldn't storm in to the class to get my children but I do arrive on time to collect them and yes they should finish on time most days. Now I have to go and wait outside their school for god knows how long, and as I look out of the window I notice it has clouded over, surprise, surprise!

My Year 5 DD and her classmates love being read to. So you are still BU IMO.

Jenroy, I think you might want to take a look at the learning outcomes for end of day story time. They include developing listening skills, encouraging empathy and understanding of other cultures and situations, and providing relaxation at the end of the working day. Each of these are of benefit to all children.
To be frank, no teacher is ALLOWED to do time-fillers anymore. Everything has to be justified in temrs of its educational worth.

princessparty. You are bieng very rude to the teacher. Both secondary and primary school teachers have to do a lot of training before becoming a teacher. 3 years doing a degre and then a years PGCE,or they can do a 4 year teaching course. It might sem like 13 weeks holiday in the year bit I know that for some of that time they do lesson planning and other school related stuff. As others have siad before 3.30 is the end of teaching time not the time when they come out of the door.

I would love to be able to pick my children up at 3:30 rather than 3:10 - count yourself lucky!

"If you deliberatly over run on a story it will piss of the dc's parents."

ffs that is just plain daft.
do you really think teachers want to stay late themselves as it all has a knock on affect.
this thread has made me wonder why anyone would be a primary school teacher when you have to deal with these kind sof parents.

i agree with the OP

at DD's school, if the kids are late they get into a lot of trouble.

But we are always stood in the yard for 10 minutes at the end of school, freezing our nuts off waiting for them.

But if you turn up late to pick them up you can guarantee that will be the day they actually get them out on time.

When you've been doing the school run for 5 years you might be a bit annoyed by this too.

As a teacher, if you know it takes 10 minutes to get their coats on, pick up bags etc, you should plan the end of the day so that you get them out on time.

WHAT PART OF TEACHING ENDS AT 3.30pm DO YOU IDIOTS NOT UNDERSTAND?

for the love of god, me me bloody me, and fuck the rest of the world. Great attitude.

And FYI Framey whatever your name is, most of us actually do have children, therefore do know what school pick up is like, you fool

Getting coats on is not teaching and learning and shouldn't be happening in lesson time. When the bell goes is the signal to start these things. I agree that the lesson should be ended, and the children ready to go to the door.

I can't be doing with teachers who treat the bell as the time start finishing the lesson; they should have finished on time so they can dismiss children immediately.

As a teacher, I fume, waiting in corridors with my class for teachers who don't know how to organise their time and are still packing up when the bell has long gone.

Rant over.

no need to shout blackjack dear, or 'whatever your name is'
Bad day?

The OP has behaved dreadfully and the school needs to look at its security procedures if anyone other than an employee can walk openly into a classroom.

oh also, if teaching time ends at 3.30 how come on some days the kids are all outside coated and bagged on the dot of 3.30?

Perhaps if teaching time is until 3.30, pick up time should be 3.40, so parents aren't standing outside for too long.

I'm shouting, a thing I rarely do on MN, simply because it is disgusting how dismissive rude and undermining so many parents seem to be of teachers and schools. Your attitude is appalling.

I have been doingthe pick up for 12 years now.

Teaching ends at x time. The chidren then come out once they have their things together . Sometimes it will be 30 seconds after, sometimes 10 minutes after.

What is not to understand.

I figured it out after ..ohh... months I think. I have now got a coat and gloves to keep me warm and an umbrella if it rains and everything..... [genius]

Apparently this is a radical and challenging concept to some

I'm a teacher too blackjack, I've been teaching for 6 hours in schools today. Admittedly I only teach small groups but I certainly am not undermining and dismissive of teachers. (unless they're shit which a fair few are in my expirience).
But, I bust my ass to get to school to pick up DD on time today and am left waiting in the cold for 10 minutes. That makes me late to pick up DS which makes me mad.

Riv 'Thats why swimming lessons are sued by millions of parents.' soundslike a headline from teh DM PMSL

I was in schoollast week,and the class ran over by a good fewminutes becuase they'd comeacross someusefulinformation about crystals and their porperties and wanted to share it.

What's not to like?

If I an stand in the playground with a very autistic small boy running hyperactively around and at people,a buggy to push as I chase him and another ds1 whose AS means he takes a goodtwenty minutes to organise his things each day,then I think there are very few who geninely cannot.

be a few minutes late to gymnastics,they won't mind.

it makes it even more disgraceful that you have this attitude.

What a bunch of princesses you seem to be. School is about teaching children, not keeping parents warm, or accommodating afterschool activity schedules, or making sure you can pick up all your children "on time". All those things are your responsibility. Nobody elses.

Occasionally lessons do finish early, if all the learning objectives have been covered, then the kids can be got ready. Seems strange that as a teacher you fail to understand this.

Spot on BlackJack. There seems to be some kind of attitude of 'school is something we are forced to fit in around our day' going on here. Stand in the cold for ten minutes. Take extra layers. Take an umbrella. Live with it - in some countries your children would be out at work and would never have seen the inside of a school, let alone have to go to one by law.