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.

While I don't agree with the op I would just like to say that
"Getting coats on is not teaching and learning and shouldn't be happening in lesson time."

is probably a teaching and learning experience for a lot of 4yo.

But it does, my class of Y5 regularly trot out to play past the buttoning up and gloving and hatting of small people. We often stop and lend a hand.
And let's not mention the excitement and surrealism that is the Reception PE lesson.

Isn't it better to have a teacher who isn't clock-watching and shoving the kids out of the door at 3.30 on the dot? Don't they need to finish the chapter they're reading or find a suitable point in whatever they're doing to stop working? Of course they could lose a bit of lesson time and stop work 5 or 10 minutes earlier so all the kids have their coats on, bags packed and are lined up at the door so they leave at 3.30 precisely....

Personally, I find it a bit worrying that the OP is able to walk into the school and wander around picking up her children - wouldn't be able to do that at our primary

princessparty, you're not doing your children any favours by waltzing into the class and overruling their teacher. I think you've been bloody rude and have set a bad example for your children, as well as pissing off their teacher.

I am glad to hear that you will discuss it with the teacher, I think you ought to start with a very humble apology and acknowledgement that you handled it badly to start with (though tbh I can't imagine that anyone who would behave that way would be capable of that level of humility...prove me wrong!).

Also agree with whoever it was that said after school clubs should come second to schooling.

See I have the opposite. I was walking up the road the other day to collect DS. It was 3:19 and school finishes at 3:20. Admittedly I was a minute late because the paths were really icy but there was a girl and a woman walking past me at 3:19. At first I thought nothing of it and it was just her but then I got a bit further up the road and it was obvious lots of children had been let out early. So then despite only being 1 minute late DS had been waiting on his own for age probably thinking he'd been forgotten!

'the one time you think "ooh, I'm overrunning by 10 minutes because of the open heart surgery I just performed on that tiny baby/asylum seeker family I just sprung from Yarl's Wood/drowning kittens I just rescued from the Thames- but never mind, the teacher always finishes a bit late" you can bet your big fat arse that your kids will be sat in the office looking cowed and the Deputy Head will be glaring at you over her monocle
'

Actually the two times I have been really late (over 7 years)- a dash to a terminally illfriend many milesaway that hit atraffic jam, and an accident on the Mway that stopped us returning from visiting a specialschool wearelooking at for ds1- were met with understanding and kindness by the schools when I explained.

I've just looked at DDs school file thingy for something else and it says broadly

Lessons finish at 3.40 and, once the children have collected their things and are ready to leave, they will be escorted to the playground for collection...

our school says that although official teaching time ends at 3.30 there will be occasions when it will carry on after that time, so we can expect our DC sometime between 3.30 and 3.40. And I still managed to get to two after school clubs starting at 4 (both of which involved getting DD changed) because I worked out my timings based on the latest I could expect her out BEFORE I booked the classes.
OP, missing some of the warmup for an age 4-6 gym class is not really a big deal, YABU.

That's what I was trying to say, but with many, many more words, pagwatch.

Thank you for replying to my questions about how late they are. So 8 mins? YEs?

I have a solutions [triumphant emoticon]

Send DD into school in her gym kit and no coat. You must easily save 8 mins, if my DS is anything to go by, by not having to get her coat on and off and changing her clothes.

You may even have enough time for a latte and no Stormin' Norman act necessary. There solved.

Next problem please.

Kew. You are amazing at solving problems!

Staying

...maybe but your words are pretty and nice to read

Awwwwww...

You need to speak to the head about it. They might say that 3.3.0 is when work stops yaddy yaddy ya but it's worth a try.

Some schools must have parents who couldn't get their DC into the same primary school.For them it would be imperative that the school lets out on time so they can pick their other dc up.

You still don't seem to have grasped that the time given for school to finish is probably the time that teaching stops and the children will still have to get their coats etc together BEFORE they can come out!!!

umm. I have three children at 3 different schools and DS2s drop off time is up to a half an hour each way.I am sure I am not the only one. People manage without trollying into the class and wanting everything to fit around them.

I suspect so, pagwatch, given that she appears to have learned absolutely nothing from the responses on this thread.

BTW - that is for princessparty, not you, pag. - that's for you.

awww SDTG.
We are having a little bond here I think.

[simper]

Yes - a small, but perfectly formed little bondette. With sparkles probably. And maybe alchoholic beverages later!

You'll start heaving yer bosoms and swooning soon, mark my words ....

Listen - it would take a stronger woman than me to heave my bosoms, Jamie - even under the affluence of incahol!

(pag too, but that's what Period Fantasies are all about)