my 5 yr old son denigrated by teacher after receiving head injury

[givemepakora]

my 5 year old son received a bad head injury in school. When I got a call to collect him, the teacher who claimed to be witness to me in the school reception area that my son is "...not exactly the sharpest tool in the box...". this was while I was cleaning the blood stains from my crying child and tending to the cold compress to allow the bleeding to stop. To this day, i have not received a written report of the accident from the school, nor have i resolved the pain and anger inside me regaerding the comment made in the presence of a member of the office staff. What, if anything, can be done?

All injuries have the potential to be fatal. If someone cuts their finger it could lead to infection. If the incident happened last year then it's a long time to have been worried. What did you do to deal with it at the time and why are you asking for help now?

Who the hell are rene 'n' george? Can you please answer some of the quite reasonable questions which people have posed to you if you want some sensible advice?

i kept my son off school for a week, and spoke to the duty ewo at that time. i raised the issue of duty of care with the ewo, but he explained that my son should return to school because the head would try to make it look as if nothing happened to my son and that i had no reason to keep him away from school.

When last year?

This...this reminds me of something and I can't remember what. Havent we been here before?

OP- you are reading like a spambot (not that I'm saying you are one, but you sound quite agitated). Are you ok?

At the time i sought legal advice...i,m still waiting for solicitor's call back.

When last year please - just the month

i have ccf(..a long-term heart condition..) and am diabetic

Op, why don't you tell us what happened again? I am baffled, for one.........

You know it's March, right? I'd look for another solicitor if they had made me wait 3+ months for then to call back.

Now this is just descending into farce. The EWO told you the Head would try to make it look as if nothing has happened to your son??? I mean, really? And if you called the solicitor at the time (which sounds like a complete over-reaction) you have been waiting how many months for them to call back??!!

i think it was march...i have the date noted in my file.

Dear Annh, the solicitors claimed to be injury law specialists.

A YEAR ago!!!!! You have been fretting over this for a year???? Yet you can't remember exactly which month it was?

OP, I'm going to take you at face value. That your DS recieved a head injury for which you have had no explanation from the school. That a teacher said something derogatory about your DS at the time of the injury. That your DS has been off school for 3-4 months and you are about to meet with the head for the first time since the incident.

I think you need to be very clear what you hope to get from the meeting with the head. What does the head need to do in order for you to be happy returning your child to school? If there is nothing that you feel will rectify the situation or the head is unwilling to compromise with you, then you need to start looking for an alternative school, ideally with a place starting straight after Easter to minimise his time out of education.

I'f I've got hold of the wrong end of the stick, I'm sorry. Your posts are making it very difficult to follow exactly what has been happening and when.

There's a lot of injury law specialists out there pakora. If they didn't call you back then it sounds like there's no case at all. You sound very anxious to me. Have you been to see your GP and had a chat about all of this?

OK, have I got this straight?

1. Your 5 yo was punched/pushed into a wall by someone bigger than him at school.
2. School called you as the injury merited further investigation but not an ambulance.
3. While collecting your child, a teacher said in your child's presence "He's not the sharpest tool in the box."
4. You took your child to a&e who:

4a. called the school to find out what had happened. 4b. thought the injury didn't merit an x-ray and felt that your 5yo could return to school the following day. 4c. commented that had the injury been in a slightly higher place, it could have been fatal.

1. The Head refused to talk to you on 3 occasions about:

5a. the accident 5b. the teacher's comment.

1. This all happened last year.

If your child is in Reception, you will have been required to sign the accident book in a member of staff's presence. That is a Foundation Stage legal requirement. That will have detailed briefly how the injury occurred, and what treatment was given by the school, including the fact they called you.

As for the teacher comment, did you ever speak to the Head or write to the Chair of Governors?

Oh - so you are looking for financial compensation for an injury which resulted in no time off school and an alleged comment by a teacher.

Wish you'd started with that, I wouldn't have wasted my time replying.

Ah.

An injury ambulance chaser law company. Like one of those ones that advertise on the TV during the day?

my child returned to school a week after his injury.

I think you need to let it go.

Is your child happy and well now? If so, you need to let it go, it sounds like it's eating at you and that's really not a good thing. I know it's horrible to see your child like this, it's over now though and he's OK.