Is it normal for a teacher to just leave...

[mrsdil]

My ds is in reception...i picked him up from after school club yesterday and he had a party bag in his bag. I asked him what it was and he said it was a goodbye present from his teacher. There was a note saying she had left that day.

No prior notice or anything.

Ds doesnt seem too concerned but i would have thought it normal for her to wait until easter hols or something?

Miss Jonstone our art teacher did, but she was with child, working in a convent school, and shock horror not married.

But that was 30 years ago.

Was she newly qualified or still training?
Sometimes when things are not going right during their first year, its easier for them to leave and go back to training rather than fail the whole course.

Or maybe she was from another country and had to return home?

I still think it would have been better to have inform the parents. I wonder if they have arranged another teacher?

She is a young teacher and only worked 4 days a week.

She didnt seem to cope very well and was off with illness for 2 weeks a while back. A lot of the boys in the class are very strong willed and seemed to get the better of her quite frequently (everytime my ds or another child misbehaved she sent them to headteacher)

I feel my ds has not had the best start at school so am hoping he has a strict male teacher to replace old one!

If she was only working 4 days a week, it sounds like she was still trianing to become a fully qualified teacher.

I worked with a teacher in the past (also Reception) and she was basically told to resign or she would fail her course and never be able to teach again. She couldn't cope with the reception class at all which in my experience is one of the easiest classes to work with. The older the children get, the more challenging their behaviour becomes.

I was given compasionate leave when dh was diagnosed with cancer. None of the children (except my sixth form) were told the reason why. I didn't teach for the rest of that school year....for a variety of reasons.

While it is nonal to wait until the holiday, teachers have crises too, and the parents/ children do not always have the right to know why, for non sinister reasons.