Would you pursue this with the school?

[Cristall]

I found out during the Easter holidays that DC’s teacher left suddenly a fortnight before the holidays started. Nobody was informed until the email arrived earlier this week. The teacher had only worked there since Christmas. There’s a replacement teacher taking over after the holidays.

I’m concerned that the teacher left so suddenly. My thinking is that if nothing was amiss the school would have made him work his notice, at least until Easter. The fact he left so suddenly makes me think he’s been sacked for some unknown incident.

Would you ask the school for clarification? Do I have the right to demand it? At the very least I want to know if he quit or was sacked - and if he was sacked, why.

This is another of those "Why did you even bother posting this?" threads.

OP, if you only wanted answers that agreed with you, you should have put that in your post.

Your response to this news is frankly irrational-I think you would seriously benefit from someone neutral to talk through such things with.

Do you have a tendency to catastrophise?

This has got class WhatsApp hysteria written all over it

As someone who spent 22 years as a teacher I always knew that some parents have a really low opinion of teachers

But to read the comments from this hysterical,

unhinged poster saying that she would be happy to hear that the teacher in question is seriously ill or has had a family tragedy, because she only cares about her child? I'm speechless.

OP, you need help.

This happened in our school in 2018 and it was very different.

The kids started sending round a link one evening and within 24 hours the school had contacted parents.

School and police (it was sometimes joint letters) said no evidence that he’d used photos of pupils and school offered counselling for any child feeling the need to talk.

He’s now out of prison and operating a burger van a couple of hours away. Some of the teachers told the kids that they’d driven up and seen him which I found pretty surprising (telling kids about the visit not the burger van)

Look at it a different way, if you decided (legally) to remove your daughter from school, would a teacher have the right to come knocking on your door demanding to know the ins and outs of your life ?

You sound entitled.

You think a significant incident came to light 2 weeks before the holiday, that the school instantly dismissed the member of staff and miraculously found a replacement to start after the holidays? Get real.
It takes weeks if not months to carry out an investigation, even if they had been suspended the school cannot legally employ a new permanent staff member as the suspended staff member still legally has their job.
You have no right to know anything unless it directly affected your child (which you would certainly know about by now).

To be honest there is no link for people to send around at the moment. You'd only know about it if you'd been told. I google him often and he's somehow managed to stay under the radar thus far.

Guaranteed she wouldn't be

So what happened to the Autumn Term teacher?

I am assuming this is a Primary school, in every primary school I know, and I know lots, the class teacher greets and dismisses the children in the playground. Are you saying that for two weeks you didn’t notice it was a different teacher? Or if your child uses wrap around that another parent didn’t get on the class hot line and say “where is Mr X?”

mind is blown that the OP was previoulsy employed as a teacher!

Pretty sure now this is a wind up

Left at Christmas, with a letter saying he was going to another job and wishing him well in the future. Totally different because there was an explanation. The lack of explanation is what’s suspicious.

OP, what outcome do you want?

Is the issue that he might not have been up to the job, (in which case, he’s gone), or that your autistic child would have preferred notice, or just that you also struggle to process change without a full explanation of facts?

No. I’d be less concerned. Because 90-something percent of sex based crimes are committed by men, and the vast majority of violent crimes too.

My husband left his teaching job very suddenly when our 5 year old was diagnosed with cancer. Which was absolutely no one else’s business.

I want to know that my child hasn’t been exposed to the sort of behaviour that would lead to sacking. That’s all I care about. I had great concerns about this teacher to begin with, and he’s departed suddenly so I’m wondering if he’s done something that I need to be concerned about.

Well then all they have to say is “Due to personal circumstances”. To say nothing at all is highly suspicious and worrying.

If a man or woman had committed a violent or sex crime against your child that led to his dismissal from a teaching position, you would have been informed.

You have not been informed.

You’re not going to get to know anymore than you do.

If the school were going to tell you anything more they’d have done so already.

They’re not going to change that no matter how much you think they should.

I’m not convinced I would have been informed. The school would try to cover it up. They already tried to cover up that the teacher left - they didn’t inform me for two whole weeks.

I'm bowing out of this thread now. There's absolutely no point in replying to the OP!