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Should I report concerns about teacher socialising with pupil and parent?

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Jblingsmum · 12/03/2026 16:21

My son dumped his girlfriend. So i asked him why. He said he didn't really want to chat about it but he did open up to his dad. He said that his girlfriend and her mother spend a lot time with a male teacher from school together. Football outing and meeting for the odd coffee together. Hes told her she needs to speak to the head teacher. Shes saying she wont. So he dumped her. I cant have my son mixed up in this. It doesn't feel right at all. Im sure this shouldn't be allowed.
If I report it. Its going to look like him.
advice needed

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ImImmortalNowBabyDoll · 14/03/2026 18:37

Jblingsmum · 12/03/2026 18:47

Because he paid for tickets for the pictures.
He paid for her nails to be done. He works on a weekend to treat her and himself. She keeps blowing him out so she can go and see the teacher with her mum
She gets jealous when her mum spends time with the said teacher. I feel like shes jealous of her mums friendship with the teacher.

She's just not that in to him OP and throwing money at her isn't going to make a difference to that. Although I hardly think paying for cinema tickets and one nail appointment is quite the grand and lavish gesture you believe it to be.

honeyrider · 14/03/2026 21:23

I think the ex-girlfriend had a lucky escape as the OP's description of her DS's reaction to the girlfriend makes him look manipulative and vengeful and the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 14/03/2026 22:18

Or she could have been telling him to try and get him to back off.

NormasArse · 18/03/2026 16:36

dizzydizzydizzy · 12/03/2026 16:32

I would imagine most schools would at least discourage this and it may be actually be against the school’s code of conduct they have for the staff. It could fairly obviously create problems eg the member of staff might start treating the child more favourably if they are friends or even if they don’t, they lay themselves open to accusations.

Good grief- a teacher can’t avoid every family who has a child at their school. I have been friends with parents, and socialised as families, with our kids. I’m professional enough though, to have treated all children in my class with the same level of respect.

dizzydizzydizzy · 18/03/2026 17:09

NormasArse · 18/03/2026 16:36

Good grief- a teacher can’t avoid every family who has a child at their school. I have been friends with parents, and socialised as families, with our kids. I’m professional enough though, to have treated all children in my class with the same level of respect.

Read my lengthy post near the start, quoting from a school’s code of conduct.

Obviously I know that teachers and pupils can coincidentally be in tbe same friendship or family group. This is dealt with in the code of conduct I quote.

Boggyjo · 19/03/2026 18:01

This is the sort of rubbish teachers have to put up with.

On Twitter I had a random person send a screenshot of a comment I made to my headteacher. I used a swear word. She suggested I be disciplined!

I blame the press for treating teachers with such disrespect.

Gonners · 19/03/2026 19:00

@Boggyjo .... Please tell us that the swear word was something really shocking, like "We both know that this is a load of bollocks, but ..." or "Some parents are complete bloody idiots!"

Boggyjo · 20/03/2026 06:23

Gonners · 19/03/2026 19:00

@Boggyjo .... Please tell us that the swear word was something really shocking, like "We both know that this is a load of bollocks, but ..." or "Some parents are complete bloody idiots!"

I may have dropped the F-bomb. 😳

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