Teacher threw away my DDs bracelet and I'm cross about it - should I complain?

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Title says it all really, she forgot to take her bracelet off yesterday and the teacher saw it and chucked it in the bin!!She only told me on the way to school this morning and teacher wasn't there to have a word with (was in a meeting apparently)

so should I ask her today or just seethe quietly?

I am imagine that possibility is so remote not to worry about it at all, herbie.

Miaou!!

who'd be a teacher?

having to put up with whinging whining parents.

There were plenty of other people over-empathising that I didn't find it necessary.

I am always more interested in thinking about next steps rather than dwelling in the past.

The point is that whatever the OP believed to happen was not something that could be changed. The crucial thing was to know what to do from that point onwards. It's not a fashionable way of thinking on Mumnet but someone's got to do it.

To be honest I'm 99% certain the op was bullshit anyway, so what a waste of time for everyone if so.

How old is the child of the OP? I am confused on this one, is the child at school?

TDWP - I don't believe that was the case at all, it could be said for many many threads but to me it seems this is a straight forwward post for advice on where to go next...

op`s daughter is 7 yr old, irr. i agree child made mistake but teachers action is definately wrong. i schocked by some comments on here by teachers.
no common sense?

So this 7 year old child - when was the child born?

The poster is genuine, if a bit crackers.

OP states she didn't have any dc in 2006 though, so it does make one suspicious.

Fine if she is genuine, have no idea whether she is crakers though - not my call.

Oh no that's just what the profile does sometimes if you don't specify the ages of your children.

ok -

Primark, my suspicions also, which is why I didn't spend so much time dwelling on anger, but on future action steps.

As a teacher, the only think I would throw in the bin is stuff downloaded from the internet, in the secure knowledge that if I was wrong, nothing would actually be lost (a bit of grovelling from me would put everythikng right). I would never put anything of value into the bin. I would imagine that most teachers would do the same.

Sorry, Primark exactly how do you come to that decision?

As one who has been so offended by trollery accusations in the past, perhaps you should state how you leapt came to that conclusion.

She has posted before about having 4 children and struggling to manage finances whilst craving a fifth. That would be strange if she had no children at all.

Have we all been led up the garden path on this one? What a waste of effort, and, in my case, reputation.

Hmmm, intriguing...

"The point is that whatever the OP believed to happen was not something that could be changed"

But it was changed. The teacher said she'd chucked the christmas present in the bin. It subsequently re-appeared, so something changed. Either she fished it out, or it hadn't gone in.

Either way, it's a rum do.

"The point is that whatever the OP believed to happen was not something that could be changed"
Really, scienceteacher? Is it only worth complaining when someone has done something wrong if it can be changed? What licence that would give. (oops, sorry that I stole your money. Well, since I've spent it, I can't give it back so we'll just move on, shall we?)

It seems to me that the appropriate thing to do from that point onward was either
a) if the teacher had irrevocably disposed of the bracelet, to acknowledge the child had broken the rules and then complain to the Head about the teacher's disproportionate (and probably illegal) response, or
b) if the teacher had only pretended to dispose of the bracelet (or, as I suspect, if the TA had retrieved it from the bin), to acknowledge the rule breach and then complain about the teacher's capricious and possibly malicious deception.

Teachers have the right to be treated with respect...until they lose it by dishonest or dishonourable behaviour.