Hi there everyone!
Would really appreciate some input/advice/support :)
Its about problems with our little one's First school.
We had a informal meeting which turned into some false accusations by the teacher. (around 9 months ago) What upset us was they were accusations and not impartial observations. Nothing has happened since but despite arranging another meeting to stress how upset we (at the time) were with the false accusations we were not listened to and the meeting was taken control of by the school. And we defiantly felt intimidated. This was a very upsetting time for us as we care for our little one very much and take a lot of pride in our parenting.
Since then we have had another accusation regarding something our little one has said to them.
This next accusation happened in front of our little one and distressed him. He now feels like he has done something wrong. This is not the first time this has happened. Obviously I understand the school have to look into and concerns they may have and IMPARTIALLY look into but this situation and previous situations it does not feel like impartial and they already seem to have made there minds up.
This has happened a number of times now when the school have clearly been "questioning" our little one about things which I think is not having a good effect on him. I mean clearly it is not helping him because our little one is giving them false answers presumably to give them what his young mind thinks "they want to hear" a bit like a math's question what's 2 + 2 + 4 this is concerning to us that they are putting him under this pressure.
Our child does not seem to like the school and we don't really feel its the right school for him and we are considering changing schools.
There is a strong sense that when we sick up for our self's in relation to our child we are not listened to and sticking up for our self's is not really allowed. I mean disagreeing with the teacher about some things. We should be allowed to respond.
We are scared of the school and not sure how to approach them about this.
Should we say we are not happy with the school or just make up other reasons why we want to move? We do have other reasons anyways.
I mean for sure if we were to say we don't think this is the right school for our child they would not like that and we are sure they would do something bad like not let him leave @(!
hope to talk soon and thanks for reading this!
Simone