School communication

[MrsTruper]

Same teacher has on two accasions now told me (in response to something I was not aware of)...."It was in the newsletter" i.e. it's my fault for not reading it properly. I keep all the newsletters from school and I know on both occasions it was NOT in any newsletter or in a text message.

Is it worth getting to the bottom of the poor comms, or is it another one of 'those things' in schools?

Briefly, one issue was regarding lost property, second issue was re reading record books. On both occasions I asked other parents if they remember being told, and they said not.

PS it is only this teacher, last year comms were fine.

The teacher sounds as though she's got a slight impatience with parents attitude problem. But at the moment it doesn't sound worth getting upset about. Life if full of people who can be brusque on occasions. And life's too short to confront them all. But if it's something important like the whereabouts of your daughter, she says she's sure she told you that she was outside on the road and you're sure she didn't, then, when your daughter is once again safe, you can tell the woman that she's got a communication problem. But not until it's a real problem.

Thanks.....the person in question is a male teacher...probably explains it then

Think is probably 'one of those things' but you could pop into the office and say that there seems to be some things being missed from the newsletter, from this teacher, it could be that he is missing the deadline, and so could they parentmail any late messages. Teacher will probably be changing soon anyway.

Thanks.....the person in question is a male teacher...probably explains it then

Probably not.
Sounds more like something that was supposed to be in the newsletter, and wasn't, rather than an "attitude problem".

In my experience if it's a male teacher he will have thought x needs to go on the newsletter and that will be as far as it went. It will then be the secretary, ta or whoever compiles the newsletter s job to put it on by reading his mind!!!

ha, we have a deputy head who does not read what is in the news letters and is rather snooty and seems to think that we know things telepathically.