mmm thinking about it
old school 2spring to mind.
1 was fixated from 1st day back year 2 and most of ay through year 1 with speaking to teacher in the morning she would park her buggy in the doorway so no one could get past, a sign then went on classroom window unless urgent speak to me after school or book an appointment!
All through year 1 she volunteered as a reading helper to spy on other kids and ork out where her own child was.
All through summer unforytunatly shes on my fb freinds list and one of my freinds is neighbour and bumped into her at libary she intensivly coached her dd as brought entire ort collection off amazon.
September everyone thourght she was barking as she became more needy of teachers time every other day she was in the classroom.
However given fact I dislike her parenting and approach it was found out they had got her childs maths levels wrong typo error and she was placed bottom group for maths when she shouldent be and her dd was behind in reading I think if she hadent pushed her dd wouldent have made much progress as few others dident including mine:(
The 2nd was a freind convinced her child was advanced not being stretched enough. I think her r1 teacher who was also reception managed her and used to pacify her by giving her dd extra reading books giving her impression her dd was above average,
Then when end of trem year 1report came out she rang querying and worried about her childs nc grades/levels when she knew full well they were good.
Start yera 2 her child was on top table, she continually asked and bragged about reading levels. whilst saying she wasent bothered about levels.When she had freinds over for tea she used to look in their bookbags.
Shes finding year 2 teacher hard as shes less time and seemed to hate parents going in and question her as dared to be pushy after 2years of being neek and placid and dident get us anywhere so we left.
I was on pta i joined to get to know people,help schoo/support and was handy for hearing things I may not have heard as many pta were freindly with governers. But dident give dd any elevated status or advantage.
I think theres diffrenence between prominant and pushy.
The same girl played mary in nativity for 2years.
My dd got crappy parts in both 2years and got realy upset.
last year they had primary olympics betwen local primaries 2 from each class to compete against other local schools dd was chosen.
The ones who were picked were quiet and studious not sporty.
School council 2from each class seems really odd people too.
Some mums in dd school worked at the school.
One mum used to go out with her childs year 2 teacher which I would find awquard.
Hubby says im being paranoid but its about perception I think of how that child,you as parents and family are veiwed.
I say this as all the down to earth average parents without rangerover, northface coat were never picked for anything prominant.
It used to be parents evening -you all saw parents in hall.
You could then wander down to classrom look at your childs book, wall work-did say on letter please only veiw your childs work so guess somethings happened.
At new school still working out where pecking order is.
Think i can now identify least 3members of pta and havent monoploised the teacher too much as we new we sometimes have lots questions so try to speak to teacher once a week for quick update and where do i go to get this.
Her new teacher leaving after xmas so going to book end of term appointment before she goes to see how dd getting on as missed their parents evening on october as only just started next one not until spring and year 2sats on may.
Hopefully getting balance right and all the other mums not saying omg whos this new neurotic mum at school.
It does seem less competative and more informal at new school.
Its easy to judge and think most are a pain but some have genuine problems. I really should have got pushy in year 1 not say back and trusted them blindly.
I conclude-reading schemes are pretty crap
omg hated the home visit.
hated the sarcastic snappy notes in the homework diary.
im slowly building up trust and confidence in teachers again as feel badly let down and treated by old school.