Any parent teachers out there?

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I've recently been thinking of enrolling my daughter in the same school that I teach at. Has anyone had any experience of this? Not so sure if it's a good idea of not!

I went to a primary school where my father was a teacher for a few years and it made my life very, very difficult.

I vowed I would never, ever teach either of my DCs or even be in the same school as them on supply.

Difficult with the teachers or other children?

I'm being interviewed for a job at my DC's school next week. Older DC has already left and younger DC will be in year above where the post is. Fingers crossed!

I decided not to send mine to my school for similar reasons to feenie - DS is very clingy and had terrible separation anxiety so that would have been really hard for us both. I would also find it hard not to interfere! I am in Reception though and even if I moved elsewhere in KS1 would still be sharing playground etc so a bit too close. I could also see myself falling out with my friends at work if they ever criticised my PFB! As far as childcare is concerned, I go into school at 7.30am and leave at 5.45pm so that would still have needed sorting out. I also wanted to be able to be a 'mum' to the other parents and not a teacher, and be able to get drunk on parent night outs without anyone raising their eyebrows!

Works fine for me and my children, too. Go for it! Life is very easy when you only have one set of school dates to remember!

My Mum taught at the school I went to for Juniors, and I vowed I would never do the same to my dc.
If you got selected for something you got all the "It's just because your Mum is a teacher" comments, and I felt on a few occasions I wasn't selected for things I might otherwise have been, so staff weren't accused of favouritism.

My friend started teaching at the school her dcs went to (just off days supply, then offered a maternity leave, then made permanent, once older on had gone through, but younger ones still there). She gets a lot of difficulty with awkwardness over children coming to play with her dcs, or her dcs being invited to their friends houses. She said, had circumstances not happened that way, then she certainly wouldn't have chosen it.

Of course, it doesn't really avoid childcare though - presuming you are not expecting them to sit in your classroom for 3 hours a day, outside school hours, while you are in meetings / getting stuff ready for the next day ?

My son was in my school for slightly over a year. It was disastrous for us both. His teacher was useless (whilst there is definitely a personal element to that, she eventually left under a cloud) and my son - who is admittedly both complex and challenging - was traumatised by her to the extent of waking frightened in the night (repeatedly) etc and she wouldn't give an inch. But then, as a result of lack of sleep and stress on my part, I didn't handle it particularly well. It was a teeny tiny school and I was in a leadership position. Awful. Eventually I moved son in order to be free to advocate for him (single parent, so no option of passing it on to a partner).

I get on really quite well with his school now. He is still complex and challenging, but my only role is to advocate for him and support the school as his parent and no-one suggests otherwise.

In the wider scheme of things, when he was with me in school, he was very much identified - not deliberately, but because I was well-known in the school and had been there for a long time - as 123's son. Now he is X in his own right and when I go in, I am X's mum first and foremost. I think that is probably the way it should be. This might be less of an issue in a larger school though.

Hmm a mixed bag of reviews... guess I have a lot to think about. Thanks for all your thoughts though!

I'm Secondary and there are loads of staff children in our school. I currently teach 4 dcs with parents who are on the staff either as teachers or support staff and next year there will be 8 of them in my classes, including the dd of our HT. None of them seem to have had any issues with being in the same school as their parents but I think teachers sometimes find it a bit intimidating to be teaching the boss's dd.

I taught dd in N and ds currently attends school I work at. It's fine. Ds had a miserable time at previous school and likes the security of knowing I am around, although we have v little to do with each other during the day. You can behave professionally, children are capable of understanding you behave differently in different areas of your life.

How big is your school ninah? As another poster said, it might be easier in a larger school. Mine is a 2 form entry, so there would be no reason for dd to be taught by me at all. It does worry me that some teachers may feel awkward about teaching the child of the boss!