Parents fighting in playground

[Kelsoooo]

My daughters school was on the local news the other day because the head teacher had to send a letter home asking "please leave family and friendship feuds home, or we will have to ban parents from school grounds"

How depressing is that?

The story goes that two groups of parents had a fight and were spitting at each other in the reception play ground and had to be broken apart by the teachers.

How vile and disgusting?

Anything shameful about your schools?

prob lost her licence!

She doesn't drive to school any more, but I don't know the ins and outs, our children aren't in the same year.

Two parents threw punches in the classroom when dropping their children off. This was a Year 1 class.

Apparently one of them had taken the others parking space.

my kids school has a regular PSCO presence to prevent a certain group of parents fighting.

its all very childish, they fall out with each other all the time and it usually ends in threats to knock each other out.

Depressing indeed. I overheard a parent this morning (and she hasn't got dulcet tones by any stretch of the imagination) saying to another "...so I shouted FUCK OFF at him as he left. Honestly, the kids were crying..."

Really?

We had two mums rolling about in the floor after an event at the school. Too much booze consumed but the head had to separate them!

I have a close relative who teaches in an inner city primary school.

There has been a fatal stabbing outside the school gates in front of pupils (a relative of a pupil, the fight started on school grounds and ended up in the street), and an armed siege involving a parent in a flat directly opposite the school. There are fights almost every week in the playground at pick up time (drop off is apparently quieter for some reason?).

Its a completely different world to the school my own DC go to. The worst we've had is some cold shouldering after one mum had an affair with another mum's sister's husband!

When DD was at nursery there were some kids who had parents not allowed in the building and the Head or Admin staff had to bring them out to the playground to meet them.

Awfully enough, these posts reassured me somewhat.

Generally the school is good. And I feel totally awful for the wonderful teachers in reception who had to break it up. The two teachers involved are just lovely and everything you could possibly want in a teacher for kids that age. So them around violence just seems as abhorrent to me as having the kids around it.

Also found out this week, a mum has been sent a letter asking her to stop "making lewd remarks" about the only male teacher there.

He is rather dishy ....