Would you move school?

[PSL1990]

My daughter is in reception class at what was our first choice school. We were stuck between two schools and have felt like we have made the wrong decision for a while.

Our issues essentially arise from a few children in her class. There is one boy that regularly swears and when I contacted the teacher to tell her my daughter had come home and said the F word, she told me the bad language in his year group is on a scale the school has never had to deal with before. Several other parents have experienced the same so I don’t trust that the school is dealing with it effectively.

Another problem is a boy in her class who is very physical and aggressive. Last term there was an incident where he had caused so much destruction in a classroom that the children had been moved into a separate room for pick up whilst the other room was cleaned up (I understand something had been smashed on the floor). Since then there continues to be stories every week of someone that boy has hit/pushed/hurt. I know parents have been complaining to the teacher and the head about this continuing and so again I don’t feel as though it’s being addressed effectively.

So my questions are…. Is this very shocking to you or within ‘normal’ expectations of a larger (two class per year group) state school? And would you consider moving your child to another school because of this?

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How will complaining help? This implies that the school is encouraging swearing and violence! I am pretty sure the school will already be doing their best with these students. Teachers do not generally like having to evacuate their classrooms nor do they want the kids swearing! How the local MP could help is a mystery to me unless you are deluded enough to expect them to say 'Oh here is an extra 50k to employ some more TAs'.

Pretty normal now in schools and one of the many reasons there is such a teacher shortage.
Teachers can explain that swearing is not okay at school, but if it is okay at home then childcare will continue to swear as they think it’s normal.
Aggressive behaviour is sadly common too. There are lots of reasons for this and again, teachers are limited in their ability to prevent it.

I agree.
No one in their right mind wants to be a TA though. The money isn’t enough to live on and you are abused physically and verbally by children and parents.

This sounds like every single primary school I have ever worked in. This is very very common now, a lot of children are coming into school with high SEN and behavioural needs and unfortunately the gov are not supporting us to do our jobs properly and resourcing/funding schools with enough budget for adults to support these children. It's a real problem.