As soon as we get it the car after school, my 8yo daughter starts crying and shouting about her day. This has happened everyday since she went back after Christmas holidays (was a couple of days a week before that)
Some things she says:
- A boy on her table is constantly messing around and she can’t concentrate.
- Another is blowing raspberries and spitting all over her.
- A girl keeps copying her and when she tries to hide her work, a boy on the other side reads out her answers to the other person.
- The teacher has their favourites and they never get told off. A girl told her, ‘no one cares if me, xxx and xxx are horrible to you, we can say what we like.’
- There are a couple of children in the class with additional needs, a lot of the teachers time is spent trying to keep them under control.
- The children who are always naughty, get rewarded when they’re not naughty. She’s questioning why she bothers to do well.
Lastly, she has been pulled to the floor by her hair by one girl and body shamed by another (different times).
My daughter said that neither of them were told off. When I spoke to the teacher about this, he said that it’s in their school policy to talk to them in private, so that the bullies are not publicly shamed.
She is always so stressed after school and yesterday said that she wants to go to bed and never wake up.
She is completely fine before school. She sometimes says she doesn’t want to go to school, but I don’t want to get into a habit of keeping her off.
She does have a handful of good school friends that she sees outside of school, so does have friends at school, but none of her friends are at her table.
Is anyone else’s child super stressed after a day at school?