Schools roles is it just me that feels

[BITCAT]

That schools/some schools are taking away any rights of parents to parent there children. I was told i had to cancel and rearrange an appointment for my son for dentist work, (baring in mind he is in pain) because a school trip happens to fall on the same day..the appointment has been booked for several weeks and had the letter about trip afterwards. So its not as if i booked the appointment knowing there was a trip on that day. He has also been to the same trip with previous school so he isnt missing out that much and has told me he wants his tooth sorted out.

I had the reverse experience last year. DD's school report cam home with an unexcused absence at the end of the year. When I queried it, I realised the nanny had not called in on a day when DD was ill. But I did think it was a bit od that the school didn't contact me on that day to tell me DD was not there.

I was bloody annoyed with the nanny, but also a bit with the school.

I am, actually, entitled to get myself in a tizz about a conversation that only the school secretary and I were a party to. And I am entitled to rant about it on Mumsnet. And all of you are entitled to give me the kicking you clearly feel I deserve and am well able to take.

But I stand by my last post. I had to get my son to hospital, which is why I didn't ring him in that morning, and when I rang to apologise (at 9.41), she was snotty. And she had no call to be.

I didn't snarl back at her, despite having been up since 6 to get two kids ready, out of the house, kept well behaved at a hospital appointment, and walked to school, and I made sure Ds1 had a snack so his blood sugar didn't drop and make him bad tempered for the teacher, and all I actually did about my peevish mood with the secretary was rant on here. No secretaries were harmed in the hijacking of this thread.

She shouldn't have been snotty.

But you said that you didn't think the school had a right to know why your ds wasn't at school, and that you shouldn't have to tell them. This is factually wrong.

Well, I was in a foul mood.

And you didn't want to kick the cat?

no. She's neurotic enough as it is, if I actually kicked her I think she'd have a full blown psychotic episode.

yes, yes, ok, I've been a bit of a dickhead. Move along, nothing to see here.

You are all very brave! I am a complete cabbage when it comes to The School. dd1 is in P2, and I seem to go right back into school kid/ "Yes, Mrs Patterson"- Perrie mode whenever I have occasion to speak to a teacher/ secretary! I have a pathetic desire to have them like me and think me a fine upstanding paragon of parenthood, and so timidly follow their every instruction like a good girl!

I would be terrified NOT to let The School know if/ when dd1 has been ill- I phone at 8.30am on the dot. Otherwise I might get a detention, or a punishment exercise- God, I am a wimp!!

I do sometimes rant about The Bloody School to DH, but I would never take it up with the teachers/ headmistress, as I am a coward! Maybe it's because it's the same school I went to as a kid!

coldtits we are all allowed to have a bad day, we all have them. With me its time of the month..i must be a nightmare..snapping peoples heads off. We are only human..the fact that you've acknowledged you were in a bad mood and may have over reacted, makes you a much better person. Dont worry about it..i quite often use mumsnet to vent some anger and let the steam out.