Have you ever recognised your school from a thread on here?

[ASauvingnonADay]

😈 I've often wondered! Some posters share so much detail, that I wonder how often someone from the school can recognise or identify them...

I think a lot of schools are much the same. SLT who grab at fashionable ideas to get through Ofsted, teachers who think they are completely outstanding and funnily enough the students stay much the same year on year. There are an awful lot of schools in the UK, and then add in the all the posters from around the world. Unlikely.

Yes, not just school but the kid too!😳

Yes, a couple of times and it was brilliant to realise that I wasn't alone in how I was feeling about a few things! Great to get some support and share information or understanding. Taking a bit of the power back and feeling less downtrodden. Out of loyalty to all the good guys I wouldn't have wanted the school or offending person to be named and shamed however, or for any trolling to go on - that's obviously a step too far. However, cases of mistaken identity also happen - you think it's your school and a particular person, only to realise otherwise later in the thread - so I agree with elephantoverthehill too. Is this a question from personal experience ASauvingnonADay?

There's a fairly prolific poster who is a parent at the school I work in. We know each other on here but I haven't tried to work out who her kid is. (It's a big school). She's extremely kind and non moany, thankfully.

No personal experience, but I've read so many threads from parents that must be so obvious if you teach them/they're at your school so was curious! Don't know what I would do if I read one though. I imagine it'd be infuriating if the details were inaccurate!

At which point you would be free to give your own honest opinion Sauv?

I haven't, but if I mentioned some of my old school's traditions it would be obvious. My secondary education was at an independent school.

Yes, definitely. There are quite a few posters on MN whose DC go to the same school that's usually described in a particular way. One DC in a thread had been identified by the teachers who were being moaned about. Another time an OP was starting at the school and was complaining about something. I PM'd her and told her I had identified the school and she disappeared from the thread.

Yes and mentioned it on the thread too! It was a post complaining about a school tour and that half the classrooms were empty. I explained why on the thread and got chatting with the poster via PM. It all ended very amicably.

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