Threatening behaviour

[idontgetpaidenoughforthis]

I was threatened by a parent today. Not to my face thanks to my lovely teacher (I'm a TA) who wouldn't let the parent through to see me, I was in the cloakroom supervising coat hanging, but it was along the lines of "I'm going to knock the bitch out when I see her".

I'm both sad and angry. Sad that people feel the need to verbally abuse front line staff of anywhere and angry that there won't be a consequence for this person. They were pacified by SLT and I'm to "let them know if it happens again".

What happened to zero tolerance?!?

Thats appalling both that it happened and that the SLT did nothing. What on earth provoked that reaction?!

Are you in a union? they may be able to help.
I agree nobody should feel that their employers condone this behaviour.

I’d want them banned from the premises at the very least. That’s completely unacceptable!

I agree they should be banned from the premises. If they'd said that about the HT they would be.

I don't want to tell the full story as it's potentially outing. Suffice it to say there was a rushed handover at hometime last week and the parent felt I should have been more discreet in how I dealt with it. Fair enough I can accept that criticism, although they clearly didn't mind the whole class and their parents hearing what they had to say this morning 🤔

But no matter your issue you have no right to verbally arrack and physically threaten anyone. I feel that don't ever want to be alone at opening and dismissal in case they come in. Not because I think I'll get physically attacked (I'm fairly certain it's all talk) but being verbally abused and not being able to respond is horrible and demeaning. It's making me feel sick the thought of it.

I was verbally abused by parent around November time last year. HT did nothing! Suffice to say, events that later followed demonstrated her to be an extremely unsupportive head. I've resigned now and leaving at the end of term. You can't work somewhere where you don't have full support from the management on things like this!