My son is at a primary "outstanding" school.
Following a situation with his School Report -for other reasons -and errors on it we had a zoom meeting with his teacher, HT etc.
I don't know the teacher well, she has never contacted me or spoken to me all year except to tell me "all is fine" - over 4 times in the meeting she referred to my son as "Well, he's a typical boy" "Well he's typical boy, most boys don't listen" "He's a boy, and we expect that sort of behaviour from them"......I'm glad it was on zoom -because in person I would have lost it.
I repeatedly asked her following this why her expectations of boys are so radically different to girls. She has "well the boys in my class are typical boys, they don't like writing and don't necessarily engage as much as the girls, they don't like reading ". - but he does he is an avid reader, he has lots of "cars and trains" but also has dolls and cuddly toys.
Yes, a complaint is going to the trust and governors -it goes beyond that. As he had an SEN plan and not one of those promises has been done or met September - March. He is deaf in one ear and has a problem with the other but hears "clearly" if you stand in front of him and speak and his SEN plan states he must have full face on when being given instructions etc and no calling across the room to him, she also commented on his "not listening" and said he often "ignores her" if she calls him from inside / outside........... -argh..... but the boy comment has engaged both his father and I. The school refused 1:1 a year ago, as he was meeting all targets and expectations -and refused to apply for an EHCP. But we have already applied for an assessment as we have no faith they will meet his needs. If he is not doing something -at age 5 I expect to know as a parent before July.
So angry that we are going to look around another school tomorrow. But the "boys" comment argh................that is just the icing on the cake.