We moved my son recently from the local (on our doorstep) school to one two miles away.
It took a lot of umm'ing and arr'ing but it's the best thing we've ever done.
He's happy, we're happy and that's all that counts.
Tim
I saw the Head on Friday after school. She simply denied it.
I made it clear that I knew what she had done and I wouldn't accept that sort of behaviour. At all. How can she critise a child for physical contact when she goes hands on at the first opportunity. I may have also called her a dinosaur who needed immediate retirement. I fear I may have marked my kids card even further.
However, while chatting to another parent while waiting for kids, they mentioned that she had dragged a classmate of my lad (so 5 years old again) out of assembly by his uniform for talking. So it looks like she is out of control.
Governors it is. Funnily enough, the chair of governors lives about 3 doors down from me. Time to escalate.
Any update on this?
i work in a pupils referral unit, if i did that to a secondary aged pupil i would be on gardening leave straight away, and i get serious verbal abuse most days of the week. I have a 6 year old, if i saw that happen there would be at least a request to meet witht he chair of the governers and a LA represenative to explain what i saw to them. Completely unnaceptable behaviour
If I was you I would drag the wife and kids into the headmistress's office and then very systematically beat her to a pulp..
When finished, walk out of the school, change your name and take your family to live in a caravan at a desolate and neglected caravan site near Rhyll.. get a job in a local cafe, working for a boss who hates his job and hates you.. start drinking heavily to numb the pain of your existence..
job done
On a more light hearted note,the "RED Darth Vader Lunchbox" does exist.
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