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A school trust has issued a letter to parents urging them to treat teachers with respect after incidents which have seen some mams and dads banned from school grounds.
And in it, staff have outlined the seven things they don't want to hear from parents whose youngsters might have fallen foul of school rules during lesson time.
The points have been put to parents by The Arete Learning Trust which runs secondary schools in Stokesley, Northallerton and Richmond in a letter from chief executive officer Catherine Brooker.
They are:
I've been a Head of Year for many years. I have heard all of these said to me about their precious child.
- "I'm not going to allow my child to do a detention"
- "I don't want my child punished until I know what is happening to the other one"
- "She's usually really good, can't you let her off"
- "I support the school and want good behaviour but..."
- "You have been too soft on the other child"
- "My child doesn't lie and told me he didn't"
- "You can't punish my child when I tell him to ignore what you say."
Anyone admit to saying stuff like this?
Mods -SMB this ! Ive had a mare....
By the same token, teachers do need to be questioned. I was vilified by a maths teacher in year 7 for something someone else did, despite my protestations. I couldn't go to my parents about it as I suspected they'd not believe me for some reason.
End result was me not wanting to go to maths lessons and generally not engaging with the subject as much as I should. All because some uppity f***ing failure got it into their head that I'd done something I hadn't.
So tbh, if I had a kid I absolutely would question the teacher before making any assumptions. I have reservations about their judgement.