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WillowTheWhisp · 10-03-2005, 07:31

From past experience I've found the head to be rather inaccessible. There was an instance last year when my daughter's school bag was half-inched whilst she was doing PE. She spent the whole of the next period (English) on a hunt for the thing (under teacher's instructions) and missed out on a double period of English. I didn't particularly think this was satisfactory so I went up to the school to speak to someone about it. I asked for the head but was told to speak to the head of year. I attempted to speak to the head of year but he simply directed his answers to my daughter and told her he would discuss it with her the following morning! I just gave up in defeat.

On the other hand the Primary School, which both of my children attended and the youngest leaves this year, has a totally different attitude towards parents in general and problems like this in particular. The head teacher is also very approachable and although I grant you it is a much smaller school (less than 400 pupils) she seems to know every one of the pupils by name.

My daughter doesn't want to change schools. She's been choosing her subjects for next year and looking at what she is aiming for in life and has discussed all this with the various teachers concerned and seems to have a good idea of what she wants to do, where she wants to go and how to get there. she doesn't want to disrupt all that. I admire her for that.

10-03-2005, 07:31	#14
WillowTheWhisp Resident Waffler Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Accrington, Hyndburn Posts: 18,142 Blog Entries: 14 Liked: 14 times Rep Power: 1062	Re: Things that make you go "uh?" From past experience I've found the head to be rather inaccessible. There was an instance last year when my daughter's school bag was half-inched whilst she was doing PE. She spent the whole of the next period (English) on a hunt for the thing (under teacher's instructions) and missed out on a double period of English. I didn't particularly think this was satisfactory so I went up to the school to speak to someone about it. I asked for the head but was told to speak to the head of year. I attempted to speak to the head of year but he simply directed his answers to my daughter and told her he would discuss it with her the following morning! I just gave up in defeat. On the other hand the Primary School, which both of my children attended and the youngest leaves this year, has a totally different attitude towards parents in general and problems like this in particular. The head teacher is also very approachable and although I grant you it is a much smaller school (less than 400 pupils) she seems to know every one of the pupils by name. My daughter doesn't want to change schools. She's been choosing her subjects for next year and looking at what she is aiming for in life and has discussed all this with the various teachers concerned and seems to have a good idea of what she wants to do, where she wants to go and how to get there. she doesn't want to disrupt all that. I admire her for that. __________________