Support thread for parents of teenagers

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mrs shanksi Jun 2020 4:23pm, 2 Jun 2020 10,690 posts	0 mrs shanksi I agree with Fleecy
halfpint Jun 2020 4:36pm, 2 Jun 2020 31,289 posts	0 halfpint So now we all have their email shall we bombard them with emails putting undue pressure on them to perform under challenging circumstances? Or just bombard them with expletive laden emails telling them what absolute arseholes they are?
WA Jun 2020 4:39pm, 2 Jun 2020 6,957 posts	0 WA That occurred to me too HP!
LindsD Jun 2020 4:40pm, 2 Jun 2020 37,380 posts	0 LindsD (Sorry. I feel bad. But only a little bit....)
DocM Jun 2020 4:41pm, 2 Jun 2020 34,812 posts	0 DocM don't feel bad, no one should be treated like that
Bazoaxe Jun 2020 4:44pm, 2 Jun 2020 16,576 posts	0 Bazoaxe I get that the school need procedures but they also need the ability to go off piste as the situation demands. It reminds me of a car insurance claim when someone drove into the back of my wife’s car. Only two weeks after the same thing happened in the same place and before the first was dealt with. The call handlers questions couldn’t compute this situation and it took ages to get sorted between three companies and two drivers that admitted liability.
halfpint Jun 2020 4:59pm, 2 Jun 2020 31,291 posts	0 halfpint So are the letters the policy or do they actually intend to follow through with referral to children’s services? If they can’t take account of circumstances or aren’t actually going to follow through then their policy is a bit shit really. Let them refer to children’s services. I would hope their response would be ‘we have children who actually require assistance, if you can’t support kids appropriately then that’s your f*cking problem. Now jog on’
Grast_girl Jun 2020 5:06pm, 2 Jun 2020 1,160 posts	0 Grast_girl Wow, they're so lovely aren't they? Not even the suggestion that they could support you more, or enquiring about any difficulties accessing the work, or even asking if she's OK.
twinny Jun 2020 5:39pm, 2 Jun 2020 235 posts	0 twinny LindsD, I am horrified by the email you have received. As deputy head at a large secondary school, our communication with parents whose children have not engaged much with work has only been are they ok, are you ok? The work can wait if need be. I cannot fathom why they think that's acceptable and threatening Children's Social Care is outrageous, this is not a safeguarding risk! Rant over....
ThorntonRunner Jun 2020 6:27pm, 2 Jun 2020 3,361 posts	0 ThorntonRunner Agree with all the above. I was chair of governors of a primary that had to academise (we were reception to yr5 and needed to extend to try and this was only way). I hated the more business oriented approach. There are a small number of schools seem to only look at the "bottom line" - academic results and only see the children as an input to their result tables.