This irresponsible lady teacher!
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Hallo from germany! I just need to vent a little bit. One lady teacher of my son has done something I can´t excuse. Or am I wrong?
Well, lately my son was kept in school at the afternoon because he had missed one maths test. She was supervising him in an empty classroom. Suddenly the care-taker of the school rushed in and asked if the Mercedes standing in the schoolyard belongs to her. "No, why?" The car stood exactly on a drain the care-taker had to work on (clean or something). Nobody knew who was the owner. There was nobody else in school.
So the teacher and the car-taker went out to have a look. Of course, my son followed them. I have to mention that he´s 11 yo and not tall and strong, but rather slim and that day even looking younger because he wore his his short Lederhosen.
The lady and the care-taker tried to push the Mercedes away. They pushed and propped quite a long time, my boy standing at the side and just cheering them on. But the brakes were locked and the car coulnd´t be moved at all.
So they decided to try and slide the Mercedes to the side by lifting it up by hands. They grabbed it at the back bumper and started to rock it up and down. With such a big and heavy car and only two adults, that couldn´t work. And then the teacher suggested my son to help heaving the car! He took a grip at one of the wheel-cases at the backside of the car and helped seesawing the car for around ten minutes.
I think that was absolutely irresponsible of the lady to let my son do that. Think of what could have happened. I´m still not talking about his leather shorts that got dirty and oily from the car and had to be sent to a chemical cleaning.
Or am I wrong in my rage?
Please let me know.
Yours, Renate
No, I don't think you are wrong. What if the car had swung on top of your child? Why didn't they just call the cops? That seemed a very dangerous thing to have your son trying to help move a car.
Not only would I be upset if my child were put in such a potentially dangerous spot, I would be livid if I were the owner of the car! There had to be other ways to find the owner and take care of it.
Hi! Well, to be true, I don´t think they lifted the car so high that there was a danger of a tip over on my son or so.
They just bounced it to get the wheels off the ground and then slide it to the side.
No, I´m thinking more of that simply being too hard for a young boy.
I myself helped several times at cars, mainly because they were stuck in parking-lots and had to be carried out, but I´m tall and quite strong and always let my son simply watch us adults.
I think at least she has to pay the cleaning of the leather shorts, or what would you do?
Why are they carrying cars? Don't they have tow trucks? I'd be livid if I was you and I'd be livid if I was the owner of the car.
You aren't wrong, and I would talk to the principal or administrator of the school. In my opinion this goes beyond confronting the teacher, I think the head of the school needs to know what she did. It was dangerous and irresponsible. The teacher was supposed to be keeping your son after school, not wandering around helping out a custodian. Was she supposed to be giving him extra math help, or was he making up the test, or was he being punished by staying after school? Whatever the reason, he and the teacher both belonged in the classroom only.
Hi, no he simply had missed one test and he was making it up.
Why did they so? I could imagine that they thought they would be strong enough to bounce the Mercedes. That lady is very resolute and my son just reports that she said: OK, it´s a large car, but let´s lift it at the backside, we´ll have it away immediately.
Of course, my son seems to have been very enthusiastic. And perhaps he didn´t want his teacher to regard him as a small "Lederhosen-boy"...
They still had no business trying to move that car themselves or to involve your son in it. No matter if they were lifting the car up or not. It was still very dangerous.
Yes, I´m convinced now. Thank u!
I´ll report
:-))
News!
But don´t get a hearth attack :-)
Been to the (female!) administrator of the school today. We had a discussion on it. The result? Guess, what!
She´s supporting the teacher.
She says: "The car had to be removed and waiting for the police and tow trucks for hours would have been long. So it wasn´t wrong to try and bounce a little bit at the bumper."
But not too heavy for a kid?
Then the teacher interrupted and reported something. I just fell off the chair! Even my son didn´t tell me.
"On our last class trip the bus got stuck in sand. All the kids went out and had such a great fun pushing and pulling the bus around! Especially your son! So I thought I´d let him help. And regarding the test, I gave him back any minute of the lost time."
Well, that´s it.
Lesson learned? One event - two persons - three opinions.
:-))
Yours, Renate
*Life is interesting*
They let kids push a bus? Good grief! I still don't think trying to move the car manually was such a good idea. They could have all gotten hurt.
Having been an 11 year old boy once I'd bet you son thought it was fun or even cool to help do something where his strenght was valued. This kind of thing is generally actually good for boys as it gives them physical self confidence. My gut feeling is that the teacher didn't put your son in any danger at all. Sure she might have been trying something you never would have tried, but that just makes her a little silly, not a bad person.
Oh, I guess it shows that I'm a mother of daughters and not sons! LOL! I'm also not much of a risk-taker myself!
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