I was by most, but this particular headmaster took a real dislike to me. I was only 9, by the way. And my mother tells me one teacher at the school actually came up to me one day and shouted in my ear that he didn't like me, then left me crying outside by the road outside. My parents were furious.
That's evil. I would want to bite his head off and spit down his neck if he did that to my daughter. Was this a public school?
Not sure what you call them in the USA, but it was the only state school here I went to...ie, it was a free school. All the others I went to had fees to pay. I was badly bullied at all of my schools, but that was the only school where a teacher was so cruel. I hadn't remembered until my mother told me over xmas, and boy did that sting. My mother says she was furious and marched in and told him he shouldn't be teaching. And I believe she reminded him of the incident some years later when she ran into him in a store. She doesn't let people get away with things like that.
Good for your mother. She's right that he should not be teaching anyone. I would have put my daughter in a fee-paying school if I could have found one for her if a teacher did that. Over here, we call those private schools and we call the state-sponsored non-fee-paying schools public schools, but I know public schools are different where you live.
I was with my daughter last Sunday in a local restaurant when I saw the teacher who had abused her when she was in first and second grades. I thought about confronting her, but I did not want to cause a scene and upset my daughter, so I decided to ignore her. My daughter never noticed her, so I thought it was best to keep it that way. My daughter often talks about this teacher now and the things that she did to her, even though she told us almost nothing while the abuse was happening. Now she talks about wanting to make the teacher go talk to a judge because she thinks people tell the truth to judges. I told her that it is too late for that now, but if anything ever happens to her again, she should tell us right away and then it would not be too late.
I tried to find a private school that would meet her needs after that happened, but I could not find one anywhere near us that would be appropriate, so I begged the director of special education for the school district to move her from that school to any other public school and she did. It looks like my daughter will be going to a private school next year for sixth grade, with the school district's support. It will be about an hour's drive away from home, but it does look like it will be able to work better than any of the public middle schools in our school district. The middle school years are difficult even for typical children, I think.
