Healthy eating, but skipping rope ban in the play ground.

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I have never seen a school like my GS's school in Brisbane. Parents are not welcome in the classrooms, ever. The children sit outside on the ashphalt in the morning, while the teachers organise the things that need doing that day. It might be Brisbane but it's cold and windy on winter mornings, sitting on the ground and the ashphalt never looks very clean. Youngest GS's teacher comes along at the last minute so parents never get a chance to speak to her. GS7 gets a lot of orange lights (warnings) and red lights (harsher warnings). He got an orange light at the beginning of the year because every now and again he would lightly tap his stomach usually about three times. He would do this when he was anxious, which is most of the time as he says he is worried about getting into trouble. One of the orange lights this week was because he couldn't see where his book was, it hadn't fallen on the floor behind him. DIL went to see his teacher (by appointment) and was shocked to see GS's change. He was very quiet and withdrawn with his head down when his teacher was there. After the interview DIL sat outside with GS as they still had five minutes before the bell. A teacher came along and told her they didn't want parents and children sitting there (not very far from GS's class) and she would have to move along.

GS9 has always been very unhappy at this school, he got a RTR because he went to speak to his younger brother. That is not allowed and RTR means Reaponsible Thinking Room and the child will have to spend their lunchtime writing out why they need to be responsible. He worked very hard on a project last year. DIL herself a teacher was very impressed with the effort he put in. She was shocked when the teacher said it doesn't matter how much work he did, everyone gets a C. This year his teacher said GS needs to put in more effort.

Neighbour's DS 8 threw a stick and accidently hit a girl and was suspended for three days. He really is a nice child who plays often with GSs. He told his mother after school one day he was hopeless and wished he was dead. His mother didn't know at the time GS had seen him sobbing at school during the day.

30 years ago, DS2 broke his leg playing football in the lunch hour. Did I complain? Did the school ban football? Not a bit of it. In those days, it was 'just one of those things'.

I should add that he was in the first year of secondary school when the accident happened.

I should add that he was in the first year of secondary school when the accident happened.

That's shocking Faye . It doesn't sound like a school at all more like a prison camp or a detention centre.

Poor children. Is it possible to move schools?

Things have changed drastically (for the worse) in 30 years though anno . At one time an accudent was just that, an accident but now thanks to scum lawyers we have this "where there is blame there is a claim" culture, making schools very wary of any activity where there might be even the slightest chance of a child hurting themselves.

It's a very rigid school, gillybob never anything nice happens, most of the teachers appear to be dishing out impositions as well, they suck any enjoyment the children might get. Many families have taken their children out this year.

They are finishing at their school in a week and the best thing out of all this they are moving and leaving Brisbane. The boys will be going back home with me (their parents are following when packed and ready) and going to the small country school with their cousin and they are very, very excited (so am I). The school is lovely, there are 52 children and three teachers, the Principal and a teacher's aide. I actually can't believe how things have unfolded. I am counting the days, my other GS who is also seven is so excited his cousins are going to be at his school and the teacher said the two seven year olds can sit together. Two schools couldn't be more different.

Faye that seems like a joyless school.

I did get rather frustrated with dd when she ranted on and on about dgs's teacher not being strict enough because they let him off of bad behaviour when he turned it around and then behaved. Not quite sure what she wanted. Considering that she grew up with positive reinforcement, I'm not quite sure why she cannot do it herself with her own child. But, we won't go there.

It is interesting that the schools push for healthy lunches, then hand out sweets as rewards, and inhibit a lot of physical play on the playground. It hardly makes sense.