I’ve been BANNED from my son’s school after row… now he’s having to stay home until I can drop him off
A MUM has been left furious after she claims she was banned from her son's school for rowing with staff.
Kerry Riley, 29, accepted that she called the headteacher "a few names" but said the school isn't doing enough to keep the staff member away from her eight-year-old son Tjay
Kerry, from Silverdale, , said she confronted the head at Knutton St Mary's Academy over the issue and told him to fix it.
She told : "I basically told the headteacher that he had the rest of the week to sort things out or I would end up dragging [the staff member] out myself.
"I did call him a few names under the sun."
Kerry claimed that the next day, when she was preparing to apologise for her outburst, she was taken aside and told she had been slapped with a three-month ban from school grounds.
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An email the school sent her allegedly revealed that the ban was due to her "aggressive manner" and "threatening language", as well as saying she swore at school staff.
Outraged, she fumed: "They're classing it as a threat that I had stated I would 'pull her out of school myself'. I was thinking it was a joke. I have issues with [her].
"I’d previously spoken to them nicely about it and they had made a verbal agreement.
"The school basically agreed that they would keep her away from him. Then, he came out on two separate days saying she’d approached him and spoken to him."
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For context, bans of this nature are within the rights of schools if the head teacher feels that a parent's behaviour is a risk for students or staff.
As school grounds are private property, it is down to the individual head to make the decision.
Young Tjay is currently off-school, despite arrangements being in place which allow him to be collected at the gate without violating the ban.
His mum added: "It’s one of them, he’s my son, he’s my responsibility to make sure he goes in. You can’t see the door that he goes in and out of.
"At the minute he’s missing out on school. He got upset this morning, he’s upset about not being around his friends."
The school's headteacher, Paul Berridge, said that it was not usual to comment on individual cases but that safeguarding issues are taken "very seriously".
He said: "What we are not prepared to accept is threats of physical violence and inappropriate abusive language towards staff. In such situations a banning order may be issued to a parent.
"Separate arrangements are made to ensure that the child can continue to be brought to school and dropped off and picked up at the gate, as is the case in this instance."