I think that is terrible that they reacted that way. Schools are a service provider and people at schools are community facing. I’m sure like a lot of areas such as health care staff, emergency services, public service etc school staff and teachers face behaviour from people that they shouldn’t have a tolerate, but that’s no excuse for reacting the way they did.

I feel like there is more to this story? That seems like such an odd response to your question. I’d be following this up with the principal.

It may be worth chatting to the principle

Maybe you should talk to principal?

This is a very strange threat to make – I’m not sure how she would follow through! Yes it’s a bit outrageous.

It might be good to talk things over with a year level co-ordinator or assistant principal. They are more likely to know background and have a better overview of situations.

Seems like an odd response for sure. Definitely bring it up with someone else higher.

Report you to who? What a strange response. If this person has a supervisor, it might be worth raising the threats with them.

A school principal is usually the best person to discuss issues with for action. Good luck!

there is a lot of unknown in your post. However, if you are not happy with your treatment, ask to speak to the person above whom you spoke with. Explain that you are not happy/confused with the response you received.

Bit hard to comment on when all the details and comments are unknown but I will add schools can not talk/comment on another parent.

Sounds like they were given you the right information, but in an aggressive manner. They can’t give out information to you about the other parent, no matter who pays the fees. Hopefully you just got that staff member on a bad day, and that s/he doesn’t normally react in that manner.

I wouldn’t have been to happy with that either..

This is really difficult to answer without knowing what the information was about but there’s a way of saying things without being rude and threatening.

I can see where the school is coming from, they can get in a lot of trouble giving information to another parent even if it is about your child’s other parent.

Sounds very upsetting. Sadly, places like schools have very strict confidentiality clauses on their info, very understandable with all the bad people out there

That’s quite disgusting behaviour coming from any school staff. Go higher to the education department.

The school can’t talk to you about your ex. Would you want them giving him info about you? Just communicate with them about your child. Do you have a court order or parenting plan lodged with a court or solicitor? If you do, give that to the school & that might help with the communication issues.

The school can’t talk about the other parent to you & it’s not appropriate to ask them anything about your ex. Stick to just talking to them about your child and all will be sweet! If you have an signed parenting plan or court order – give that to the school so they can follow it and if you don’t have one, I recommend you get one in writing asap! These plans usually help solve any problems really quickly! Best of luck with it all!

Wow. A threat is not on under any circumstances, especially these. I’m absolutely astounded. Are you certain there wasn’t a misunderstanding? or perhaps they perceived a threat from you and reacted very badly in trying to ‘attack’ you? I don’t want to defend them, but it does sound very bizarre that they would be like this. Communication is so important between school and parents/care givers. Maybe the ex can help explain?