Chapter 2: the book addict rejoins the world

[Jaquaia]

They stayed at J's parents on Saturday night and she was cutting out dinosaurs. It sounds like his mum turned her back for a few seconds

[Suzi]

OOps! It's so easily done!

[Jaquaia]

We know that, but she's claimed if A went to school with her hair in that state, it's 99% likely social services would be involved as it's neglect. My sister in law confirmed that's a load of rubbish

[Suzi]

As an isolated incident and if she had been taken to school with a "omg, she was cutting dinosaurs, MIL turned her back for 2 seconds and this is what she did!" I can't see it being an issue.... Unless SS are already involved and she has something to worry about?

[Jaquaia]

No. They were when T was a younger as it turned out one of her friends was on the sex offenders register and from what I can gather, she knew this and still had him around the children so SS needed to make sure T hadn't been interfered with... it's probably the only time J has been angry with her, as he didn't have a clue. I think it was an excuse to have a go at J as I don't think her reaction would have been the same if it had been her mum looking after them. My sister in law said today that she's had to ring more than one parent to apologise as their child has cut their hair in her class and J said he had one when he was doing his teacher training placement that cut her plait off, plus his mum was a teacher for 45 years. J explained how safeguarding as a teacher worked and how something like that would just be logged, and reminded her of how long his mum taught for, and her response was "Well she should have known better". This coming from a woman who sends her children to the grandparents ready to be taken to school having not given them breakfast...

[Suzi]

Didn't know J was a teacher?

[Jaquaia]

He was pressured to quit his PGCE before he completed it

[Suzi]

That's really sad...

How are you today love? It's today Talia goes isn't it? You OK?

[Jaquaia]

It's what it was like for him. She pressured him to give up cricket too and he was a very good under-15s coach and a decent player. I understand as dickhead pressured me to give up my degree.

I'm still snotty. I'm ok but feeling very guilty but my mum insists it has to be done as she can't cope with her on her own and we can't risk things going wrong with Toby. I've not even got her stuff together yet.

[Suzi]