High Court battle: A mother is accused of harassing teachers (Picture: Google)

A ‘ranting’ mother relentlessly criticised teachers, pursued trivial classroom incidents and was obsessed with upping her children’s grades, a court heard has heard.

The woman allegedly hassled teachers over her three children’s education – once querying her six-year-old daughter’s spelling test score of 19 out of 20.

On another occasion she challenged her nine-year-old son’s grade A, saying it was ‘good but not good enough’.

‘She insisted on interrupting staff in the middle of meetings, speaking over people, haranguing them and, on occasion, screaming at them,’ said the school’s barrister, Jonathan Auburn.


‘She placed oppressive expectations on her children and would admonish both child and school if those were not always met.’



The woman and her husband are seeking more than £50,000 damages from the London school, claiming it backtracked on a deal to give their children sound references after their departure.

They withdrew their children after a ‘stormy’ parents’ meeting where the headteacher allegedly agreed to give the trio solid references.

But their chances of transferring the children were derailed when he told the prospective school they had ‘harassed’ him, they claim.

The school said the woman was ‘aggressive and intimidating’ and called her behaviour ‘rude and inappropriate’.

She allegedly pursued a number of trivial issues, including an incident between her son and a classmate involving a glue stick.

It said no agreement was made but rather the couple were given a stark choice – either withdraw their children or see them expelled.

Both parents denied behaving unreasonably towards staff. They have gone to the High Court for an injunction to stop the school talking to any others and for damages for alleged breach of contract.

The hearing continues.