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Share OTT reasons the school asked u to take dc's home!

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Sarah510 · 28/01/2020 12:40

So my best one was - school phoned and said dd was complaining her sweater was "scratchy" - could I come and collect her immediately. Was working 2 hours away... !!!

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IslandTulip · 28/01/2020 12:58

What did you say?

blackteaplease · 28/01/2020 13:05

I've 2 children in primary and another in the attached pre school and I've never been asked to collect for anything other than urgent illness.

I do love a bonkers school thread though so I'm watching this with interest.

DrunkenUnicorn · 28/01/2020 13:05

My son got stung by stinging nettles in y3. No it’s not nice, but not allergic to them and one small patch on his leg.

Had it been at home he’d have been told to give it a rub and it’d be better in five min.

I got called and asked to come in and give him antihistamines and would I like to take him home....

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glitterbiscuits · 28/01/2020 13:20

A hang nail had come off and he ( aged 6) was distressed.
Milking it more like!

RhodaCamel · 28/01/2020 13:27

My 14 year old ds bruised his knee in PE. I got a phone call to say I needed to come and take him to A&E! I said he’ll be fine but they said if I didn’t come and get him they were going to call an ambulance out. When I collected him they pushed him out of the sick bay in a wheelchair!! He happily walked to the car and spent the afternoon on his xbox - I was fuming!

SundaySalon · 28/01/2020 13:30

He did a skid across the floor and tore his trousers at the knee, he was so upset they called me. When I came with new trousers he said his knee would have gotten cold. They thought I would take him home, his crying was so frantic you’d think his leg had fallen off.

Bobbiepin · 28/01/2020 13:35

Dd had a cold. That was it.

ByeGermsByeWorries · 28/01/2020 13:41

Because he (aged 6) had thrown a rubber on the ground because he was frustrated that it had creased his paper (asd) apparently this qualifies as a dangerous and violent episode and i needed to collect immediately....

LemonySippet · 28/01/2020 14:28

I got called up to school to put a plaster on DD. They couldn't apply one themselves, she was absolutely fine, it wasn't a horrendous scratch, she would have survived until after school

happytoseeyou · 28/01/2020 14:36

because he had rosy cheeks!

And they wouldn't allow him back without a letter from a doctor confirming he wasn't ill !!!!!

Ridiculous (and I am still fuming about it)

CruCru · 28/01/2020 15:08

When I was in sixth form, I got stung in the eye by a wasp and they rang my mum to come and collect me. This would have been fair enough but I lived literally across the road from the school (and was 17). Presumably they wanted to make sure I didn't collapse half way across the road.

BananaChocolateLump · 28/01/2020 15:18

Cause his temperature was 37.5. Might be high but not really that high surely?

Apparently he was not himself but that did not explain the bouncy 6 year old I collected...

Pinkflipflop85 · 28/01/2020 15:20

Schools can't win though. We haven't sent children home in the past for minor reasons and the parents have kicked off about it!

Morporkia · 28/01/2020 15:21

My DS (14 at the time) was wearing odd socks. One was black, the other one was black..with a grey line at the top. And it was against school uniform policy. He was wearing long trousers and socks were only visible because he had pulled trouser legs up to show his friend some bruises he had got when he came off his skateboard!

antisupermum · 28/01/2020 15:42

I remember being in Primary 2 (so around 6 years old for non-Scottish folks) and poking myself in the eye with the corner of a crisp packet. Oh the tears!! I insisted they call my mum and sat at the office chairs full of self pity. My mum came round to the school not best pleased, gave ma a cuddle and a tissue and told me to get back to class

Soubriquet · 28/01/2020 15:44

She got sun cream in her eye

I had to come up and check it over and see if I was happy to leave her at school.

She was fine. Didn’t want to come home and her eye, though a little bit red, was fine

antisupermum · 28/01/2020 15:45

On the other hand I once had a call from my DC school to say my son (11) had cut his finger in cookery class, but that it was fine and they were just notifying as per normal protocol. Ok, great. Later on, I got a call from the after school care to say that I needed to pick him up immediately as his finger was still bleeding 3 hours later and they thought it really needed looking at. When I arrived they said "don't look at it. Just go to A&E". He needed 4 stitches. I Well, I went through that school the next day....

TheGreatWave · 28/01/2020 16:16

Not to take home but I had to take a plaster from home as he wouldn't have a school one put on. (ASD)

TwoHeadedYellowBelliedHoleDig · 28/01/2020 16:26

For a cricked neck.

Because he'd stuck a teeny, tiny stone up his nose. That he took out of his nose in reception after I told him to. I left without him!

With a temp of 37.2.

I got sent home repeatedly from nursery and primary for impetigo. Except it's not, it's a birthmark that looks like impetigo - in the end my mother would refuse.

But it's a tough call, isn't it. I'd rather be safe than sorry and assess my child myself.

formerbabe · 28/01/2020 16:33

I had the school secretary phone me because my ds had vomited. I was a 45 minute drive away...rushed to school and found out they'd called the wrong mum. The ill child was not my ds, just a boy with the same first name. I was fuming...secretary seemed to find it funny.

NearlyGranny · 28/01/2020 16:33

Playing hairdressers with her friend at lunchtime and managed to get a 360° brush totally jammed to her scalp just above her ear. She had looooong hair and was 11 at the time and hugely embarassed. Of course she could have done afternoon lessons with a bird's-nest on her head with a handle sticking out behind!

DH got the call, collected her and dismantled the brush by pulling the bristles out bunch by bunch with pliers until it pulled out. School wanted to wield scissors and cut it out!

Redcrayons · 28/01/2020 16:37

DT1 got hit in the face and he thought his tooth was wobbly (it wasn’t). I should take his brother home at the same ‘in case he gets upset’. They were in year 6.

CigarsofthePharoahs · 28/01/2020 16:44

@happytoseeyou my eldest was also sent home because he had pink cheeks!
To be fair to the school, they'd had a scarlet fever epidemic and were a bit paranoid. Ds, of course, decided to milk it and start saying he was tired and feeling warm etc etc.
He was totally fine.

Equanimitas · 28/01/2020 16:47

I had the other way round - child attacked mine at school by hitting him round the head, they didn't tell me about either the injury or the attack, and although he was, unsurprisingly, upset, they left him to make his own way home at the end of the school day. And then they were surprised by the mega complaint they received.

EyUpDuck12 · 28/01/2020 16:50

DD13 had a bruise on her arm... I needed to get it seen by a Doctor apparently. I felt the NHS was stretched enough already without being forced to confirm it was indeed a bruise.... Took her home and she gleefully took herself off to hibernate in bed...

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