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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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Pipandmum · 28/01/2020 16:50

Bad haircut. It contravened school rules of not having a cut that would draw attention to himself. It was a bit odd shaved up the sides and a bit long on top but didn't think it warranted me having to collect him and get it cut again before they let him back. He thought he looked the bees knees and was humiliated. He was 12.

Arrowfanatic · 28/01/2020 17:01

Because my DD age 8 was crying, I took her home & BAM back to bouncy 8 year old.

However equally I picked up my other dd then aged 6 at the end of the school day only be told that another boy had peed on her head. They had left her with hair soaked in pee all day!! I was livid!!!

Bluearsedfly36 · 28/01/2020 17:05

Got a call about my DS saying he was breaking wind and it was smelly and unpleasant for everyone and could I collect him. I arrived and he informed me he needed the toilet hence the reason it was smelly. They still sent him home.

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IslandTulip · 28/01/2020 17:09

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!

BearSoFair · 28/01/2020 17:11

He had a nosebleed. He was 14 at the time. I could hear him in the background saying "I'd rather just have some tissues actually" so got them to put him on and he said he was fine, he'd only gone to the medical room for tissues and they insisted on calling me! Didn't even have blood on his shirt when he came home at the end of the day so it wasn't a bad one at all!

lotusbell · 28/01/2020 17:21

@BearSoFair, DS12 has had nosebleeds for a long time, annoying but he's quite used to them so just inconvenience really. He started secondary school and within a month he'd had quite a heavy one. After it happened a couple more times, I made an appointment at the doctors and he was referred to have cauterization which he had last July. He had the other nostril done a few months later. Not having him missing school and being sent home when they they do eventually stop, I think it's too disruptive for him at high school.

FrenchFancie · 28/01/2020 17:42

Nothing too bad here - the only one was ‘sore tummy / feeling sick’ but on further questioning it turned out she hadn’t eaten lunch and was in fact hungry.
Mind you sickness bugs seem to rattle round our school all the time so I guess they are cautious!!

TwoHeadedYellowBelliedHoleDig · 28/01/2020 17:48

Got a call about my DS saying he was breaking wind and it was smelly Oh I've got another one - DS was handed to me at the end of the day with a declaration he had "a really irritating cough" and if he still had it the next morning perhaps he'd better be off away somewhere else where the TA couldn't hear him because he was driving her up the wall He was absolutely fine - just irritating.

bruffin · 28/01/2020 17:53

We came back from holiday day before school started DS was covered in bites he also had reactions .i told school this but still got called over when o went to pick him up , they thought he had chicken pox.Had to explain all over again about the bites.

bruffin · 28/01/2020 17:55

Another time had to pick Dd up as she wasn't feeling well. She actually had birthdayitis and wanted to go home

toffeeghirlinatwirl · 28/01/2020 18:29

Mine is the opposite. I picked up my 6 yr old ds one day. He was sobbing with toothache and begged me to take him to the dentist. He wasn't a dramatic kid, whatsoever, and I knew he must have been in a great deal of pain. Managed to get an emergency appointment across town. He had to have it extracted there and then. I asked why he didn't he tell the teacher. He said it had been hurting from morning and she ignored him before snapping "do I look like a dentist?"

She was a supply teacher. The head was horrified when I went in guns blazing the next morning. She wasn't used there again.

BethanyGilbert · 28/01/2020 18:29

This is a funny thread. Does seem to be a if you keep them in school they should have been sent home and vice versa.

Sunstar16 · 28/01/2020 18:33

I had to phone a parent because a child scribbled all over his on face with a blue Sharpie. He wanted to look like he had the Joker's smile and was inconsolable because we couldn't get it washed off.

Itsagrandoldteam · 28/01/2020 18:40

They got me to collect my son because he had rosy cheeks. He had just come back in from lunch on a very cold day. You think they would have waited an hour to see if the redness subsided. He was 4 or 5 at the time. In fairness they did have an outbreak of slapped cheek, but his cheeks had returned to normal before we even got home.

Dancingontheedge · 28/01/2020 18:46

Well, you get what you ask for!
When I started teaching in the early 80s, most of these scenarios would have been unthinkable. But parents got more demanding, schools became far more accountable, common sense started to dwindle and now here we are. Staff don’t take risks of any sort because the consequences are so unpredictably drastic for them.

It was a reactive response by schools, if everything is an 11 on the AnxietyOMeter, then this level of insecure wittering is going to increase.

Pippapotomus · 28/01/2020 21:37

My sister had a phone call to collect her ds from school as he felt sick. She arrived to find him quite confused as to why he was going home and said he felt fine and never said he was sick.

She found out later on the parents WhatsApp group they had an afternoon trip out and didn’t want to take him.

Pippapotomus · 28/01/2020 21:45

On a lighter note I had to collect dd2 once in yr1,the classroom had windows looking out to a wooded area, and she could see a fox cub wandering around. She had a massive fox phobia and was inconsolable. To the schools credit they fitted blinds for the next day.

Sofacat · 28/01/2020 21:45

I got a call from the school to tell me dd had hiccups, they wanted to know what they should do . Absolutely nothing, was my answer.

LBOCS2 · 28/01/2020 22:21

School phoned to tell us that DD1 had complained of being too hot, they'd taken her temperature and it was only a touch high at the moment but when they took it in half an hour they fully expected it to be high so perhaps I should start making arrangements to collect her.

I hadn't realised we had Mystic Meg on reception at our school up to that point

deareloise · 28/01/2020 22:26

I can’t believe a kid got sent home for farting.

AllNewThings · 28/01/2020 22:48

A wobbly tooth!

Wasywasydoodah · 28/01/2020 23:00

Better that schools call rather than not. Back in the 80s things weren’t all that good. On a residential trip in yr 6 a group of us (staying in the same caravan) were treated for headlice by the teachers. One of them burned my scalp washing the stuff off with water that was far too hot. Got told to be quiet and noone informed my mum until i got home.

anon2000000000 · 28/01/2020 23:02

He had very dry lips from the cold and bad weather. Well the lip had cracked ever so slightly so could I come and collect him.

I wasn't happy.

DukeChatsworth · 28/01/2020 23:11

Got a phone call at work once to say DD had fallen and grazed all her face. That it was a mess and she might need medical treatment.

Drove 30 mins from work worried sick. Went to reception and before I went to the desk I saw a TA I knew so I told her I was here to collect (DD’s name). They went to get her.

Bright eyed happy smiley DD with coat and bag was handed over to me without a mark to be seen and all eager for what exciting thing we were off to do since Mummy was taking her out of school special!

So I went to the Receptionist to ask what was going on. Much worried faces and calls revealed that they’d mixed up DD’s name with another girl in a different year but same first name!!!!

Cue much sheepishness from receptionist who’d called wrong mum (me!) after I explained I was now taking unpaid time off work to rush there.... and a very disappointed DD who got sent back in to finish her school day

redastherose · 28/01/2020 23:20

When my eldest DD was around 8 I got a call from school that she'd had some bumps come up on her arm and she needed to be collected. I rushed there out of work to find her with a few small bumps. Too her to the chemist at the end of the road who said it was a very slight reaction to something she'd brushed against and I could give her some antihistamine if I wanted. I bought some and promptly returned her back to school to great outrage from the receptionist that I would dare to return a perfectly healthy child back to school. That particular school had form for ringing up at the drop of a hat and demanding that you removed them ASAP.

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