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

[Sarah510]

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... !!!

Relative of mine has a child with ADHD and autism, but school insisted he was perfectly fine and wouldn't support applying for an EHCP, despite the fact that they were regularly phoning each morning and demanding that he be collected due to his behaviour. Ultimately relative got fed up and, every time they phoned, asked if they were formally excluding him: when they said they weren't, she refused to collect. So they started phoning saying he was unwell. Mother duly went in to collect, but if he clearly wasn't ill she left. Finally the school conceded that maybe he did need an EHCP, after all.

@Equanimitas sounds similar to my nephews old school. The final straw was the senco phoning the consultant at his hospital to request they increase his medication to the maximum possible dosage. They were told that isn't how it works and no they won't keep him drugged up for them to cope.

My brother was so accident prone we used to call him Mr Bump one day the school rang my mum and said he needs collecting ASAP he's run into a tree and banged his nose.
My mum went to the school and there's my brother with two black eyes a broken nose and a cut lip really upset he ran in to a tree apparantly he didn't see it .
My mum took him to A&E and they said to him hello again your always in here aren't you! On the way out he fell over outside on to a metal stump thing and smashed his knee open. He went back in.
Years later he now wears very strong glasses for his eyesight.
We're both in our mid 20s now and laugh about his accidents all the time

Not school but my SN son was at a regular activity that takes place in a university, small group, organisers know him pretty well. I got a call to say he had trapped his fingers in a toilet door, DH was already on his way for pick up anyway. Phoned him and he was 5 minutes away. By the time he got there the first aider (not part of the group) had called an ambulance. So DH had to wait with ds until it arrived.

Luckily it was an unusually quiet time for the paramedics who were lovely, said it wasnt broken, gave ds a full once over and a tour of the ambulance before doing a "discharge with advice".

DS loves medical stuff, and had only recently been round the paramedic training unit at the same university (arranged by his group) and was delighted!!

I once got a call from school to bring my ds a pair of socks. I was positive he had put them on that morning, I work in the school as a lunch time supervisor so took him another when I went to work. The little sod had taken them off in the car because he couldn’t get them to fit right.

Like pp from experience we know which parents will kick off over the smallest of injuries, so they are always informed saves the teachers grief in the long run.