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What's the strangest call you've ever had from your child's school

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listsandbudgets · 17/02/2021 13:52

Pancake day always makes me remember this one.

You know that cold feeling when the phone goes and its school? Is my child ill, hurt, in trouble etc. etc.

A few years ago mine went on pancake day. The school receptionist said "we're sorry about this Lists but Lists-junior has been hit over the head with a frying pan"

(turned out thankfully it was only a very light, one and they'd been having a pancake race when he tripped, the boy behind him tripped and somehow in the tangle the frying pan whacked him on the head!)

Has anyone had a stranger call than that?

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Tankflybosswalkjam · 19/02/2021 01:34

I got called to one side to ask was DS adopted. He isn’t. But apparently he’d decided (in Reception) to say that he had another mummy and she had died. And please could I confirm because if he’s adopted then the school can claim pupil premium.

I was open mouthed. And further investigation revealed he had said his other “ommy” had died - which was true because that’s what he called his other grandmother, his Oma. (German)

But in any case I pointed out that he is virtually a clone of his Dad, and also that he’s a twin and the school thought to ask her? No.

GrandTheftWalrus · 19/02/2021 01:57

DD goes back to nursery on Monday and I wonder what she's going to say about the fact I'm pregnant with her sibling.

She told everyone in a shop "mummies having a sister" - we don't know gender.

And the woman in morrisons got told that mummy has a baby in her tummy but it's going to come out her bum!

So nursery are in for a treat!

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 19/02/2021 01:59

he is virtually a clone of his Dad, and also that he’s a twin and the school thought to ask her?

Grin
mm40 · 19/02/2021 02:17

I would consider yourself lucky, I was having golf lessons in school and the club flew out of my hands and landed onto someone’s head...

Another time we were throwing stones off a bridge into the river below and somebody foolishly stood underneath it and it glanced off their skull.

Thankfully it was a private school didn’t enjoy sharing such details with parents and we all took in in our stride.

PainterInPeril · 19/02/2021 02:53

@MNHQ Please could this thread go into Classics?? I'm supposed to be asleep but I have been totally engrossed, laughing out loud at some of these! GrinGrin

BoKatan · 19/02/2021 06:34

@MNHQ I agree this needs to go into Classics.

NotFuckingLadyLike · 19/02/2021 06:59

A friend of mine.

Please can you collect your son. He is refusing to come out of the swimming pool and the lesson finished 30 minutes ago. Blush

sashh · 19/02/2021 07:55

Sometimes, I am so fucking glad that I work with teenagers.

I thought that until some decided to buy each other sex toys for Xmas. The SIMS report was interesting.

snoodle1 · 19/02/2021 08:31

The oddest thing for me was when I got a call from DD's primary school asking me if she was alergic to penicillin because apparently she had accidently been given some. It turned out that in the after school club a teacher had asked who needed to take their medicine and DD, seeing the opportunity to have some declicious strawberry flavoured liquid, said it was her and she went and had two big spoonfulls!

Sirecho · 19/02/2021 08:40

Happened to my mum about my younger brother "if you can get here before the ambulance leaves you can go in the ambulance with him" My brother had got hit on the forehead with a cricket bat, split his forehead open like a burst sausage and a trail of blood from the accident site to the ambulance.

drspouse · 19/02/2021 09:01

Dear parents, if you heard the fire engine come to school this morning, don't worry. The toaster in the Y1 classroom did catch fire but all the children were evacuated and are all fine if a bit hyper.

drspouse · 19/02/2021 09:08

@NotFuckingLadyLike

A friend of mine.

Please can you collect your son. He is refusing to come out of the swimming pool and the lesson finished 30 minutes ago. Blush

I had this at swimming lesson. My DS has SEN but gets on really well with one teacher who was in the water. He was messing about - he can swim so was safe but was dodging the teacher in his group but "Pete" who he listens to was in the water. Other teacher: can you get him out Me: well, he thinks this is a joke, and I have clothes on, but I'll try. DS, stop messing about NOW. DS pauses but carries on messing about. Teacher: you need to get him out Me: how, as I'm clothed and he's in the water. Ask Pete to tell him Teacher: we can't do that. Me: that's my suggestion. Teacher asks Pete, Pete speaks sternly to DS and he gets out.

Did they think you'd get changed and get in and chase him?

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Bec21 · 19/02/2021 09:18

When I was a child my mom got given a letter at the end of the day saying 'we think Bec21 has swallowed a coin'.................I had!!!!
Got taken to A&E, said coin moved & started blocking my airway, cue getting rushed in an ambulance on blue lights to a local ear, nose & throat hospital.
On the way, the ambulance hit a pothole & the jolt moved the coin.....it was now headed to my stomach!!!
Cue 2weeks in hospital, x-ray poisoning (from them trying to track where it was) & missing easter!!
Oh & me having to eat cotton wool sandwiches to force the coin through my intestine!!!!
Got sent home to wait for it to come out......my poor mom had to sift through my poo to find it!!!!!

WhatsErFace2020 · 19/02/2021 10:20

A friend of mine received a call from the Head - her 14 year old daughter had informed the teacher she had been off School because she had syphilis but was feeling better now...the Head was calling her mom to find out what the F was going on at home..until the mom explained actually her daughter had had Cystitis 😂

Ringsender2 · 19/02/2021 10:21

@FeatherInTheWind - your DS is in the running to be Frank Abagnale Jr Jr!
@LostToucan - love your DS's style, especially the mass break-out plans

LostToucan · 19/02/2021 10:48

Another DS story (as a teenager in S5 this time).

He liked physics and found it fairly straightforward, which was lucky as his teacher was nice but pretty useless.

One lesson, DS had finished the work and was lounging at the back, no doubt distracting his classmates and annoying the teacher to the point where the teacher said “if you think you can teach the class then come up here and do it.”

Never one to back down from a challenge, he took over the class and taught the rest of the lesson. One of the girls in the class told me that he did a good job too.

WaxOnFeckOff · 19/02/2021 11:02

Discipline at DSs primary could be sporadic. DS "got on the cloud" for the first time ever in his life the day before last day before Christmas holidays. Anyone still on the cloud had to miss the last day movie morning. This was DSs first day ever on the cloud (he was now 10.5) and his "crime" was that when he's finished his maths worksheet, he'd taken out his book and sat reading it. This was what his usual teacher allowed but the substitute teacher that they had that day took exception and said it was disrespectful.

Even though next day, his normal teacher agreed the punishment was unfair and that DS had no time to "earn" his way back off the cloud, the punishment stood.

So when the majority of the school were watching movies, DS got sent to the library to read a book - the irony clearly not striking them at all. He was happy enough and especially so when his best friend joined him as he was being punished for being hit by a shoe - don't ask....

Wetwashing00 · 19/02/2021 11:06

I got a call from the reception teacher to say my DS had eaten a sequin, when he was asked why he ate it he said he was hungry.
They asked if I could bring him in a sandwich.
It was before lunchtime

glitterelf · 19/02/2021 11:10

First day of reception, 30 mins into the school day and the phone rings to inform me that whilst DS was ok that he'd struck up a friendship with another little boy, they'd got themselves out of the classroom houndini style and were found 5 minutes later trying to scale the fence.

IthinkIsawahairbrushbackthere · 19/02/2021 12:15

Two more:

I was 12 years old and had an accident in PE, I fell on a trampet landed on the mat and the trampet flipped over and landed on my back. The pain was the worst I have ever experienced (and I've had 5 children and gall bladder trouble) but I had it in my mind that the worst thing I could do was cry or complain.

The 6th former who was supervising the activity I was doing called the teacher over and she was told to take me to the sick room to rest until I felt well enough to go back to class.

Two hours later the PE teacher came to check on me and suggested that I would be ok to go back to lessons so I stood up and holding onto the wall I tried to follow her to the classroom. She saw the way I was looking and said not to worry, she would have her lunch then drop me home.

My mum had a call to say that I had had a bump and was coming home. It looked like I had pulled a muscle so she might want to drop me down to the GP.

I remember being at home and mum helping me to change out of my uniform then I went to the loo while she phoned round for a lift for me. I was shocked to be peeing blood but didn't think to mention it. Having found a lift and spoken to the surgery mum took me straight to A&E where I was found to have extensive kidney damage and I spent three weeks in hospital.

And one where we didn't have a call but should have done:

My parents went to collect DD from nursery and found her and her best friend hand in hand in the garden with the teacher to be told "Nothing wrong, we thought it would be nice to go outside for a walk!" DD and friend were perfectly happy, it was a small school so there was a lot of small group work so we thought nothing of it.

A few days later my mum bumped into a different staff member who said what do you think of miniHairbush's adventure? Of course we knew nothing about it. It turned out that during outdoor play they had found a little gap in the hedge and sat in it for a chat. They hadn't heard the call to go back inside and when they felt cold they went to play something else only to find themselves locked out!

They had been outside on their own for half an hour and no one had noticed. They had been showing the teacher where they had been sat so they could check/block the space to prevent future adventures.

Neddevine · 19/02/2021 12:32

A few years ago now but I had started a new job and took a call from my then 6 year old's lovely teacher. He was fine, no need to panic but she wanted to prepare me for the fact that when I collected him he would be missing his front 4 teeth! He loved animals and was pretending to be a dog, letting a few girls take him for a walk. The 'lead' was a skipping rope that he held between his teeth. They tugged, he didn't let go and the teeth were history. His poor teacher was quite upset. DS was fine. Took him to the dentist to check that no damage had been done. Dentist asked ds for an explanation and then could barely keep a straight face, nor could the nurse. No harm done but thank god they were his baby teeth.

snowstercat · 19/02/2021 12:42

I had a call to let me know my child had been one of the children leaving school premises at lunch time....(via voicemail) tried to phone the school to no avail.
Rang daughter who was distraught, I'd never do that mum! I was like it's fine it's ok I just want you to tell me the truth.
Mum I promise I haven't.
Tried to call back again no avail...
Later on received a voice Mail 'so sorry Mrs X it was the wrong Stacey (name change) it was the other one 🙄

Then a few week later...phone call, 'could please come and pick Stacey up from
School she's been in contact with someone who has covid......'
Me-she's actually at home and has been off for the last week due to been in contact....
Oh sorry wrong Stacey!!!
Oh god seriously, they need to get their surnames correct!

amusedbush · 19/02/2021 13:00

@LynetteScavo

I had a call when DS was in Year 4 to tell me he had deconstructed a picnic bench. Apparently he'd found one loose bolt on the bench, and then wanted to know if the others were also loose. Apparently they were, and before he knew if he had a pile of planks instead of a bench.
This is absolutely something my brother would have done! He dismantled everything he could get his hands on and is now a very happy mechanic being paid handsomely to take cars apart Grin
Ablemaybel · 19/02/2021 13:09

I worked at a different primary school to the one my children attended. I'd drop the kids off on the way to my school.
I didn't take the call personally, and the head teacher came to my room and asked if I wanted the good or the bad news first. Turned out my children's school was closed, but the good news was it was an inset day so they were being looked after until I collected them!
I'm often reminded by the kids about the time I left them at school when there was no school!

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