Page 19 | What's the strangest call you've ever had from your child's school

JamesMiddletonsMarshmallows · 23/02/2021 23:15

School ones have all been normal but DD's nursery used to call for the most ridiculous of things. I was once at work and they called to say she had a rash on her hip. I asked did she have a fever, cough etc to accompany it - no. Well i said it's probably her eczema And shell be fine.

The week after when I picked her up she was in the middle of being very short of breath (she has asthma, luckily it wasn't a asthma attack) and apparently no one noticed

m0therofdragons · 23/02/2021 23:28

Teacher pulled me to one side with tilted head when dd was year 1. “Dragons, your dd was telling the class about her grandparents and that your mum and dad died... I’m so sorry to hear that!” Erm no... turn to dd who says “you said they’re in heaven!” Ah, no, they moved to DEVON!

Teacher then added “oh that makes sense... can I ask about the other grandparents living in a tent?” Me (laughing hysterically at this point) “they have a house and live in KENT”. We’d tried to explain counties the night before so clearly that went well!

starfishmummy · 24/02/2021 00:39

@BikeRunSki

Got called to pick DS up from Nursery when he was about 2. Very hot summer day. They said he felt very hot and were concerned he might be running a temperature. Got them and he was wearing a thick hoody from his spare clothes bag, with the hood up. I asked why he was wearing it since it was something like 26 C outside, and all the other children were in shorts and T shirts. “Because he really likes it” they said. He did really like it, it had Bob the Builder on, but seriously.

I had similar with an older DS. Call to say he wasn't well. Ar the time his small special school used to let parents go to the classroom to get their kids. I walked in and the teacher said he was a "bit hot". School was always overheated and he had on his usual uniform including sweatshirt, and coat; they'd put his chair by the radiator and wrapped him in a thick blanket!! By the time we had walked back to my car he had cooled down and was already feeling better!!

seepingweeping · 24/02/2021 09:37

These are hilarious.

I have so many.

Nursery called to say a box had fallen on ds head and he blamed one of the other children and lashed out. Other child had actually got a hold of a broom and was hitting the box full of folders and it landed on ds head. But my kid got spoken to because he was crying and was mad. He had a big cut where the corner of the box had caught the top of his head but nursery said that must have happened after.

School called to say can I collect my son because he's not well, got there and it wasn't my son who wasn't well.

Another time I went to school office to collect ds for an appointment, office person went to go get him and came back like a ghost saying he wasn't there and the teacher had said someone else had been in to pick him up and she needed to phone the police. Lots of panic from everyone to find out that a child with the same first name, in a different class had been collected and ds had been there the whole time.

LuLuBeth · 24/02/2021 14:28

[quote edwinbear]One from DS's teacher at about 10pm at night, she'd been trying to get hold of me all day but I'd been caught working late.

He'd been playing horses with his friend in Reception, who'd strangled him round the throat with a skipping rope. He'd been checked over by the school nurse, both children had been spoken to sternly about the dangers of skipping ropes round the neck and they had removed said skipping ropes from the available playground toys, but the teacher was so worried about how I'd react she wouldn't have been able to sleep until she spoken to me personally to explain (she was lovely). I said I'd noticed the red mark but he was full of beans when he got home and was fast asleep in bed.

Then in Y5 a call from the safeguarding lead and Deputy Head about a story DS had written about killing himself ! He was trying desperately hard to improve his creative writing and had been asked to write about how he would feel if

GrumpyHoonMain · 24/02/2021 14:35

@listsandbudgets

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?

I got a call to pick up DN because she was being greedy and that it was unacceptable. Had no idea what that meant and was furious over being contacted but didn’t want to lose the place so I went. It turned out that she had been blackmailing other kids to get seconds (and thirds!) of food because she was too shy to do go more than twice.

olbndanszombie · 24/02/2021 15:10

It wasn’t a phone call, but back in the 70’s we hadn’t got a landline. One Friday evening the head with the police and an ambulance turned up at my mum’s door because a load of kids had been eating berries off a bush in the school grounds and some had been sick. Later found out they were poisonous (can’t remember what they were) so all the children who had eaten them were taken to hospital and given something to make them sick.

olbndanszombie · 24/02/2021 15:13

For ds1 he had been bullied mercilessly by this kid in his year (year 7 & 8) that when he’d finally had enough and smacked him back my ds got suspended. Obviously I kicked off and so did the bully’s mum the school had been shockingly shit at sorting the bullying, the other mum and me got together to try and sort it!

olbndanszombie · 24/02/2021 15:16

Final one from ds1 in year 10 got a call to say there had been an incident and he’d been injured. Got to school to find the police there because it was a teacher who had grabbed his arm and tried to physically drag him out of the classroom 🤬 son hasn’t got a common name but there was one other kid in the school with same first name and initial of surname. Yep teacher had the wrong lad

Iwantacookie · 24/02/2021 16:20

@LostToucan

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.

This reminds me of the time I was in primary school in assembly for some reason my db was picked to go do something at the front. Cant remember what happened but he was about 6/7 years old. Anyway he ends up leading the assembly with the head taking a seat and letting him get on with it. Best bit was just as the assembly was finishing he told us all to behave otherwise they would end up in his office. I remember the teacher calling my dm after school and telling her about it while they both pissed themselves laughing

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 24/02/2021 16:41

@olbndanszombie

It wasn’t a phone call, but back in the 70’s we hadn’t got a landline. One Friday evening the head with the police and an ambulance turned up at my mum’s door because a load of kids had been eating berries off a bush in the school grounds and some had been sick. Later found out they were poisonous (can’t remember what they were) so all the children who had eaten them were taken to hospital and given something to make them sick.

They had a bush with poisonous berries in the school grounds? That is pretty shocking: why was it there? And had there never been any child poisoned before?

LostToucan · 24/02/2021 17:44

We had an old apple orchard in our primary school grounds - perfect trees for climbing but also good for falling off. There were a lot of broken arms and busted collarbones.

letsgomaths · 24/02/2021 18:29

@LynetteScavo and @amusedbush The child deconstructing a picnic bench reminded me of a story about monsters, who had screwdrivers instead of fingers, and when they were little, they would take things to pieces, but no need to worry: they would always leave the parts neatly stacked. One of these monsters took Big Ben to pieces.

olbndanszombie · 24/02/2021 19:15

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime
It was a laburnum tree, and it had been there forever in the field next to the school, it had only belonged to the school for a couple of years I think at the time, and it was still in the process of being cleared so I don’t think anyone have it a thought! As I say it’s over 40 years ago and things were a lot different then 🤷‍♀️

ItsSnowJokes · 24/02/2021 19:58

My eldest daughter I had a phone call when I was at work. "Can you get to the hospital ASAP as your daughter was hit by a car" in shock I asked if she was OK and got the reply "we think so, she went off in an ambulance by herself" she was 14 at the time and I was not impressed they had not sent someone with her, she was very upset when I got to a&e.

My youngest is just a disaster zone but the one that sticks out from nursery was a phone call to say she had been in the garden and eaten bird poop. She was only 9 months old and I had to call the GP to see if it would do any harm. The GP was lovely and couldn't help but laugh at the situation. If anyone else finds themselves in this scenario the GP said she would be fine and she was.

AndAPartridgeInABearTree · 24/02/2021 20:12

They had a bush with poisonous berries in the school grounds? That is pretty shocking: why was it there? And had there never been any child poisoned before?

My primary school grounds were full of yew hedges/bushes. That's when I was taught about poisonous berries. I was never ever tempted to try one so the lesson must have been loud and clear for a 4 year to understand.

Bunnybigears · 24/02/2021 21:00

They had a bush with poisonous berries in the school grounds? That is pretty shocking: why was it there? And had there never been any child poisoned before?

It was the 70s back then children were told not to do something because they might die and generally they didn't do it. I was at Primary in the 80s/90s we had multiple poisonous bushes along the border of the school field and the houses that backed on to the field also used to have various things growing through the hedges. If a ball went into one of the gardens we were allowed to run round and knock on to get it back as long as there were 2 of us, we didn't even need to ask the dinner lady. Its not that long ago but it was a completely different world.

coastergirl · 24/02/2021 23:58

When my boy was at nursery, probably aged around 3, I was called at work to say he had put plasticine up his nose. They weren't allowed to try and get it out, and they thought he might need to go to A&E. I work in a school. I set off for nursery, armed with our deputy head's tweezers! Halfway there, nursery called me. He had pulled it out...and eaten it. Yum.

I work in a specialist school for children with autism. I've been on the other end of so many calls!

LordGrantham · 25/02/2021 01:29

Please can you come and get Master Grantham (DS7) as he’s hit his head and there is SO MUCH blood the OTHER CHILDREN are getting frightened. There was a lot of blood! He was fine thankfully. Bless the staff and their paper towels.

MrsOmelette · 25/02/2021 06:39

Phone all from lovely headteacher when son was 7...”just to let you know Master Omelette has glued himself to his chair, do you have more trousers you could bring in as we’ve had to cut him out of his?”😯. Another boy had brought superglue in to school and my Boy had put it all over the chair and sat in it at the start of the morning...

sueelleker · 25/02/2021 08:47

@AndAPartridgeInABearTree

They had a bush with poisonous berries in the school grounds? That is pretty shocking: why was it there? And had there never been any child poisoned before?

My primary school grounds were full of yew hedges/bushes. That's when I was taught about poisonous berries. I was never ever tempted to try one so the lesson must have been loud and clear for a 4 year to understand.

My niece learned that lesson when she was about 5-she and a friend ate some bryony berries and had to be taken to the children's hospital and made to vomit!

Deathraystare · 26/02/2021 10:29

Why the hell did the cook give him 5ths,

Blummin' heck, I thought I was onto a good thing having thirds!!!!. I would be embarrased now but a group of us acted half starved when we queued again and again.

Iveputmyselfonthenaughtystep · 26/02/2021 13:21

I have actually been the parent phoning preschool to ask where DD hid the remote. Tbf I did actually need it for work as my computer screen was busted but I felt like such a tit! Three years later and the little bugger still hides the damn thing so nobody else can use the TV.

Iwanttoliveinnarnia · 26/02/2021 13:44

Teacher once called me over at pick up as DS was sobbing, says he had a little bump in the playground at lunchtime but he’d been fine all afternoon.... Nope he’d broken his leg and was in plaster for many weeks!

35andThriving · 28/02/2021 16:46

This thread deserves to be in Classics!