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

522 replies

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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CanIGoHomeNowPlease · 17/02/2021 15:14

Had a call last year to say that my DS(6) had licked his mates face. I suspect that it’s not normally a phone call, but being in the middle of a pandemic it was less than ideal

coronafiona · 17/02/2021 15:17

'Your child has a stone stuck in her face.'

'Can you get it out please, I'm a two hour drive away?'

'No, we aren't allowed'

Hmm
santabetterwashhishands · 17/02/2021 15:18

My sons severely autistic so I've had a few strange calls but the best was " could you please tell @@@@ that clothes are not optional " . He only wanted to show them his new dinosaur boxers 😂

Canitbemagic · 17/02/2021 15:18

Can you come now and collect little magic she has just projectile vomited over the displays on the museum trip?
Arrived in 30 minutes as wasn't working far away and the teacher was white and looked so ill. Little magic had projectile vomited over the wooden artefacts they had been shown with no warning whatsoever. I felt very sorry for the teacher.

Gorbie · 17/02/2021 15:20

I can think of 2, phone call from school literally 5 minutes before leaving for school pick up so 20 minutes before the bell goes they ting to say my son is on his 8th nose bleed of the day and they only think to ring me then 🤷‍♀️ 2nd one was the school rang to say there had been an incident and he was injured and he had a bleeding on his head and I need to take him to a&e, so dashed up to school to find him in a big head bandage so I took it off when I got home to find a very small cut on his head!

TheGracefulwhale · 17/02/2021 15:20

Had a call from DS nursery to say ds had got his head stuck in a fence while trying to talk to some sheep and while waiting for the farmer to come and cut the fence to free him a sheep had picked ds's face. He was about 20 months. I laughed a lot!

MonaChopsis · 17/02/2021 15:20

For context, DD (year 6) goes up to high school one day a week. She started walking by herself after the first couple of weeks. Fourth week, I got a phone call from school asking where she was as she hadn't turned up... While I busied myself having a heart attack, they established that they had marked another 'Sarah' as present, when she was in fact absent, and DD was happily at school blissfully unaware of the whole saga!

heartcurrent1 · 17/02/2021 15:20

Had a call to tell me eldest DS had tripped in class and was feeling very emotional about it could I come and get him, he was 6 at the time. Got there to find him with the most massive horrendous black eye I've ever seen in my life, I said maybe he was emotional because his face hurt and the teacher bizarrely said it's probably more the embarrassment I went it's absolutely without doubt pain. Took him to hospital thankfully no fractures or breaks around the eye socket just really bad tissue damage I was just astounded. Even now over a year later I can't bring myself to look at the pictures of it.

Canitbemagic · 17/02/2021 15:24

Another one was being phoned by the class teacher as "Your DC keeps correcting me" -about what? I asked
"She tells me my facts are wrong and I need to cross check them"

  • ok, can you give me an example? I asked
"I told the class butterflies drink when thirsty. One of the students asked how and I told them, with their mouths like we do. Your DC said it wasn't called a mouth but a probiscus" - I replied -she's right I said but I'll have a word when she gets home.

"No, need.she can hear you I've phoned you on speakerphone to the class" -

I mean WTAF?
FFS not even confidential.

Canitbemagic · 17/02/2021 15:25

@heartcurrent1

Had a call to tell me eldest DS had tripped in class and was feeling very emotional about it could I come and get him, he was 6 at the time. Got there to find him with the most massive horrendous black eye I've ever seen in my life, I said maybe he was emotional because his face hurt and the teacher bizarrely said it's probably more the embarrassment I went it's absolutely without doubt pain. Took him to hospital thankfully no fractures or breaks around the eye socket just really bad tissue damage I was just astounded. Even now over a year later I can't bring myself to look at the pictures of it.
WTF
nettytree · 17/02/2021 15:27

My daughters nursery rang to say she had a blue tongue. After ringing her grandparents who had her over night and took her in. I found out she had got hold of some powerade. Told them she would be fine but probably be a bit hyper.

edwinbear · 17/02/2021 15:27

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 Shock! He was trying desperately hard to improve his creative writing and had been asked to write about how he would feel if

Bunnybigears · 17/02/2021 15:27

Just last week the school.called to ask me how DS was finding home schooling, did we have any concerns or questions etc. I said that DS was actually in school full time as me and DH are key workers. This led to a lot of oh er right never mind from the caller. An hour later they called back to tell me it ws ok they had found him!!! He was never lost he had been met at the gates each morning by his class teacher then handed back each afternoon so I'm not sure how they thought they had lost him Hmm

Same DS a few years ago I got a call asking if I could take some spare uniform in as his friend had been sick on him. A few hours later they called again and said another child had been sick on him again and could I bring more clothes. I just took him home, the next day the whole school was closed for noro virus but DS escaped unscathed.

CompleteBarstool · 17/02/2021 15:27

When DS was in reception I had a call from his teacher who was concerned at how upset DS was - he had been sobbing his heart out about not seeing (2 nicknames that he calls his grandparents) ever again, they'd "gone forever" , he'd had to say goodbye etc

The teacher thought these people (she wouldn't have recognised the names as his grandparents) had died or something equally terrible had happened.

I was able to reassure her that nobody had died...his grandparents had just gone on holiday abroad!

Topseyt · 17/02/2021 15:28

One day the children in DD3's primary school were allowed to bring in kites if they had them for some sort of project. Later that morning I got a phone call to say that DD3 had been flying her kite and had managed to land on her head - meaning that DD had somehow managed to end up head over heels herself, and land upside down. ConfusedGrin How she had managed that nobody could work out and DD herself had no idea (was in the infants then, and her kite was a tiny thing). She was fine, luckily.

Another time I was called to say that DD3 had shut her head in the toilet door but was fine. Grin Somehow it was always DD3, never her two older sisters. Confused 🙄

Theotherrudolph · 17/02/2021 15:32

Child was holding a caterpillar in the playground - were they allergic to caterpillars?

Snowymcsnowsony · 17/02/2021 15:32

Not long in reception dd's school rang to confirm if her middle name really was cucumber as dd had stated...

TrivialSoul · 17/02/2021 15:34

Trivial junior is stuck in her jacket, 5 members of staff have tried to free her, would you like to come and try or can we cut her out of it? I suggested they take it off over her head... Funnily enough no-one had thought of that!!!
Smaller trivial at nursery... We have problems with him lying, very unusual for him so we have had a caht to him about it... I enquire about the nature of his lies... Sometimes daddy pins him on the floor and farts in his face... Errm, awkward but that's not a lie 🤣😂🤣

MsTSwift · 17/02/2021 15:37

Dd1 in reception I was called to collect her as she had a stomach ache. I thought this was odd as she was fine that morning. She was subdued but perked up at home. Further discussion it emerged a lovely imaginative forest school teacher had told them a story about trolls that lived in the forest school wood and they had forest school they afternoon and dd1 was flatly terrified as she had taken this all to be true and didn’t want to see the trolls 😀.

BunTooti · 17/02/2021 15:39

I once had a call to tell me DD had fallen in a big, muddy puddle. She was fine but could do with a cuddle and a clean pair of tights...admittedly I was a SAHM and only 10 mins away but I don't think the person calling knew that Confused . Plus she had clean leggings in her PE bag. I still went though Grin

LynetteScavo · 17/02/2021 15:41

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.

SplendidSuns1000 · 17/02/2021 15:41

I'm an emergency contact for my niece and after phoning the 4 numbers given by her parents the school called me frantically just to tell me she'd picked up a bee at lunchtime and placed it on her hand. She wasn't stung and the bee flew off and she washed her hands but apparently we needed to know! SIL came out of a meeting and BIL (a surgeon) were met with receptionists telling them something had happened to their child! The school passed on the message to the receptionists saying they needed to contact them urgently.

naptune · 17/02/2021 15:42

My DC aren’t in school yet but these are hilarious😂

Neighneigh · 17/02/2021 15:43

(this was a voicemail and fuck off daily mail btw) Hello Mrs Neighneigh, it's Mrs Admin from school. Yes I've got junior Neighneigh in my office, everything's fine, well he's just brought me a can of tomatoes and a landline handset in his school bag, he's very worried that you'll be missing them so I said I'd ring you [muffled laughter]"....turns out his 18mo brother had put them in there

MysweetAudrina · 17/02/2021 15:43

Not a call but a letter to say ds (aged 7) had brought a knife to school and it had to be confiscated for safety reasons. When I raised it with and asked why he brought a knife to school he said, to cut his kiwi.

I had put an apple in his lunch box but he had switched out for a kiwi before he left that morning and decided he would also need a knife to cut it.