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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?

OP posts:
FeatherInTheWind · 17/02/2021 17:38

I've got so many, all related to same DS (never had any calls for the other 3 DC)

One was "Hello, we've had to have a conversation with DS about not tattooing other children in the toilets" this was infants

Another was "hello, we've had to have chat with DS about not betting children to drink out of their shoes. Another child was found to have £15 on them and it was won during a bet with your DS" juniors

Also "hello, we've had to have a chat with DS about not buying the merch from his teachers bands website and doing a superman reveal of the T-shirt in the class" (with teachers face emblazoned on it)

And "Hello, we've had to have a chat with DS about pretending to be a pupil at another school (his own school on inset day) and getting issued with books and attending lessons" Tho, I was expecting this call as one of his siblings told me DS is all over Snapchat as "who is this random kid in my class?"

SirGawain · 17/02/2021 17:38

Not a call from school but an overreaction.
I’m first aid qualified DBS checked etc. Helping at an event involving children. Seven or eight year old had a trivial cut on his finger, (possibly paper cut). I washed I and dried it and put a plaster on - job done, until some Barrack Room Lawyer tries to tell men that I could be reported for child abuse,. WTAF!

nestlestealswater · 17/02/2021 17:38

When DD had molluscum contagiosum. She'd only just started school but had had it for about a year so I didn't think to mention it to the school. I had the following conversation:

"Hello, we just wanted to let you know that it appears that DD has chicken pox. We asked her how long the spots had been there and she said 100 years so we wanted to check."

Hoppinggreen · 17/02/2021 17:42

@Toorapid

From the other side, I once took a call from a parent who wanted me to find out where her DC had put the TV remote control.
To be fair I was very tempted to phone Ds school one morning to ask where the milk was as I was desperate for a coffee before work (in the glass cupboard for some reason)
DuckyMcDuck · 17/02/2021 17:43

Tuesday: Ducky1 hit just above the eye accidentally by a Jenga piece (giant sized version) - small cut.

Friday: Ducky1 in a&e having 3 stitches in same cut after enthusiastically demonstrating said accident to a friend who had been off school on Tuesday!

user127819 · 17/02/2021 17:43

@TheLittleOwl

Lunchtime in Reception, think she'd only been there a week or so. "We're sorry Owl, Littlest Owl has eaten all the cucumber off the salad bar and we don't know what to do about it"
What did they expect you to do about it? Confused
Hoppinggreen · 17/02/2021 17:43

@FeatherInTheWind

I've got so many, all related to same DS (never had any calls for the other 3 DC)

One was "Hello, we've had to have a conversation with DS about not tattooing other children in the toilets" this was infants

Another was "hello, we've had to have chat with DS about not betting children to drink out of their shoes. Another child was found to have £15 on them and it was won during a bet with your DS" juniors

Also "hello, we've had to have a chat with DS about not buying the merch from his teachers bands website and doing a superman reveal of the T-shirt in the class" (with teachers face emblazoned on it)

And "Hello, we've had to have a chat with DS about pretending to be a pupil at another school (his own school on inset day) and getting issued with books and attending lessons" Tho, I was expecting this call as one of his siblings told me DS is all over Snapchat as "who is this random kid in my class?"

I like the sound of your DS
Joeblack066 · 17/02/2021 17:44

One to tell me that her work was slipping and I hadn’t responded to their emails about late homework.... she was 22 at the time and had been left 6 years! 🤣🤣🤣

EKGEMS · 17/02/2021 17:44

My special needs son was 15 or so and I got a call "Mrs. EKG junior EKG has been faking sliding out of his wheelchair and when staff have come over to help assist him to reposition he's hitting the staff (light taps on the arm followed by belly laughs) we know he means no harm and is just being extra silly today but since we had to report this to the principal he wants your son picked up ASAP and not to return for a couple days of suspension" Yeah I was so surprised/shocked/embarrassed! My child learned from both myself and DH that we keep our hands to ourselves and returned to school no further issues reported (son's mental age about 2.5, had a stroke in nicu)

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 17/02/2021 17:45

@Svrider

The school called whilst I was at work, and told the receptionist the NEEDED to speak to me ASAP

DS aged 5, had joined the wrong lunch queue

He had taken sandwiches, but had joined the dinner queue with his friends, and had had a school dinner. 😱

Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin
HazeyJaneII · 17/02/2021 17:47

"Could you come into school to pick up Hazeyboy as he has just vomited on a horse"

Alexandernevermind · 17/02/2021 17:47

Picked my 8yo dd up to be told that at break she was standing outside chatting to the young female NQT. They were both leaning against the wall and a young workman walked last. My dd wolf whistled him. The other workmen didn't believe the NQT that it wasn't her who had whistled him, but it was the little 8yo Grin

tigerbread20 · 17/02/2021 17:49

Had a call from DD nursery (she's 3) "Hi, we just wanted to let you know little tiger called her private parts her vagina today"

Umm yes, because that is what it is called Hmm

LostToucan · 17/02/2021 17:49

DS broke his wrist at lunch time. By the time the school realised and tried to phone me I was in the swimming pool. They tried to call DH instead but he was away on business.

When I returned their call I was greeted with ”We tried to call Mr LostToucan but he’s in Kuala Lumpur you know.”

Yeah. I had noticed.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 17/02/2021 17:49

Not a call. When I picked my daughter up from nursery school, the staff would sometimes take me to one side and say 'There's something we'd like to share with you ...' My heart would sink. The ones I remember now were the time she'd climbed a dwarf fruit tree in the playground and refused to come down, and the time she and another tiny girl had gone into the loo and my daughter washed the other girl's hair with soap. Blush She's going to be 30 in the not too distant future, and has turned out a model citizen, I'm pleased to report!

Chickychickydodah · 17/02/2021 17:49

@Prufrocks
Something similar but my dd aged 6 got reported for mooning out of a window at a bully.
She had seen a video a few nights before of someone doing the same 🤦‍♀️

Sideorderofchips · 17/02/2021 17:50

Sorry Mrs chips but could you come and collect middle chips. She tripped over thin air onto grass but she won't move her arm and says her shoulder hurts. Yes we know you had surgery yesterday on your own shoulder and are doped up and can't drive... '

Yep. Matching slings. She had snapped her collarbone in half.

BabyElephant2 · 17/02/2021 17:50

I was rang at work to be told he had bumped heads. I asked whether his head had fallen off or he was unconscious and going to hospital.. nope not even a bump.

I’m a paramedic. He was sent home with a list of symptoms I needed to look out for Hmm

GetTheGoodLookingGuy · 17/02/2021 17:51

Strangest call I had to make to a parent about their child was when they had sniffed whilst sharpening their pencil and got a pencil shaving stuck in their eye. Several members of staff tried to get it out, but no one wanted to be too firm where an eye was concerned. I ended up phoning his mum thinking she might have to take him to the eye hospital, but she managed to get it out at home (you can poke your own child's eye harder than you can one that doesn't belong to you).

The same thing happened with a completely different child the following year. Again, I was rough as I dared to try and get it out but couldn't, so called her dad and he came in and got it out at the front door, then I took the child back to class!

The other way round - a member of office staff came and found me on the playground and asked me to get one of the boys in my class to get his house key out of his bag because his dad had managed to lock himself out and needed the child's key!

Serendipity09 · 17/02/2021 17:52

I have had 3 at school over the past 18 years so have had a few! The best (or worst!) ones.....

DS1 has sharpened his pencil so much it has broken. Could you please discuss with him why he should not sharpen his pencil too much...

From pastoral team when friends DD was having an awful time and so I was on standby in case she needed someone when friend was at work, so on tenterhooks anyway!....... DS2 has no ruler in his pencil case. Please ensure he has one for tomorrow,...

DS2 needs a plaster on his finger, could you come and put one on please as we are not allowed!

DS1 has mouldy sandwiches today and so we had to give him a school lunch (he had left his lunchbox at school over the Easter break, taken a different one to school on first day back and picked up the old one and taken to lunch hall!)

DS2 was kicked by another child, he is ok, but in retaliation he drew with permanent marker on the other child's face....

DS2 is looking bored when he has finished his work so I have filmed him to show you (yes, I put in a complaint about this one, and suggested that they give him more work if he's finished and bored!)

DS2 is complaining that his finger is hurting and he wants you to see it, we think he is making it up. This is a child who had not had a day off since Y1 and was now in Y6. Picked him up, took him for an x-ray, broken in two places!

DS1 has not attended band this evening, have you picked him up? Cue me panicking as he was only 8 and should have been at afterschool band. I scoured the streets from home to school, then was told he was at band afterall!

LostToucan · 17/02/2021 17:53

Oh yeah, and this was the same DS that was almost thrown out of his nursery because they had installed a new entry code keypad at small child eye level and he’d watched and memorised the number and told all the other kids.

I was quite proud of that one.

herecomesthsun · 17/02/2021 17:53

wow @Serendipity09

trevthecat · 17/02/2021 17:54

Nearly 4 years ago now, my son fell and hit his head, quite bad, said he can't remember doing it, so worried he had actually been knocked out. He was in yr 3. The school didn't phone me. A few days later, after insisting he did not want to go to the school disco, had tears about not wanting to go, school rang me to say, he now wanted to go and could he? Apparently he was crying and inconsolable. I was so annoyed. Jokes on him though coz disco day came and my waters broke in the playground so he couldn't go anyway 🤣

troppibambini6 · 17/02/2021 17:59

Hello Mrs Bambini just to let you know bambinichild has fell and hit the prayer table in her classroom....
Is she ok?
Well she hit Mary quite hard with her mouth, I don't think there's any serious damage but it's a bit bloody and bruised, she really doesn't want to come home as she has Eco warriors after school.

She had fell into the statue of Mary on the prayer table. It took me a couple of seconds of thinking "eh???!!! who the hells Mary!"
When I picked her up she looked like she'd been in the ring with Mike Tyson.

MumofSpud · 17/02/2021 18:00

When DD was Year 8, I got a call from a v angry pastoral person - she went straight into a rant about DD's hair not adhering to school rules - it was bright pink.
She used my daughter's name - there wasn't another girl with the same name.
When I managed to get a word in, I said that at 08:30 she had brown hair - the call was at lunch so she must have dyed it at school in break 1?
Irate then asked if my DD had long or short hair - I said long but this girl had short
hair.
Irate then realised that she had the wrong child's nameGrinBut just put the phone down.
I would have been quite impressed if DD (or one of her friends) had had such good hairdressing skills!!