Background: We live in Japan. My DD has just started elementary school (academic year starts in April here).
Last Friday she came home from school wearing her indoor shoes/pumps. When I asked her why, she said another girl in her class had pushed her into the school pond so they were soaking wet and muddy. (They were, but also washable Clarks, so no problem 
). She also said the Pusher refused to apologise when confronted by their teacher. Was a bit 
but hey, they're 6, so whatever, not a biggie.
Roll on Monday evening and when DD opens her schoolbag, there's a long, really sweet handwritten letter from Pusher's DM apologising for her DDs behaviour, a letter from Pusher to say sorry and a set of 3 hankies.
I was really touched and (Japanese) DH says we have to send something small back (kind of Japanese custom). DD decided to make a star out of those Iron Beads (they're really popular here, think you can get them in the UK?).
So (sorry for taking so long to get to point) she comes home yesterday and says that it was confiscated by the teacher. Apparently when she gave it to forgiven-Pusher, another kid saw, 'reported' it to the teacher, my DD was duly pulled aside by the teacher, said it wasn't on the Daily List of Things Allowed in School and that he would take it and (this is the funniest bit) return it to my DD the next day (ie, not the girl she'd given it to).
Am I alone in finding this bizarre?
DH just shrugged and said 'maybe'.
Of course, not a huge issue (hey, we had an enormous earthquake a month ago and living under the threat of nuclear radiation), but ..... ???