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to be mystified why school would call me for this?

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whatthehell123 · 15/12/2016 13:06

So apparently my year 1 so this morning whilst doing some sticking / cutting decided it would be a good idea to cut " a tiny " piece of his hair during this activity
This apparently warranted a phone call home from a member of staff I don't know to tell me, who said they had a long chat about why he did it and he said the piece of hair was annoying him.
Is this really something they need to call home about / have a long chat about?
Surely it's because he is 6 and was probably bored.

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BillyShingles · 15/12/2016 14:56

See it first!

My DD cut a small piece of her hair - small as in not that many hairs but it was on her hairline and down to the roots, and it looked pretty bad. 2 years later it's still not fully grown out.

Her teacher told me I looked surprisingly calm.

squaresnotcirles · 15/12/2016 15:09

IIWM my first reaction would be pleased that DC did not harm himself with the scissors, but secondly you know its his hair, if he wants to cut it he has the right however sartorially unacceptable we adults might find it.

Allthebestnamesareused · 15/12/2016 15:15

Tiny - as it only half of his fringe?

VoodooPeople · 15/12/2016 15:24

dd gave herself a full fringe one day in a boring maths lesson. Annoyingly, she did a pretty good job, so she didn't even have to learn through consequences.

I used to come home with a different haircut every few weeks until it was so short I couldn't really cut any more off. I looked like I had radiation sickness at one point.

LorelaiVictoriaGilmore · 15/12/2016 15:26

Crazy, isn't it? My ds's nursery is always calling to tell me that he's bumped his head, grazed his knee, been bitten by another child... you would need a magnifying glass to find any of these "injuries".

schnubbins · 15/12/2016 15:36

About 8 yrs ago,when my eldest was in fourth grade , the teacher ( crazy old bag) chopped the fringe off of one of the boys in class because according to her his fringe was too long and his mother was too lazy to bring him to the hairdressers.
There were no repercussions for her. We do not live in Britain by the way!

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whatthehell123 · 15/12/2016 15:57

It's at the front of his hair so not exactly unnoticeable but will be fine with a tad of Styling 😂

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VoodooPeople · 15/12/2016 16:08

Get him a fringe wig for his stocking 😂

to be mystified why school would call me for this?

ellalouise123 · 15/12/2016 16:26

I used to work in a school. We rang home quite a lot, because as other people said, a lot of parents kick off massively about things. We figured it's best to let parents know (sometimes it was just via a text if it wasn't urgent) than leave it til the end of the day and have them argue that we should have got in touch sooner.

MeetMeAtMidnight · 15/12/2016 16:34

Agree with other posters, abundance of caution so as to head-off screaming parents. My oldest did this at home in his bedroom when he was 7. Chopped a big chunk right down to the hairline out of his fringe. It looked ridiculous and there was no way I could improve it so I had to take him to get the whole lot buzzed off the next morning and he was late to school. Teacher laughed, these days she'd probably have to report me to someone for being a neglectful, leaving-scissors-lying-around-within-reach-of-dcs parent.

StarryIllusion · 15/12/2016 17:10

If I went mental every time my DS got a bruise or did something idiotic at nursery, I would have a mental breakdown before he even got to infants. Some parents are just weird.

Earlgreywithmilk · 15/12/2016 17:22

This is why I would rather stick pins in my eyes than be a teacher. I couldn't be doing with all those hysterically over protective parents.

My dd once chopped off half of her fringe to 1cm short whilst my mother was looking after her - she literally just went to make a cup of tea. For anyone to expect a teacher with a class of 30 to somehow be able to stop a child who fancies himself as Nicky Clarke taking a snip at his fringe is just mad.

wonderingsoul · 15/12/2016 17:26

Ybu i think.. there just covering their own backs really. Some parents would kick off. I had a call lile this a few weeks back.. pj day they had to cut my 11 year old out of hes dressing gown because hed tied it to tight couldnt get it undone and really needed a wee.
They where a bit nervose calling but i just laughed at the sillyness of it.

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whatthehell123 · 15/12/2016 17:47

This world is bloody mental!

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Earlgreywithmilk · 15/12/2016 17:49

wonderingsoul

BusyBeez99 · 15/12/2016 19:34

My 11 YO DS came home last week having cut part of his fringe off because 'I was bored'. Not sure the school even noticed. Silly reason to call you.

Also a day doesn't go by that he doesn't have yet another bruise from falling over, messing around in the playground etc. It's Called being a child doing things like this!

Ohdearducks · 15/12/2016 19:57

My DP came home a bit bemused last week after he popped in to the school office to drop off DS2 forgotten lunch bag. He'd overheard one of the school office staff on a call to a parent telling them that their DS was 'farting rather a lot today' poor kid.

DixieNormas · 15/12/2016 20:09

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namechanged72 · 15/12/2016 22:29

Whilst we were all getting ready for school/work in the morning, my youngest dd aged about 6 at the time decided to use her dad's razor and shaved her eyebrows off, but just over 1/2 of each one. It looked really strange and it took months to grow back properly so I ended up drawing them on for her in the meantime.

She also cut a massive chunk of her long hair off on one side aged around 4 whilst at preschool. I was slightly annoyed at her as I loved her long hair, but not the school.

The only time I was angry at the school was when she was pushed over at morning break and she bit right through her lip. The school let her clean herself up (aged about 7) and didn't inform me at all. It's only when I picked her up and saw her covered in blood that I knew. Took her to the Dr. and as the cut was over 1.5cm it needed stitches/gluing so she had to go to A&E. Their excuse??.... they didn't think/hadn't realised it was that bad!

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whatthehell123 · 16/12/2016 09:13

He has also done the eyebrows last year, half of each one.
Luckily in www over the summer just before starting school
He has also smuggled lipstick into school gone to to the toilet and come back as mummy
So this was no shock to me!

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futurelotterywinner · 16/12/2016 17:45

This happened in our school very recently, just before home time so didn't have time to call. Called dad in to explain, he was completely reasonable. 10 minutes later when they'd got home, mum rang, screaming about her son and how he wasn't supervised and had access to scissors!
Yes, your sons school was being completely reasonable contacting you!

Kennington · 16/12/2016 17:50

Good grief why are parents wasting time kicking off at teachers over this - and many other things?
Surely the head should step and and put a stop to this madness.

ilovesooty · 16/12/2016 18:00

Some of the heads are too busy using the parental complaints to provide evidence for capability proceedings.

GhostOfChristmasYetToCome · 16/12/2016 18:02

OP, they phoned you because not every parent takes such a reasonable view of these things!

There was a similar thread a few months back and there was uproar amongst some posters that 4/5 year olds had access to a) scissors at all and b) scissors that cut.

It's a bit of a damage limitation action in case the parent decides to not be quite so reasonable about it.

lalalalyra · 16/12/2016 18:09

I know someone who'd likely move her child school if something like that happened! She doesn't talk to another mother in the playground or at partiest because of an "incident" (her word) between the children when they were three and she requests the children are not sat next to each other every year in school... Some people get ridiculous about things and schools get it in the neck.

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