To not know what to do about my son who pretended he went to a different school?

[chasethebear]

My son started year 9 this September. He has a lot of friends at the other secondary school. They started a day earlier than his school did and thought it would be hilarious to go into school with his friends. Apparently they spent most of the morning trying to figure out which classes he was in and caused an uproar at the school. They ended up putting him in classes and telling him they'll sort him out on the system ASAP. DS then obviously never went back and attended his actual school. I have no idea what to do about it. I haven't been contacted and no other word has been said but I hate to think what the other school have done.

I think it's a tiny bit funny. The other school needs to look at it's safeguarding procedures though.

I probably shouldn't find this quite as funny as I do

Did he borrow a uniform? I'm surprised he managed it

I must have misread something somewhere, because how did your son manage to attend a full day's school that he shouldn't have been at and you not notice his absence?

All his mates lent him a piece of uniform each! I couldn't actually believe it.

I find it funny too. I think he will go far if he can channel that motivation and determination into other areas!

This is hilarious

I thought it was hilarious but didn't dare say so! I feel for the school desperately trying to sort things out. Also how come his actual school didn't contact you to find out where he was or does that not happen on the first day?

He's 13 and said he was going into town with a friend. It's not that I didn't notice he wasn't home.

The school sounds incompetent.
Where did you think your ds was all day? Not criticism, just curious.
I would probably do nothing and wouldn't expect to hear any more about it. School are unlikely to want to highlight their incompetence.

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That’s hilarious!

Our secondary local schools all have ID keycards & thumbprints - is this unusual?
I guessed most would now to stop anyone entering. It's also gated!

I did find this a bit funny though..I wouldn't do anything, if you've not heard anything maybe nothing will come of it.

How did the school not realise that he wasn't even supposed to be there?! It is ingenious of him and his mates though.

What did he wear? I’m afraid I think that’s hilarious. It’s a memory that he’ll enjoy for the rest of his life.

That's hilarious

Did he give the school his actual contact details?

I think it's funny! I feel a bit sorry for the admin people involved, but I'm sorry, I still find it funny!

Sounds quite funny and resourceful. Do you need to do anything? He’ll presumably now be too busy with his real school to mess about like that again!

Ahh I do apologise I misread your original post.

Sorry, that’s really funny...

Your DS has a great future ahead of him but I suspect that he may drive you to drink a lot of gin...

if you get contacted by School then just deny everything

That is really funny! No harm done I think, I would just leave it.

That's so bad but also smart and quite funny! I'd tell him off for wasting people's time and probably chuckle to myself after and keep the story to tell at his 21st / wedding. He could be doing much worse at 13 than doing an extra day in school!