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 bet they thought it was a great prank. It was a funny idea. The school are more than likely aware and letting it go.

Just have a word with him if anything went wrong, the consequences.

I don't see why so many people think this is funny. A 13 year old boy going into a school and causing problems deliberately is not "hilarious", it's misbehaving and he needs to be told off and not to do it or anything like it again. He may well believe that this was just a bit of fun but really it shows that he thinks he can do whatever he likes. I have a 13 year old boy in my family and he's causing problems too, very similar to this. They need to pack it in.

That is very funny op! This was me for a whole year! I joined the school last term of year 9 and for an write year wasn’t on the flaming registers despite them saying I would be put on - got out of PE though lol
Your son will have an amazing memory from all this.

Christ typos on this cracked screen!

I’m sorry what?

@Courtney555 where did the OP say he'd just transferred out of this school? Just said he goes to a different one

I just said his school's first day was for year 7 & 12, but yes both schools are year 7-13.

And actually if this was my local school, CCTV would be checked and heads would roll.

But that's because in the last 12 months, there has been one ex pupil (expelled) who managed to get into the school and steal a purse and a teacher's handbag...and another pupil from a different school, who managed to walk into a classroom and start punching a boy in the face.

OFSTED take security very seriously and tend to make sure schools do too.

The OP's son did it go to the school he 'crashed' in years 7&8, he just knows lots of friends who go there

*did not

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I used to go and hang out in my friends’ school sixth form common room when I had free periods. I didn’t really have many friends in my own school and their common room was vastly superior with nice sofas, tea and coffee facilities and good biscuits. Both schools just had ‘dark suits’ as the sixth form uniform. I occasionally got confused side-eye from teachers who wafted in and out but I wasn’t rumbled until there was a fire drill sometime in the spring term .

Courtney the DS has never been a pupil at that school. He just has friends there. So no teachers would know him and they would assume he was a transferring kid who didn’t make their list.

I know son one else who did this. She had lots of friends at a different school so borrowed a uniform and went there one day. Her case was worse as she skipped a day of her school. Weirdly noone at the other school noticed this new child

Are you in west yorkshire, OP?

chasethebear He thinks I should let it go and be proud of him for wanting to be in lessons

Proper LOL. You've got a right little joker there. I'd be finding it hard to keep my face straight but, yes, I'd definitely make him apologise at least for wasting the school's time. And for gawd's sake don't show him this thread!

I am a teacher and agree, very funny. It will be a story which comes out for years to come. It was very risky of him and there are less funny sides, but overall I would leave it. The fact he told you about it and is speaking openly shows he has a good relationship with you and was either worrying deep down about it a bit or genuinely saw it caused no harm (luckily) and is quite funny.

Sounds like he is full of character anyway...

OP, it all sounded a bit hmmm from the start.

Not very plausible, but OK, slim chance that's how it played out.

Until you said the schools are yrs 7-12. Which means the school he claims to have pulled this stunt at, we're informed by you, 6 weeks ago, that he was off to a new school.

He turns up, they know exactly who he is, they know he shouldn't be there, and they say nothing?

More importantly, day 2 onwards, having spent the first day causing such "uproar" that they haven't enquired where he's been since?

C'mooooooon

This is straight out Carola storms the Chalet School.

That was my first thought too, Wanderings. Carola was forbidden to talk about it, so that they wouldn't have other girls thinking she'd done something clever or funny.

Until you said the schools are yrs 7-12. Which means the school he claims to have pulled this stunt at, we're informed by you, 6 weeks ago, that he was off to a new school

No no no you have made this up! The son has been at the same (other) school since year 7 other than this one little day of madness. As about ten people have already explained.

I wonder what other jolly japes he gets up to.

@Courtney555 a few people have said ow that the OP's son DID NOT go to the other school in years 7&8. I actually read it like that at first but on re-reading it I saw that he just has lots of mates there

They ended up putting him in classes and telling him they'll sort him out on the system ASAP.

So they contact what they thought was his previous school, or even attempt to contact you or his dad?

They just allowed someone they didn't know from Adam, to hang around the school all day?

Massive safeguarding issue if this actually happened.

And when word gets out, no doubt some parents will quite rightly take it up with the school.

That's bloody funny 😂😂😂

@Courtney555

Just because you typed it, doesn't make it true.
Does troll hunting still count when it's complete fantasy on the behalf of the hunter?