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 don't understand why some of you are saying it's not true, when there are teachers on this thread saying it could quite easily happen at their schools.

I think it's funny too

Really funny! And I’m a teacher and see how easily it could happen as it normally takes time for the system to be updated with new starters.

I wouldn’t complain or anything as there’s no harm done! It’s quite funny really!

Lets be honest if you were the school you wouldn’t exactly think that a child was trying to attend a school they dot go to... what year 9 pupil wants to go back a day early?? I don’t think that would be my first thought if faced with the situation. I’d think someone hadn’t done the paper work and try and sort it out.

I’m also sure his friends will tell the teachers what they did and how hilarious it was.

I'm a fully qualified teacher OP and ... yeah...

Lot's of your post, I do not understand. please, now explain it to us.
We are all ears

let it go and be proud of him for wanting to be in lessons

He has a point, to be fair!

He voluntarily went to school when he wasn't supposed to. Most parents are more worried about their kids doing the opposite!

Its quite funny really, a bit like an old Carry on film. Carry on Schooling maybe ! My son is in his forties now, but when he was a schoolboy, he used to pull off a few jokey tricks at school.

I believe this happened as we have experienced similar at our school.
Also I frequently get children who turn up, claim to be new etc but they're not yet on the register. Communication is often shocking and you only find out any info weeks later

I mean genuine new pupils who just appear and you just get on with it

Actually I've had a senior girl in my class for a few wks now who still isn't on the system. Hope she's not pulling my leg.

(Sense of humour failure here...)

What a clever little shitbag! 😹

I probably shouldn't find this funny... but I do. The school must have been tearing their hair out wondering why he wasn't listed.

How can you punish what was no more than a joke? Gets a 10 from me for originality.

AlevelConfusion
I don't understand why some of you are saying it's not true, when there are teachers on this thread saying it could quite easily happen at their schools.

I do believe that it could happen, just not with the 'everyone was running around after me for hours' hilarity that apparently ensued.

Just make sure he returns any text books / equipment he may have been given...

I did things like that at that age, for any reason or none. I have no idea why I did them, it was just a case of 'seemed like a good idea at the time'.

Kids be crazy.

I think you should write to the school and tell them so they don't waste more time on it. It happened whilst he was in your care so it is up to you to set whatever punishment you see fit, he won't get in trouble with his actual school as it was still during their school holidays.

If it were me I'd let it go but have a chat with him about the implications of doing something like this (eg no one likes the idea of someone who looks young for their age infiltrating a school and planting a bomb - not as ridiculous as it sounds in today's climate).

I am quite surprised it wasn't picked up on for the whole day and no teacher thought to send him to the school office to be properly checked.

I did this when I was about 14. Inset day at my school, so a friend and I spent the day at my boyfriends - said we were cousins who had come down to stay but his parents hadn't left a key out for us.

We made it halfway through the day but then a teacher asked my boyfriend's sister if it was nice having her cousins down and we hadn't briefed her 😂

Sorry but that's a bit of harmless fun. He's probably a legend amongst his peers.
My DH did the same in the 80s- the only difference between his school uniform and his mates was the tie- so he turned up and spent the day there. A few weeks after, his mate did the same at his school.
I think in the grand scheme of things with gangs and battering each other on Facebook live, this is tame.

I too think this is hilarious. And ingenuous on his part. But not very good on the schools part, for not noticing!!

This is funny!!

Reminds me of when I was in an all girls catholic school and 2
boys from the local boys school dressed up as nuns and spent 1/2’a day there!!!!

OP, I think your 13 year old will go far but keep an eye on him

@Downeyhouse

That’s brilliant!!

Just one small note of seriousness - like most of the posters on here, I have much enjoyed reading this thread (goodness, MN really needs a funny one like this at the moment, there's been a serious drought of funny threads lately), but it may be worth a quiet word that pretending to be someone else can be a very serious offence, such as taking exams or a driving test on behalf of someone else. I remember hearing a piece of advice like that aged 11 and being genuinely shocked - after all, children in books are always doing things like that, twins pretending to be each other, etc.