To have left DD at school?

[CutCheek]

DD is 8, Y4. Only the second time in her nearly 5 years there they’ve called me at all due to illness/injury.

Get a call about 1pm to say DD had had a fall while helping the lunch ladies and had hit her face – they were calling as it was a face/head injury - falls are common with DD as she has a joint condition but they’re usually minor so don’t even know about them unless she’s needed a paper towel from the office or bled – and even then, it’s usually just a slip in her bag that I don't have to even acknowledge.

They said she was fine, a bit bruised but her usual self but did I want to pick her up? I said I was in a meeting online right now but I’d call back when the meeting was over to check on DD and make a decision then.

30 minutes later meetings over, I call back the school. Secretary says she’d sent DD back to her classroom and not heard anything else from her teacher about it (teacher initially called me) so if I heard nothing could I pop in to the office at some point this week to sign the form.

DD was fine, a bit bruised and with a cut covered with a plaster but was fine, alert and had done PE and was released from her classroom with the rest of her class – I’d gone a bit earlier to see how she was, I usually don’t pick up until 4.30 (from ASC) but managed to move my work round so I could do usual pickup. After a bath you can hardly see anything at all and she’s gone off to sleep as normal.

I’m a single parent, so I can’t just drop everything because I don’t get paid when I do that. Obviously if she’d been sick, got a bad cough that was distracting from her working/her classmates working, or it was an actual concussion type injury I’d have dropped everything to be there but for a cut cheek I’m not sure. But I feel bad that I left her at school, like school were expecting me to pick her up and take her home? Are they expecting me to keep her home tomorrow?

Only thing the teacher said as DD was leaving class was “Hope it was ok to put a plaster on”

So WIBU?

I haven’t signed the accident form yet but will do that when I drop her off tomorrow.

It is a decision you can only make on a case by case basis, with full information at the time

SOunds like it was fine to leave her in school today

I’m not sure what you are second guessing. I’m sure if the school felt that she needed to be collected they would have insisted you collect her or called you back. They
probably just wanted to inform you so you could make the decision yourself.

You made the decision. It was all fine.

I don’t think they’d expect her to be off school when she continued the rest of the day fine.

It was fine to leave her in school. The school were just letting you know what happened and were giving you a choice as to what you wanted to happen next. Some parents want to look at an injury and assess it themselves and bring their child home. Others are happy that if the child is happy and gone back to class, it can probably wait. If the school had concerns they would have called again.

all fine. I always left my kids in school unless the school refused to keep them.

It’s fine, if school were worried they would have firmly insisted that you collect and seek medical attention. They must have agreed that she seemed ok if they let her do PE.

@CutCheek head injury - they have to call you.

There is another thread on here today about a nursery that did NOT call the parent about a fall and head injury. That child appears to have had a minor concussion. Obviously that nursery should have called that parent.

It's standard procedure for school to inform you after a head injury. You can make the decision as to what to do when you are notified. If they let her do PE, presumably they weren't concerned about her.

i wouldn't have left her, i'm not being mean or rude btw i'm just saying what i would have done but maybe that's because of my own upbringing, i also have a joint condition and everyone was very blasé about it until i got to about 14 and could advocate for myself, i'm not saying you did anything wrong op