PE teacher forcing my son to do PE with a head injury

[rooby252]

My 10 year old son sustained a quite bad head injury over the weekend and had to go to A&E to get it glued. We were told he couldn't do sports for 7-10 days and to keep the wound dry.
I took him into school yesterday and spoke to a deputy head and the office, passing on the information that A&E had given us.
When I picked him up at the end of the day, he said the PE teacher had made him do PE. He told the PE teacher repeatedly that he wasn't allowed to but was told to do it.
Apparently, the PE teacher saw him kicking a ball around at play time and just thought my son was 'trying it on' to get out of PE.
My son is sports mad and generally loves all sports, so he is not known to try and get out of any type of sports!
My son's class teacher told my son to tell the PE teacher that he wasn't allowed to do (which he did) rather than passing the message on directly.
AIBU to be really cross with the PE teacher for not believing my son, despite him having a huge lump on his face, glue and steri strips?

TomorrowToday
People go to a and e for accidents.... why didn't you keep him of school at the start of the week to check of concussion etc?

I'm* *sure I've already said that I asked in A&E when we were there, and they said he could attend school on Monday morning. So, I followed their advice and informed school of the situation and also passed the fact that my son wasn't allowed to do any sport on to the office and the deputy head.

I agree. A 10 year old child isn’t old enough to be responsible or to judge for himself what constitutes “sport”. I’d email the school, pointing out that the office and deputy head been told he wasn’t to do any sport and was still made to do it. I think it’s particularly unpleasant that he told the teacher repeatedly that he wasn’t allowed to, and the teacher basically decided he was lying, went ahead and put him at risk.

I spoke to the deputy head this afternoon and she said the office had written down our conversation, but hadn't forwarded it (to the relevant teachers/ TAs) for 3+ hours 🙄
She agreed that the PE teacher should have used common sense, and also said they would look at what went wrong with relaying the information. She was very apologetic.

That's good.

In future tell your son not to do what they tell him if it's going to be detrimental to his health. Teachers are not prison guards and can be defied when necessary.

Give over.