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that my child was "burned to death" at school

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angrymum1 · 23/05/2008 17:33

My son is in year 7 at a secondary school. He came home all upset this evening as apprently they had their half termly fire drill.
Part of this is to hide various staff and children around the school to encourage vigilance.
My son was delighted to be selected. Apart from the fact that no on found him till the lesson after the drill when someone heard him scratching at the cupboard door.

Apparently all five other hiders had been accounted for.
Is this nromal? What shall my next step be?

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WatsTheStory · 23/05/2008 19:49

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MrsCarrot · 23/05/2008 19:50

yes, the pickles could have been put in there to have with the barbeque

WanderingTrolley · 23/05/2008 19:50

So how long was he in there? What did he do?

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angrymum1 · 23/05/2008 19:51

he waited to be found fgs! And he looked at all the gubbins.Its very odd isnt it, and its a warm day today.

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findtheriver · 23/05/2008 19:52

Very warm I should think locked in a cupboard in a burning school.

pointydog · 23/05/2008 19:53

He was in there for four hours.
He lived off pickled onions.
He wept and chewed his knuckles.
He had been sworn at by the head and told not to dare creeping out.
He weed in teh empty pickled onion jar.

WanderingTrolley · 23/05/2008 19:53

What, he just sat there, with the glue and paper and the pickled onions? He didn't even try to make a collage? Poor use of his time imo.

I'm beginning to side with the teachers now.

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guitar · 23/05/2008 19:54

if they hadn't herad him scritchin g would he still be there?

tell me, would you have noticed he wasn't home yet?

findtheriver · 23/05/2008 19:55

Perhaps it was a Teacher Assessment for self reliance and ingenuity???

Whizzz · 23/05/2008 19:56

They always use the small ones ... easier to hide

findtheriver · 23/05/2008 19:56

OMG and it's half term too!!! He could have been in there for a week!!!!

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WanderingTrolley · 23/05/2008 19:58

I think that's what they had in mind river.

That's why they put the pickled onions in there.

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angrymum1 · 23/05/2008 19:59

Well, thanks a bunch

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pointydog · 23/05/2008 20:00

What is that? A sad pickled onion?

onebatmother · 23/05/2008 20:02

Oh,no! Sorry angrymum, I think the pickled onions might have steered things in a certain, um, direction.

But I'm sure that if you tell everyone sincerely that you definitely aren't a troll, everyone will calm down a bit.

Teuch · 23/05/2008 20:02
guitar · 23/05/2008 20:02
  • surely tha'ts a pickled onion
WanderingTrolley · 23/05/2008 20:02

Hey everyone leave her alone.

No one likes her kid and he smells of vinegar.

Hasn't the poor woman suffered enough?

WatsTheStory · 23/05/2008 20:03

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pointydog · 23/05/2008 20:03

rofl @ guitar

findtheriver · 23/05/2008 20:04

stop stop I'm going to piss my pants in a minute!!!

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onebatmother · 23/05/2008 20:05

you see, you are all admirably tough. I am a wuss - so even though I'm ... uncertain as to the gen-ew-ine-ity of the thread, I am too anxioius that we might be hurting real feelings to mine the full comic potential of the subject.