DS has controlling friend

[greenbananas29]

DS 5 has a friend in class who wants to play with my DS all the time, sit next to him every day at lunch, and won't let him play with anyone else.
My DS says when he goes to play with some other friends this one friend doesn't like it and wants him to himself.
We've also noticed that our DS is being 'led' to doing silly and naughty things that he knows are wrong because his 'friend' tells him to do them.
When we asked him why does he do it if he knows that's it's wrong he says ' because if I don't do it *** will get angry' 😩
Any advice? Im feeling pretty upset with the situation.

Speak to the teacher.

i was going to say the same, have a word with the teacher. And help your DS to say no to this child and not to be scared if he gets angry.

Try speaking to the teacher it won't be the first time they have had this. Let your child know it's okay to play with someone else or do something else even if the other child gets upset or angry. If things don't get better and you have a two or more class entry you could ask for him to switch classes.

Definitely speak to teacher. Email and ask for a 5 minutes appointment after school asap. Hopefully she'll nip it in the bud.

Also have a word with him about being strong. To both say no to the boy re trying to stop him playing with anyone else: "No. I'm going to go and play with Bobby now".
And also the strength to say no, to being led, doing things you know are wrong.