Not Education, but Secondary school related!

[kid]

My nephew came home from school today with a bandage on his hand. He is 13 and had a fight with another pupil. The first aider put a bandage on his hand and said if it got any worse he should go to the hospital. Is this normal practise for Secondary schools or should they have phoned the parents?

I know in Primary school, an injury like that would mean a phone call home, just wondered if Secondary school should have called or not as I have no experience.

If its not serious I dont think they call.
Not really sure though.

He is at the hospital now to see if it broken. I know the school are not to blame for the injury, he was the one that had the fight. Just wondering if they should have phoned once they saw the injury, he couldn't have done any work with his hand like it is.

Hospital have just done an x-ray on his hand and confirmed a broken bone

oh dear. Will it teach him not to fight? I think not!!!

It varies. Where I work the nurse will phone if it is deemed 'serious' enough. We don't phone for every little bump.

So for example if achild faints, but has a history of the and this fits the normal pattern we don't phone. A new faint and we would.

My sister spoke to the school, they don't know why she wasn't called. The person she spoke to just said they hadn't dealt with it. The school have said this isn't the end of it, they want my nephew to write a statement of what happened. He is going to get in trouble for fighting after all! Might make him think twice next time.

Sorry kid, it's not funny at all, but I am chuckling at the thought that the school have asked him to write a statement ... with his broken hand

we have had problems before like this. ds was pushed over(mucking about) and caught himseldf on a broken bench. the cuts on his back were beyond belief. but the school did nothing. didn't even ring me.

I know, we thought the same about him writing with his broken hand. When he is trying to make a point about anything, he will say 'do I look stupid' to which we reply, 'well after what you did to you hand, yes!'

Schools should have a rule that everyone follows. Then the 'I didn't deal with it' wouldn't work. Luckily he is ok and isn't in too much pain.