First day back at school after half term and by 10.45am I was back at school to collect DD (8) because she wasn't feeling very well. She was absolutely fine when I dropped her off. I had an event I had been very much looking forward to that was impossible to take DD with me to (first day of the winter run of horse riding events.) So I missed my day out with friends and stayed at home with DD instead. She didn't seem very ill, just a bit quiet, and by lunchtime she was looking very perky indeed. She said she even felt well enough to go to Brownies as they were having a bonfire. I'd told her if she was too ill to be at school she would probably to ill to be able to go to Brownies, but by 12.30 she was begging to go back to school since she wanted to go to Brownies. So I took her back, and she was fine for the rest of the day. By this point it was too late to catch up with my friends.
When I was at school if you felt ill you were taken to a quiet room to sit down for an hour or so to see if you were really ill or just needing some time out. Only if you were physically injured or being sick were parents called in. I'm frequently away with work, always out of the country. My husband would find it difficult to leave work if running a training course or chairing a meeting, and though we have a nanny she has another job during the day once she has dropped the children off at school.
AIBU to think that school should be better placed to make a decision as to whether a child is really sick or there are other issues before calling parents? I am fairly certain there are no bullying issues, but she is the youngest in the year and sometimes lags a little behind her classmates emotionally and needs a bit of time to process things. I'd like to speak to someone at the school but not sure whether that person would be her teacher, the head or the secretary (who took the decision to send her home.)