This is turning into a bit of a school diary sorry, but had a disturbing incident yesterday.
A kid in my class came into school with a pocketful of pills! Caught her handing them out in the morning and marched her down to the deputy head. The little bleeder claimed to have picked them up in her garden and brought them in. She had 28 red pills, and my school is an a slightly rough area.
I had visions of some druggie dumping his stash over this girl's garden wall while on the run or something.
Anyway, after many, many lies later, her mother came in and took one look and realised they were her dad's antibiotics. The little devil had pinched them at the weeked, hidden them, told other kids she was bringing in tablets and then tried to give them to the others.
Thankfully the other children didn't take them, but she had, so had to be taken down to be checked out at the hospital.
We all rapidly did a discussion on the dangers of messing around with medicines with our children. I just kept imagining what could have happened if she or other kids had eaten some.(The girl did take at least 1, probably 2 herself) I mean 28 strong antibiotics could have killed her!

Anyway, to make the story even worse, we had a phone call from the hospital. They were keeping her in overnight to check her out, and were also concerned by the repeated lying she was doing - they wanted her to see a psychologist because they think she must be being bullied!!!!

It really annoys me how EVERYTHING kids do wrong is blamed on that, rather than a devious and sly little girl who was incredibly stupid and could have injured herself and other children.
Lets see if we get plastered over the front page of the papers now..