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Beggars belief!

How old is the 'grandad'?

Whoops! Easily done. The only thing that I could suggest is that the school insists that the parents provide a photo of any adult that they ask to collect their child. It shouldn't be too difficult as its generally grandparents or the childminder.

I do wonder about the grandfather though. Did he really not recognise his grandchild?

Nothing to laugh about.

Easily done by the school staff, I mean. If someone says I've come to collect Mary I'm her granddad and the child gets up and goes....

But the granddad didn't realise he had the wrong child....?

It said in the other links that he had poor sight. Both children are six, have the same name and are blonde and they're in the same class. Worrying.

If the grandad has such poor sight what on earth possessed the parents to send him to the school in the first place.

It will be interesting to see the whole story.

Lara I doubt you would be LOL-ing if it were your daughter that was handed over.

Oh for God's sake, don't start on Lara now!

Of course the parents are to blame. They must have realised the old feller wasn't up to it.

Surely the conversation on the way to the doctor's would have been a bit of a giveaway? The child must be very trusting, to go with a complete stranger and be examined by a (presumably) strange doctor....

I can't understand why she didn't say "That's not my granddad!". I'm sure most six-year-olds would have done.

I'm lost for words

Surely the child who should have seen the doctor would have given a note to the teacher? Or the mum would have spoken to her (teacher) before school that morning?

You wonder whether parents actually talk to their children at all these days. I'm quite sure my grandsons would have known whether they were being collected for anything at the age six. Or younger.

Parenting as we know it is in decline in some areas.

The girl in question is apparently a very shy child and never met one of her grandads as he's dead. A child of six doesn't really know what dead means.

J08 I don't think it reflects badly on the parents of the girl who was taken - young children tend to do what teacher says.

A teacher hands her over and off she goes.

Just shows how vulnerable young children are.

Why did a doctor dish out medicine for a healthy child?!

So many people to blame!

Parents, school, doctor.

And the kid must have been a little bit thick.

You could miss that bit out Lara.

I don't think a 6-year old can be thick - just at risk from those around her.

Yes, it is strange that the doctor prescribed paracetamol for her - why??

If the teacher does not actually know the person collecting a child, then he/she should have to produce photo ID. It's not that difficult these days when driving licenses, which most people have, include photographs. Mind you if this grandfather had such poor sight that he couldn't tell that the child given into his care wasn't his granddaughter, presumably he wouldn't be driving. Passport ID?

In any case, you would have thought the grandfather would have said something along the lines of "I have come to collect Jane Smith to take her to her doctor's appointment. I am her grandfather." That way, Jane Jones would have stayed at school.

I agree, absent! There is fault here on all sides, but it is still feels ludicrous.