Would You Recognise Your Granddaughter?

[Gromit]

A primary school has launched an investigation after it sent a six-year-old girl to a GP with the wrong grandfather.

The pensioner picked up the pupil, who has the same first name as his granddaughter and is also blonde, and took her on a mile-long bus ride to the surgery. The grandfather failed to realise he had the wrong child at the time.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10355542/Investigation-after-school-hands-wrong-pupil-to-grandfather.html

Bizarre?

[youngmafbog]

It is rather bizarre. There must be more to it than meets the eye, like what were the school thinking?

[ummmm]

My granddad completely forgot I even had a daughter.

[EcclesCake]

Equally, would you not recognise your Grandfather?

[wolf63]

Ask to tell two identical looking dogs or cats apart and I could, but children sort of all look the same.

It could have turned out badly - but it didn't.

[jomifl]

Perhaps the school has a grandfather bank from which they can withdraw a grandfather whenever they need one.

[Mamyalynne]

This is a case where a few odd circumstances collided, wrong child brought to reception to a Grandfather with poor sight and or recall - child who did not speak out as confused.

AS Wolf says no harm done and a bit more double checking in future and hopefully this will be a one off.

[Gromit]

// Equally, would you not recognise your Grandfather? //

Not if you had never seen him.

// Having never seen one of her own grandfathers, the girl did not speak up //

[boxtops]

I think the issue about "not going anywhere with strangers" needs to be reiterated to the little girl in question, then........

[boxtops]

...but the school is mostly to blame, IMO - if they didn't recognise the grandfather, they should have asked for ID and other checks.

[Mamyalynne]

I agree but if the responsible adults here said 'Granddad has come to take you to the doctors, she may well have thought it was her other Granddad'

[Mamyalynne]

Yes, when I picked my Grandson up from Nursery occasionally - it was like the Inquisition, quite rightly.

[FredPuli43]

That's nothing. When she was about 6, I couldn't recognise my own daughter at school and had to wait for to come to me. At that age, fair haired girls in identical uniforms look the same to me.

[sunny-dave]

Get yer hair out of yer eyes Fred :+)

[FredPuli43]

No problem Dave. Back then, 20 years ago, I was a skinhead and now I don't have the problem, what with having my Mohican -:)

[pixie373]

A bizarre set of circumstances, but the school's responsibility in the end. Glad it turned out well.

[mikey4444]

My Dad, who was a grandfather many times over, used to put the tea cosy on the milk jug and put the tea pot in the fridge, after he made a cup of tea, so I can well believe this story.

Seems that no harm was done.

[grasscarp]

When I picked up my granddaughter from nursery I had to use a pre arranged password to be allowed to take her.

[Old_Geezer]

They all look the same, small & noisy. How'd you expect a male to spot any difference ?

[Zeuhl]

I hope this story doesn't inspire any child abductors!

[askyourgran]

At least the rent-a-grandad turned up at the right place albeit with the wrong child. Fancy having to trail all the way back again to pick up the right one. Why didn't the girl say anything before leaving with him?