Mummy Told Me Not To Tell (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
I got out the work sheets that I had only just packed away, we did some reading, writing and number work, and then we went for a walk by our local lake. I had tried to talk to Reece about what had happened at school, using the details the head had given me, but Reece just kept saying, ‘I’m sorry, I done a bad day,’ followed by: ‘I will say sorry, won’t I, Cathy?’ I nodded, but thought, to whom? From what the head had told me, it wasn’t just the boy he had pinned against the wall who needed the apology, nor the head of year whom Reece had punched, but also ten other children whom Reece had come across and attacked at random. Again I struggled to equate the child who was now feeding the ducks on the lake with the one who had run riot in school. The head’s emailed report arrived in my inbox on Thursday morning and I printed it out and read it straightaway, even before Reece was up. My concerns grew with each paragraph, for the head had described in great detail all the incidents, including the quite minor ones when Reece had become overexcited in music and in the playground, both of which I thought had been dealt with, and more or less forgotten.
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