The mum of a 12-year-old boy is refusing to send him back to school after claiming an older pupil gave him cannabis.
Speaking anonymously, the mum today claimed her son came home with what she believes to be a joint, which he told her had been given to him at Prescot School. She said he would "never be attending" the school again, after she withdrew him from classes this week.
School bosses said they were working with the family, but that there were "very clear differences" between the mum's evidence and what they understood to be the situation.
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The mum told the ECHO the school contacted her to say her son had had a "bad day" on Tuesday, and when he came home she noticed he was not his usual self. After asking her son, a first-year pupil at the school, he told her he was given the drugs in the atrium around the canteen. He claimed an older student "slipped" the plastic tube containing the joint into his coat pocket.
The boy's mum told the ECHO : "The school called me on Tuesday saying that my son had had a bad day, now that is usually his favourite day because it is PE, he loves PE. So I asked him what was wrong and he just didn’t look himself, he looked grey.
"He then handed us this joint in a plastic container and said that he was given it by one of the older boys. He told my son to go home and try it, and if he likes it he can buy more from him in school.
"As we opened the lid off it, the smell was absolutely atrocious. I have now taken my son out of the school. I am not willing to put him back in there, but I don’t think that the other boy should be allowed to stay in there either."
A spokesperson for The Prescot School said: "Every school has to be vigilant when it comes to outside influences on their students, and we will continue to work tirelessly to provide support and education to help our young people make the right choices.
"In this instance, however, there are very clear differences between the evidence the school has and the allegations that have been made. We will continue to work with the family to resolve these issues."
