Parents of a ten years old boy received a letter of complaint from the school regarding their son’s controversial imaginary friend.
Paul Hunt, 30 years old, posted a letter he and his partner received from the school of Fisher’s son. They found the letter inside his school bag. The family lives in Taunton, Somerset.
Teachers apparently called the boy and some of his friends over after some of the adults heard a somehow discomforting term coming out from his mouth.
“Although this is not a behavior letter as such, I am writing to inform you of something that has come to our attention and that you may wish to discuss further with [the boy].
“Him and a few of his friends often make up characters, give them amusing names and then they have exciting adventures at playtimes.
“This in itself is an imaginative and creative pastime and causes no harm.
“However, it has come to our attention that one of the characters has the name 'Wildo the Dildo' and this has, I am sure you can understand, raised some concerns with us.
“On further discussion, none of the children said they knew what it meant, but were aware that it was an inappropriate word to be using.
“One of the children said they picked up the word on the playground, so we will be following this up further and dealing with accordingly.
“I hope you can appreciate the reason I am informing you of this matter and please do not hesitate to contact me if you wish to discuss it further.”
Hunt posted the letter on Twitter, which was retweeted for almost 4,500 times. He confirmed that the boy completely had no idea what the word really meant. The boy had already notified his parents even before the letter arrived.
Hunt, who’s a software engineer, said, “We were already aware of what had happened because he'd told us about it the previous day. We were surprised to receive a letter about it though.”
Hunt added, “He had no idea what the word meant. He was mortified that he'd used it and was not going to use it again anyway so there was no need for a conversation.”
He continued, “We were surprised that the teachers had thought it necessary to write the letter at all, let alone be explicit about what the word was. So, yes we certainly did have a good laugh about it.”
The boy has to be given some credit for inventing such a memorable name for his imaginary friend.
