For a teacher, opening up a copybook to start corrections is often a predictable and tedious exercise, which is why staff in this report must have got quite the fright with their recent discovery.
According to reports, a father living in Spain with his family has been arrested for domestic abuse, with his wife alerting teachers by slipping a secret note for them to read into her son’s homework book.
The Mirror reports that the mother-of-two was being physically and verbally abused by her husband, and held 'prisoner' in their home, with no access to a mobile phone or social media.
In a bid to alert her children’s teachers to what was happening in her home, in Benalmadena, she slipped a note of explanation along with her National Identity Card into her five-year-old’s book.
Once they discovered the note, the teachers got in touch with the local authorities, and a ruse was set up to interview the mother and bring her husband to a common meeting point.
The teachers set up a fake meeting with the parents, with undercover police managing to get the mother on her own for an interview. Her husband was then arrested, with a restraining order imposed against him.
The man has also been set up with an electronic tag meaning that, if he comes within 500 metres of his wife, the police will be alerted immediately.
The family are said to have been living in the UK before moving to Spain late last year.
