This is SO boring, sorry, but I'm really not sure if SIBU, or if I am..
DS1 is in Reception. Since starting school he has had three pairs of regulation PE shorts (£8 a pair) and has lost them all. They are named but haven't been returned to the school or shown up in the lost property box. I have now become so fed up with the magically disappearing PE shorts that I have sent him in with a pair of school shorts (as in, the normal uniform ones, rather than PE ones) to put in his PE bag. I told him that until he learns to look after his PE kit and keep it all safe he will be wearing the school shorts. He's now had the school shorts in his bag for about five weeks, including half term.
Yesterday, at pick-up, his teacher pulled me to one side and said "I've checked with the school office and they don't have a record of your order for new shorts..", which isn't exactly surprising as I haven't placed one! I told her this and she said, "OH. WELL. [DS1] needs PE shorts as he's been borrowing shorts from lost property." I asked her why, as he has the school shorts in his bag (we see his PE bag every week so I know they're still in there) and she said that because they're not 'short shorts' (they're just above knee length) he 'can't move properly in them'. Now, either she's being remarkably precious or he's having her on because we're talking about a child who climbed four metres up a tree in roughly six seconds while wearing thick jeans, a wax jacket and snow boots here! I told her that I wasn't willing to buy yet another pair of shorts (I've already spent £24 in less than one school year and can't really afford to spend any more!) and she started talking very loudly about how unfair it was on DS1 to have to keep borrowing shorts from lost property, and that he can't possibly take part in PE properly wearing the shorts I've given him. I was actually quite embarrassed at this point because all the other parents could hear the conversation so I just made some vague, non-committal noises, took DS1 and left.
Sorry, this is really really boring isn't it?! Basically - AIBU for having sent in the 'wrong' shorts, WouldIBU to leave them in his PE bag, and WasSBU for talking to me like that?
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RagamuffinAndFidget · 04/03/2014 14:13
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