Have the school done the right thing even though it punishes the wrong set of people ?

Any parents objecting because their children can't wear their hoodies to school should be blaming the person who decided to leave one child's name off. Alternatively, you could all modify your hoodie by striking out her child's name (if she can't understand what she did wrong). I think I would have supported sharing the VAT cost though, so that each child paid the same.

Wow, is this the OP, the mum of the left out boy, or another class parent?! @Mumof3bringwine it looks like you’ve an acquaintance on here!

Honestly, ordering hoodies isn't rocket science, people make things sound so complicated to make themselves look good.

Kids would move past this in an instant not be bothered about wearing the hoodies, hopefully any irate parents either grow up, or are irate at the person...the malicious fuckwit of a power hungry classrep who did this in the first place.

wow that is unbelievable. my child owuld have been absolutely devastated - and my child has been out of school for months because of sen! but they were fully included and it meant so much to them.

of course the kids can't wear them in school and it's hardly a 'punishment' compared to the sadness and humiliation suffered by the chilld left out

usually the school ask if someone does NOT want their child's name on the hoodie - even when it's just first name,

and then every child's name is sent to create the mock-up

It should be the whole class.

(sounds simple, but even something as simple as having every parent checking the preferred spelling is a bloody nightmare 😂)

Surely the parents who organise this don’t just add names of parents who pay for a hoodie? Surely it should be the whole class?

I helped organise Y6 hoodies once and it was a bit of a minefield for all sorts of reasons BUT our school insisted on checking the list of names and also the proof before printing the whole batch - it was irritating at the time but am now feeling relieved they did! Sounds like a very awkward situation here - and feel sorry for the child who was omitted and all the others who obviously wanted to wear the hoodies.

Is this thread the follow up to this one: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5286717-who-is-right-in-this-scenario

Wow that's really poor, I organise hoodies for our leavers and everyone's name is on it whether parent's buy one or not and they cost max £20.

This is horrendous for the child left out . .something he won't forget his whole life long. A terrible end to his primary school experience and will also probably impact badly on his start to secondary school. Whatever his parent may or may not have done the child should have received a hoodie and his name should never have been left off. How could anybody take this level of spite on a child
Of course the school can't have the other children roaming around the school in this hoodie, rubbing the left out child's exclusion in. I'm surprised the year 6 teachers were not asked to check the order for their class before it went in but this horrendous act is entirely the fault of the spiteful adult concerned. The only other alternative to forbidding the hoodies in school would have been for the school to reorder the hoodies with the extra child's name on our of school funds, collecting the other ones in so no child could use the first hoodie over the summer to potentially rub the horrible spite in to the left out child. As a retired member of a school senior leadership team that's what I would have suggested.
Of course schools are really strapped for cash I know. Ideally this should have been noticed and new hoodies ordered before the first hoodies were handed out

If this isn't,t happening, of course the other kids can't wear the hoodies and I would hope that the majority of parents would support the school; n this. Hopefully most parents would explain to the disappointment year 6's that this is not a punishment for them ..it is care and proper concern for one of their own due to the terrible spite of another adult. 😱 What a horrendous situation 😁

I recently saw a group of teenagers who had signed their school blouses /shirts in the case of the boys. Do the children have enough time to do something similar I wonder.

This every single child should be on it

buying it is then separate

that said hoodies last all of 5 minutes before being packed away and never seen again

I don't believe the mother of the other child was criticising though. She had paid for her child's hoodie and then was asked to pay a share of the cost of some of the others; she didn't even refuse, she just said she couldn't afford it at that time.

What an absolute shit-show.
Well, the Year 5 parents can rest assured that there will be no leavers' hoodies next year!
Schools can do without this sort of shit.

Do parents ever, I wonder, ask why there's all this fuss about garments that will be soon be left behind and abandoned by their growing children when the same funds might be contributed to, oh, I dunno, buy books and equipment for the school and actually further people's education for years . . . .?.
I predate hoodies and I predate WhatsApp and I predate all these strange new pseudo-rituals; this means that the melodrama seem just a wee bit misdirected to me!

sounds about right

Parents, in their majority either don't care, or only find time to complain.

If you have strong feelings about the way things are dealt with, you should volunteer! (removing the name is another issue, I am just talking about the organising).

Well one person did and look what happened. Probably no one else wanted the same.

Well one parent did speak up and she ended up having her child's name removed from the hoodie.

Hang on, so 1 parent decided that 20 parents who ordered child size hoodies, should pay for most of the VAT for the 10 adult hoodies the other 10 parents had ordered?
This played out on WhatsApp for all to see and no one spoke up, either the other 19 who shouldn't be paying any VAT or the 10 who were not being asked to pay the full VAT they owed?

She made the wrong decision when splitting the vat between everyone, should have been split just between those ordering adult ones.

Did no one challenge her on this at the time?

Either way every student should be named on the hoodie even if their parents don’t buy one.

Abysmal

the school are right. Hopefully the kids learn a valuable lesson they take with them

School has done the right thing. The rep should have left their personal feelings out of this.

We do it in school. It is a bit of an undertaking, but we are in control of everything that goes on them that way.

I am not defending her and removing the name,

but I can sympathise with someone left alone to deal with this because no-one else can be bothered and then, who has to deal with complaints from people doing nothing but who always find the time to criticise.

No, it's REALLY not the job to organise it.

That said, if you put several parents in charge, as it should anyway because it's a big job, and someone checks, that should avoid a repeat.