Wednesday was tipping with rain and DD took her new fidget spinner to school for Wet Play. I told her not to, she insisted.
Picked her up and she was hysterical. It was on her table and somebody took it. She doesn't know who.
Now, this is a one-class per year primary and she is Y5. The teacher had the perfect opportunity to say to the class "Ewanjr has lost her fidget spinner. Can you all have a quick look around for it and the person who brings it to me gets a house point." No blame, DD gets it back. She didn't. She let them all go home. She told me that they "often" bring back to school something that has gone missing.
There has been no message to parents that anything has gone missing, and nothing said to the children. So thief has got away with it. If DD came home with something that wasn't hers I would take it back to school but presumably thief has thieving parents as well.
There have been other incidents over this year. DD had a pencil shaped like an arrow she bought at an English Heritage place. Somebody took it out of her drawer and sharpened it down to a stub. Another child had a distinctive jacket taken. Yet we never get any communication from school saying has anyone picked up XYZ by mistake.
This is the WWYD. I was going to let it go, and I've told DD that next time I tell her not to take something to school she should listen. But, given that most of the class are 10 years old, thus above the age of criminal responsibility, I am wondering whether to speak to the teacher again or go to the HT and ask them to speak to the children about stealing. Someone in that class knows that is DD's toy and has deliberately taken it. It's not like a 5 yo thinking "pretty" and taking it. It's not like dropping your jumper on the field and walking off without it. This is a deliberate act, just like the pencil.
WWYD?