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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To be furious with school over this?

270 replies

pink4ever · 15/08/2011 15:18

My dc is starting school on wednesday. A few weeks before the end of the summer holidays the school gave out the uniform order forms. They had to be completed and returned with payment by a certain date. However due to many parents failing to do so by said date we did not receive our orders in time. We were assured we would get them before school returns.

I go to school this afternoon to collect mine and hear a mum in front of me querying that there is no blazer in her pack. I decide to check mine, Hey ho-no blazer. When I ask about this I get told it is nothing to do with office staff and I have to speak to head of pta. I am also told that I should have had a phone call informing me of incomplete order. I hadnt(order has been paid for in full btw)

I phone the women supposedly in charge who doesnt seem to know anything about incomplete orderHmm. She tells me she is trying to get to the company who supplies uniform this afternoon and that I hopefully will be able to pick up order tomorrow.

I am beyond furious. At the parents who handed orders in late,at the pta who dont seem to have a clue what they are doing but mainly at the school for their shrugged shoulders attitude.

I want my dc to have the proper uniform for the first day-it is an important moment. Also as I said I have already paid for it so as far as Im concerned thats theft-they have not supplied what I paid for.

So am I BU?

OP posts:
Kendodd · 15/08/2011 16:14

Oh I do love a good AIBU thread, they are so funny Grin

Go down to the school straight away and blow it up, sounds like your DH will be keen to help you.

LynetteScavo · 15/08/2011 16:14

Yes, YABU.

But hopefully you will be able to pick it up tomorrow.....so all maybe well.Smile

Chill.

pink4ever · 15/08/2011 16:14

anuntiemonica-nice.really.

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Pancakeflipper · 15/08/2011 16:14

So you go in guns blazing and your husband reduces people to tears?Oh you are going to have fun during the school years as a family. You and the Headteacher will be on first name terms in weeks.

There will be plenty of opportunity to rip into others about - like when uniform/ drinks containers/packed lunch boxes are zapped into a mystery place to never be found again....

Feel sorry for your kids though coming from the ranty family.

zukiecat · 15/08/2011 16:15

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pink4ever · 15/08/2011 16:16

I actually thought it wasnt the done thing on mn to point out others spelling/grammatical errors?. Am leaving thread now as need to try and sort something out for my dd. Thanks for the advice.

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Maryz · 15/08/2011 16:16

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thesortinghat · 15/08/2011 16:17

You'll be known as 'those parents' amongst the teachers. But on a serious note, I'd be onto Judge Judy asap.

SoupDragon · 15/08/2011 16:17

FFS get a grip.

The uniform suppliers have fucked up, not the poor PTA volunteers.

PMSL at theft. Why don't you phone the police and see how far you get with that one?

AMumInScotland · 15/08/2011 16:17

Perhaps both your and your DH need to consider whether reducing people to tears for "poor service" is the best way to treat people who have volunteered to do something to help the school to fund the extras? Since you have no time yourself to help them, maybe you could expand your view of the world to include people who help out, even though they don't have the time either, and then end up having to face parents going to spontaneous-combustion levels of fury over problems.

The PTA did not steal your money.
The PTA did not take your money and fail to provide a good service.
The PTA took your money and handed it over to a supplier who has struggled to fulfill the contract.

Your child has not been harmed by this process. Your child will be one among many who does not have the blazer on their first day. They will all laugh and joke amongst themselves about this. They will not be traumatised.

You can send her in one of her casual jackets, or in her duffel coat. The world will not implode.

Katisha · 15/08/2011 16:18

Well I'd say that was a 100% YABU there.

ChippingIn · 15/08/2011 16:18

Seb - kids all over the world wear their coats to school - it doesn't have to be a blazer to keep her warm. It's a glitch, nothing more.

SoupDragon · 15/08/2011 16:18

Is the weather in Scotland really so completely different that a jumper will not suffice in the middle of August??

TandB · 15/08/2011 16:19

Actually this thread has been really helpful. I have just found out that the curtain pole I ordered for our very narrow dormer window is still out of stock 2 weeks after the company told me it had been dispatched. The decorator has finished and gone and the room is needed on Friday.

I have been pretty reasonable with the company in the circumstances and got nowhere. Now I know that I need to ring them up, reduce them to tears and report them to the police for theft of my curtain pole.

Funnily enough I am a solicitor and yet this simple solution eluded me.

Thank you all!

ChippingIn · 15/08/2011 16:20

Oh for the love of God.

Who else is pleased not to be a new entrants teacher in Scotland atm?

seb1 · 15/08/2011 16:20

No Chipping, people said send her in a cardigan, I said it is a bit cold for that.

BuntyPenfold · 15/08/2011 16:20

What a shame the OP has left. It was all going so well.

RockStockAndTwoOpenBottles · 15/08/2011 16:21

hahahahahahahahaha Bunty well said!

ChippingIn · 15/08/2011 16:21

Soup - the child in question has a variety of coats she could choose from, it's just not The Blazer Hmm

seb1 · 15/08/2011 16:21

Soup, 9degC is quiet cool.

pointydog · 15/08/2011 16:21

If a jumper doesn't suffice, any old coat or jacket will.

HappyMummyOfOne · 15/08/2011 16:21

"he has been known to reduce people to tears when he has been given poor service "

I wouldnt be proud to have a husband like that and certainly wouldny brag about it on the internet.

Perhaps is good you have an excuse not to join the PTA after all.

TheMonster · 15/08/2011 16:21

'We don't all live in the land of Boden' Shock Grin

RockStockAndTwoOpenBottles · 15/08/2011 16:22

kungfu tut tut, you of all people should have known how to get to the bottom of that! Grin

hocuspontas · 15/08/2011 16:23

This is precisely the reason our PTA gave up supplying uniform. Ill-mannered, impatient parents treating you like 2nd-class citizens while you try and do something worthwhile. In the end the local shop provided all the uniforms. More expensive and no profit to the school.

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