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AIBU?

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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:
hobnobsaremyfavourite · 15/08/2011 16:34

It wasn't a compliment.

pink4ever · 15/08/2011 16:35

Oh but I shall take it as one. Bye.

OP posts:
BuntyPenfold · 15/08/2011 16:35

hobnob now I am crying with laughter

Katisha · 15/08/2011 16:35

So OP - in the face of overwhelming reaction that you are indeed BU, have you modified your stance at all?

MonkeyJungleConga · 15/08/2011 16:35

"beyond furious" hahahahahahahaha! I mean seriously? I dread to think what your reaction would be when something really serious happened.

hobnobsaremyfavourite · 15/08/2011 16:36

yes that's because.................oh forget it.

Pandemoniaa · 15/08/2011 16:37

"Blazergate"

It's only Monday and the entertainment value is hotter than an August schoolday in Scotland.

Anyone care to predict tomorrow's comedy classic?

Shoutymomma · 15/08/2011 16:37

I thought Scottish people were born with a teflon coating??

zukiecat · 15/08/2011 16:37

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AuntiePickleBottom · 15/08/2011 16:38

don't fret, by the end of the 1st day it will be covered in paint ect ect.

AnotherJaffaCake · 15/08/2011 16:38

I got so engrossed in reading that my cup of tea has gone cold!! To OP, if you're still reading, the blazer will turn up, it is not theft - it is just an incomplete order - it happens. Get over it.

Malcontentinthemiddle · 15/08/2011 16:41

It generally is the PTA not the school who order uniform - ours did exactly the same when dd1, now starting y10, started school: we were two polo shirts short for the first several weeks.

If I tell you that I now can't remember whether I'd already paid, and had forgotten this had happened at all until I read this thread, will it calm your histrionics at all? Wink.

thesortinghat · 15/08/2011 16:41

Er, is the op joking, only wondering if this is a wind-up because of the way she responded to hobnob

thesortinghat · 15/08/2011 16:42

Oh and the fact that surely nobody gets their sporran in a twist over a missing bloody blazer!!!

EuphemiaMcGonagall · 15/08/2011 16:46

We should request a new forum called Seeking vindication of my incandescent indignation.

youmeatsix · 15/08/2011 16:48

complete over reaction by the OP

but maybe she wanted photos of her child in her blazer 1st day of school

mine must wear a blazer (scottish school), and the head stands at the school entrance every morning and makes sure they have them on and the rest of their uniform, and any jackets or jumpers over blazers are removed
any non regulation skirts/shoes etc and they are sent home, and expected to return

musicposy · 15/08/2011 16:48

I'm sure this must be a wind up, or something, not sure what. I've replied to pink before and she hasn't been rude like this - not that I recollect. I seem to recollect she's not normally quite so keen on wonderful DH, either. Very out of character. Confused

By the way, when DD1 was in her first year of secondary we ordered polo shirts (only for the summer term) in April and they arrived the last week of term in July. They weren't going to fit the next year. School basically said "tough".

I've been taken in by so many threads recently, I must have "MUG" written all over me. Hmm

montymum · 15/08/2011 16:50

YABU and as others said will do yourself no favours making a big scene. We actually did have a parent call the police to report a child's P.E kit missing. They had left it in the changing room and had been returned to the wrong cloakroom (because the parent hadn't named it!). Both the police who came to investigate and the whole staffroom thought it was hilarious ad have the parets labelled as loons for the rest of the childs school life!

HappyMummyOfOne · 15/08/2011 16:51

"Anyone care to predict tomorrow's comedy classic?"

Pandemoniaa, you'll have to wait until Wednesday as I am sure said child will come out with missing blazer and OP will be suing them for loss of use and loss of photo opportunity or a lunch box/cardigan etc will have been left at school and the OP will be demanding nobody leaves the premises until its found.

EuphemiaMcGonagall · 15/08/2011 16:52

Bloody hell youmeatsix is that private? Shock

DollyTwat · 15/08/2011 16:53

Pink your daughter will never wear the blazer, it will be all new and scratchy and a bit too big
Seriously, it will be lost forever in the black hole of items of clothing at school

EuphemiaMcGonagall · 15/08/2011 16:54

The OP is probably mortified by the thought of her PFB looking like a poor wee soul with no blazer, being looked down on by smug mummies who managed to kit their kids out in the full uniform.

thesortinghat · 15/08/2011 16:54

I'm definitely calling wind-up on this one, no way could anyone believe they weren't being unreasonable.

Pandemoniaa · 15/08/2011 16:57

Roll on Wednesday.
"Some of Our Plimsolls Are Missing - a Midsummer Murder"

southmum · 15/08/2011 16:57

dont worry about it OP

The blazer will be lost by next week anyway, or turn up with fag burns in it or something