Dd1 loves books, has tons at home, and reads all the time. We often go to the library.
She's now in year 5. Towards the beginning of y3 a school reading book went missing. She has mild sn and isn't very good at organising herself, so I'm fairly good at checking her bookbag for stuff. On the day in question I definitely put the book in her bag in the morning and there was no book when she came home.
I didn't worry about it for about a week, thinking they'd probably issue a new one soon, but she came home saying the teacher kept telling her to find it at home. I spoke to the teacher saying we'd never seen the one they said we had. They asked if it was possible dd1 had taken it out before I'd seen it, I said unlikely but I'd check. I asked if it was possible that someone, maybe one of the TAs had accidentally put it back instead of issuing it, they said no impossible.
So I gutted the house, and couldn't find it. I've never lost a school or library book before. The school insisted I should pay for it. I didn't want to do this, and asked if i could gift a lovely children's encyclopedia to the school instead (duplicate present). They were very happy with this. But then still insisted she couldn't take home any more books until the original book was found
I was fed up by this point, so just sort of shrugged and thought oh well, we'll just use the library more.
Except for, now our library is closing, and the next closest is 10 miles away. There's no way I can afford to buy books, with the rate she gets through them.
I think it's really unreasonable of the school to still hold this line after 2 years. Dd1 is on their sn register and needs additional help in lots of areas, and loads of different TAs used to see her, I'm certain that's how the book's been mislaid. It seems totally unreasonable to me that a sn child is being denied access to books over a mixup 2 years ago.