AIBU to be mighty p***ed that ds has already lost a school jumper

[northernline]

ok so ds has been in reception just two weeks and already he's come home with someone else's tiny old jumper. where is the brand new labelled correct size one i sent him in with? who knows. and if, as everyone keeps saying, things will inevitably go missing why don't parents send them back in to the teacher. ( i have visions of people sat at home unpicking stitched on labels with glee.) how do you get kids to look after their stuff and check that what they are wearing actually belongs to them???

icooksocks - I am not on a high horse, at all. That is quite unnecessary. Had you said that in your first comment, I would have understood you. Your first comment read as very smug and my comment was "Wow".

Buwhyisthegingone - I think your comment is to icooksocks, not me. But careful how you word it, lest you're assumed to be "on a high horse" too.

Oh butwhy I missed your correction. sorry. I was jaw-dropped at being accused at the time.

YANBU

Ds plimsoles are gone, only a few quid but still getting hold of his size was an absolute nightmare!!!

I've had the shoe issue too, he is THE ONLY child in his class in clarks shoes, the rest are supermarket specials, he came out first obviously not his shoes so I was nightmare mum and stopped the teacher releasing any more until his were found, I was livid, the child wearing thems mum helps on pe days, used the whole 'poor understanding of english' to get away with it, I mean what the actual fuck has that to do with anything. I'm sure in all walks of life shoe swapping isn't the done thing. I scrimped and saved for ds to have proper shoes for school and if they'd gone I wouldn't have been able to replace them at all. They're labelled, permanant in the side and sewn onto the tongue and back of velcro straps.

I'm never seeing the plimsoles again am i. Its probably revenge

Jj

bet he's off your party list

(yup the plimsoles are gone)
out of interest where can you get plimsoles now that woolies has gone?

I used to march in the cloakrooms and rummage through everything, ask DS to look at others stuff when they got changed for PE and check lost property box until stuff turned up and it usually did. For black items.... a tippex pen was my preferred choice. did not wash out either.

I got ds in sainsburys, velcro ones too as hed never manage the old fashioned elastic front ones, only £2-3 was well chuffed

Were two weeks into reception and me and dp have already said party will be a small affair or maybe not at all and he can have a day trip instead, the parents are just rude or bloody weird... And the language from the children is erm enlightening.

(I'm also hated by ds as 5 kids have sweets/fizzy pop/crisps, every morning in the playground...)

It happens, tis life, you need to expect this!,

DS2 has been in secondary school only 3 weeks, he is nearly 12 and he has put his knee through two, yes two pair of trousers already playing football at lunchtime. He likes to be dramatic when he falls over or tackling!

OP - how many school jumpers do you have for your DS? If you have at least 2 or 3 then it doesn't matter if 1 takes a couple of days to turn up.

our old school was weird parents were basically not allowed in the building (maybe that's why little was nicked )

eek at 2 pairs in 3 weeks
we've just gone through another today but they were more than a few weeks old I reckon my lot crawl around on their knees (it's always the same knee!)

we are still workingaour way through woolies £1 wellies here I smiled the other day when I realised I got loads each pair 2 sizes bigger than the last I miss Woolies too

I remember at Primary school my ds's football boots were nicked. They were a birthday present and he was so upset.

His PE kit disappeared at ss and tbh I haven't bothered to replace it as he seems to get by.

It is horrible the way people steal things. My dd's brand new school cardi went walkabouts too.

DS gets a Dr Who magazine every week for general good behaviour. When he loses a school jumper he has to go two weeks without.

Jumpers cost us £8 and in the last term he lost six jumpers. That is punishable IMO.

When we went to lost property I saw a mother quite openly searching through the jumpers sizing them up to her DS and taking them if they fitted - regardless of whose name was inside.

The girls in the primary school my dcs were at a few years ago now decide that they would 'sell' all the lost property to make a little for the school.
Aww I hear you say, oh bloody no, They had my ds's new jumper he had taken in, labelled, on that day.
He said he only put it down to play football and it went missing.
Apparently these girls were collecting everything and not returning them to the rightful owners and just offering them up for sale.

I of course informed the teachers who wer aghast too thank goodness.
They then had to carry on hoovering up the 'lost' property and then return then - a good system