to think that schools should use pens that wash out?

[ChristinedePizanne]

DS has just started school. School tops (with logo) cost £6.50 each - he only has two because they are so pricey (he has some plain ones from Next too). He was wearing one last week and got pen down the front of it - a pen which his teacher gave him to practice his letters with. There are huge blue ink spots all down the front that will not come out despite repeated attempts with Vanish and washing twice.

I cannot afford to buy him a new top so he's just going to have to wear one with ink stains.

AIBU to think that the school should use washable pens?

Never mind DS's clothes..... most of my 'school uniform' is covered in whiteboard marker marks too..... (teacher). I keep forgetting to put the lids on and then doing my gesticulating wildly thing and bingo... another skirt with a stripe.
I just send DS to school in marked tops, they're clean, he'll get more marks on them later and on school photo day they wrestle him into his hitherto unworn sweatshirt!

I'm not a small child.

YANBU i have this problem with my boys school, particularly with ds3, he is left handed and they use little hand held white boards to write on with the wipeable pens, but of course as he writes he then smudges it off with his sleeves of his jumper so they end up stained, if also gets down the front etc and just looks a mess.

the school have a scheme where they reward children with 'house points' for looking smart and they take pride in the childrens appearance and encourage them to do so, i HATE sending them to school in stained clothes, but as the new HT has just changed the uniform (second change in 3 years!) i am damed if i am going to keep on replacing stuff, its bloody expensive, i have two there at the moment and will have 3 there next year. until this year they wore navy shirts with a red jumper, very smart and the navy shirts were GREAT as they didnt stain and i even managed to hand them down from one boy to the next, now its WHITE shirts and a maroon {boak} jumper, the white shirts are a pita and dont come clean no matter what, so i end up binning them and replacing them every half term and they need one for each day of the week (whereas with the blue i could get away with 2 each and another spare for emergancies) so thats 10 new t-shirts every half term, even buying the cheap ones wihtout the school logo that adds up!