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To refuse to immediately replace dd's PE kit

20 replies

littleducks · 23/03/2012 18:17

DD's school has identical PE gym kit bags with school logo on. This week her PE kit had disapeared from the cloakroom, she had to sit out of her PE lesson, I spoke to her teacher and went in and had a good root around lost property. It is definately not there.

The teacher suggested it had accidently been taken home by someone else, I cant see what else could have happened to it. It was all named.

I have sent in a non regulation kit ( the closest i could find in her wardrobe for the next days PE not bright pink stuff)l . I was planning to let her wear this until at least the Easter holidays (starts next week) and maybe the week back. So when everyone takes kit home for washing (they only normally take them home in holidays) hopefully somebody suddenly realises they have two kits and return hers.

Today a letter came home stating that there will be a crackdown on uniform before the holidays start, which is fair enough. However this includes PE kit and dd's teacher said she would have to 'buy a new one'

I think as it dispeared from school property I should get a chance to wait and see if it just as mysteriously reappears. My judgement may be clouded by the fact my friend has offered her dd's old kit, but wont have a chance to get it out her loft until the holidays.

AIBU?

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TidyDancer · 23/03/2012 18:20

YANBU imo. You have a perfectly valid reason to want to wait for a few weeks before having to buy another one, so I don't honestly see how they could argue with you.

QOD · 23/03/2012 18:21

Nope

dexter73 · 23/03/2012 18:24

Yadnbu. How stupid to expect you to buy a whole new kit before the hols when the chances are it will turn up at the start of term.

DilysPrice · 23/03/2012 18:24

YANBU, it's one week FFS.

Sparks1 · 23/03/2012 18:31

The school are being unreasonable.

However i'm more intrigued how it takes over a week to manage to make it into your friends loft!

HappyCamel · 23/03/2012 18:34

YANBU

Catsdontcare · 23/03/2012 18:35

Perfectly reasonable.

shotinfoot · 23/03/2012 18:37

Tell them you will replace it after the teacher has done a full kit bag search to make sure it's not there.

littleducks · 23/03/2012 18:37

Seems like I'm not BU (phew!)

Nothing exciting with my friend, she is just busy until the holidays and I don't want to pressurise her to hurry up as its a favour and will save me shelling out on a kit that dd will probably have outgrown by September.

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DoubleGlazing · 23/03/2012 18:43

Is it covered by your household insurance?

blubberyboo · 23/03/2012 18:52

yanbu - i would wait to see if it turns up or at leat til your friend digs hers out

could you print out a note 20/30 times and ask the teacher to send it home with each parent asking them to have a look at home

PleaseChooseAnotherNN · 23/03/2012 18:58

Yanbu at all. I would ring the school and tell them you will not be buying a new kit. Hope it turns up.

littleducks · 23/03/2012 18:58

I might do that (thought its more like 120 as four classes share the cloakroom)

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MegMogAndOwl · 23/03/2012 20:01

We sometimes get text messages from ds's school asking us to check the names in school jumpers etc if someone's has gone missing. Could you maybe ask the school to do the same thing?

ShellyBoobs · 23/03/2012 20:52

Is it covered by your household insurance?

With an excess to pay (probably) and loss of no claims discount for the next few years, it would have to be expensive PE kit to make that worthwhile, wouldn't it?

DrCoconut · 23/03/2012 21:03

Whenever you would normally buy a new kit is when I would replace it. I'd go one further and not let on about the offer of a kit from elsewhere. That way the PITA that is PE is avoided for a bit. This worked a treat when my kit was nicked and mum dug her heels in. I spent a whole term not doing PE! (If however the school humiliate those with no kit by making them do it in horrid lost property then maybe reconsider, I'm not totally heartless!)

Fecklessdizzy · 23/03/2012 21:18

Nope, you are DNBU. I'm doing the same with DS2's kit, which went AWOL several weeks ago ... All named ... Angry

ComposHat · 23/03/2012 21:22

Don't buy it.

It will probably turn up in a few weeks for goodness sakes.

Seems they are getting their knickers in a twist about nothing.

G1nger · 23/03/2012 21:30

Do you really think your daughter argued the case well with her teacher?

shewhowines · 23/03/2012 21:40

My Dc's lost Pe kit turned up the week after feb half term (after being missing for several weeks). I'd given him an alternative non regulation kit until then and he moaned, but I knew the second I shelled out for a new one it would turn up. Guilt got the better of me and I'd literally just agreed to buy him a new one for the new term and low and behold it turned up that day.

Some other child had been using it all those weeks and had obviously taken it home to be washed for half term, the mistake spotted by mum and sent back in.

YADNBU

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