AIBU to disregaurd school uniform rules

[Mrbojangles1]

Ds (13) has lost his kit for the 3rd time in a row this year

Which consists of

Trainers
Astro turf boots
School logoed top
Shorts
Tracksuits
And the bag for it to all go in

Ds has size 7 feet so no getting kids sizes either

First time we brought name brand stuff which cost loads

Then after theat we went sport and scccor and got umbro cheap stuff

But we just can't bear the cost any more so I have wrote to the pe teacher explains the situation staying he will have the school logoed sports top and the shorts but but we can only stretched to plimsoles and nothing else

Also told teacher whatever punishment he thinks it's is fine with us

I can simply keep buying full pe kit every term we can't afford it

Very cross with ds very cross

DrSeuss kind thanks

Is his stuff labelled clearly with his name? If so, it may be findable in Lost Property!

send him in with a pink frilly tutu. he wont do it again

i marked his name is a sharpie after the 2nd time he lost it on the out side so his name could not be mistaken

he has been to student services and the pe department to no avail well at least he told me he has

any way tuff now this is the 4th time he can take the pain from his very msuclear pe teacher

It's infuriating. Try lost property, but, it may not be there even if it was there originally. I had the misfortune of once knowing a woman who did not buy school uniform when it needed replacing. She would go to lost property and "claim" things. But then, they shouldn't lose them in the first place! At ds's school they have lockers which we can rent for a term but he refuses to use them (because they are too far away from his lessons ), he also leaves things in class because it's "too much hassle to carry them around". Then I think back in the day, we didn't have lockers, our bags weighed a ton. It was tough luck, we managed!

"oh no, he didn't have the sheet, so he didn't do the homework. The sheet was put in his hand along with instructions, you say? He didn't have lunch on the trip. Oh, you offered him one of the spare lunches the kitchen packed and he didn't want it? Oh, he never mentioned that. His auntie is diabetic, you know. What if he had been diabetic? He can't have a detention for being twenty five minutes late for your class as he didn't know what room you were in. Same room you've been in since September and it's now March, but he didn't know.". And so on. Not all the same kid, not all actually boys but all genuine. Oh, forgot the one who blamed me for their kid coming home from a trip with a cold and the one who claimed that I ignored his kid's tummy bug on a trip to Germany. I had photos of him tucking into a massive icecream on the day in question. Curious how the dad wanted to discuss that, not the fact that the child bought a hunting knife on day one of the trip!

YANBU - that's shocking to lose that much kit. Be careful though, there can be thieves in schools. I know one school (DB went there) and there was one particular boy who had been instructed by his "respectable" MOTHER to scoop up any kit he possibly could from the changing room floor and shove it in his bag. My brother lost a huge amount of kit and once had to come home trouserless - no joke. I knew this boy's older sister and she told me this was the case so I am not in doubt that the mother was using the boy as a thief!

Thanks, Faversham. I wish I were making it up but every one is a real conversation I had with a parent.

That and rest of the unprintable ones I guess. My sister is a teacher too in an autistic unit. This is a very very demanding role of course. She loves the kids to bits but wants most of the parents to cock off go the hell away.