school bag up dd's coat and give to charity.........

[bitofcheese]

i am really pissed off. dd forgot her rain coat over the half term period, left it on her coat hook outside her class room (name in coat). our fault in part as i hadn't noticed she didn't have it with her. dh & i share the school run due to my job point is if i picked her up i wouldn't have automatically noticed that she didn't have the coat with her that she may have had that morning (ie raining in the morning and hot in the afternoon, usual English summer) and dd is also to blame BUT.......when she went back to school stands to reason it should still be hanging on her coat peg. it wasn't. i went into school office to have a moan all be it politely. deputy head comes out and proceeds to tell me how any left behind clothes, including items on coat pegs are bagged up and donated to charity. WTF... i can't afford to easily replace it. not happy. i understand and not a bad idea donating to local charity shop items in a lost and found bin that have been there for a few months but taking a named coat off a coat peg outside kids classroom is well out of order

Wow, that is really unreasonable. Fair enough if things had been left for a term, but a labelled coat for a week after half term?! I would be raging!

:-O i would be incredibly cross and i would expect a replacement!

They should at least give a warning! That's ridiculous.

That really is ridiculous.

The cleaners/caretaker should have popped it in the lost property box.

Name was in coat, that's what it says. Yanbu, that's out of order. What did you say when deputy head told you?

her name was in the coat, in big black permanent marker pen. there is alot of thieving of stuff in her school tbh when it comes to 'missing items of clothing'. i myself know of a few mothers who have openly admitted to taking a nicer looking ie cardigan when going through the lost & found bin even if it had a name tag in it, made worse by the women that said it being wealthy, bloody awful. the school always bang on about making sure your kids clothes are named, why bother....

i was polite but clearly pissed off. she didn't like it either when i made a point of saying how the school had a bad name when it came to thieving (which it does) :-)

She sounds harsh, I'd write to the govners and complain and ask them to replace it. They knew it was your DD's cost as it was on her peg and had her name in it. It's as good as theft.

They do that in my dcs' school but everyone gets a warning email a week or so before.

Only items in the lost and found box though, not things left on pegs.

What a cheek. Having just shelled out a small fortune for dd1's uniform I would be supremely pissed off if this happened and damn right I'd expect a replacement.

YANBU I reckon that is theft.

I do not believe that its gone to charity. Ask her which charity because you want it back.

That's awful!

If we find named clothing it is returned to the owner, unnamed goes into lost property and if not claimed after a term goes into our second hand uniform sale.

Removing a named coat from a named peg is theft. I would definitely complain.

yeah, i could go and buy it back! actually, this happened at the beginning of the year, dd forgot to bring home her pe bag, left it on her coat peg. after half term it had vanished from the peg. everything was new too including the bloody pe bag, all named. they just shrugged. i acknowledge that it was our fault to forget to bring it home but if something is named AND on a coat peg outside the kids class room you would like to think that it will still be there when they go back. wtf goes on in these empty halls when the building is shut up during half term. thing is, if someone or i gues 'when' someone pinches something off a peg, noone would bat an eye lid as there is nothing unusual seeing a grown up holding ie a kids coat or pe bag. it may sound minor but if you are skint and have to go and replace a thing like this it is a big deal PLUS what is there to say that it ain't going to happen again too......

Make a mark in an unusual place on the clothing or bag, sew something into a seam, or put a few stitches with coloured cotton in a place that's not obvious. That way you will be able to identify your stuff even if the label has been cut out or defaced.

I would be LIVID!!!

I would consider that to be theft and would make a formal complaint to the governors and to the LEA.

I would be livid it was only a week dont they know about lost property boxes I think you would be able to claim on the schools insurance if not complain about the policy,

I would really complain. That is a shit policy.

I would make a note of everything that was said in that converstaion while it is still fresh in your mind and make a formal complaint.

It might not get this coat back, but it coud prompt them into dealing with lost property in a better way. Our school has one day a term where all lost property is brought out into the playground and parents are encouraged to go through it and look for their belongings, and we are emailed to say that after that day anything remaining will go to charity so everyone has plenty of warning.

That is crap! No problem if its been hanging about for weeks with no name but a marked coat!
In my DCs old school I used to write their names on the inside of their sleeves because there was so much theft.
I would be complaining, the school have been totally out of order.

What if your child is suddenly unwell and absent on the last day of term!!!! That's awful.......however are you SURE it was on the peg? No ones taken home by mistake or she left somewhere in playground/classroom?

i've already complained and made it really clear that i think their policy of bagging up everything is ridiculous. she kept going on about lost property but how is a labelled clothing item haning on a kids peg outside their class 'lost'. dd is going to look in the deputy heads bin lined (!) tomorrow so we shall see if it is in there but i will eat my hat if it is. the lost property bin is only ever full of shite, you NEVER find anything in there when you look but i guess it is for the reason that i have more than once over heard other mothers state, they take the better looking item when looking for ie their kids cardigan. i don't even bother looking in there anymore if dd has lost her cardigan, you never find it and instead find yourself rifling through a load of smelly manky old stuff. i hope it doesn't rain this week..... i'll just have to buy another one although cheaper, not going to bother investing in a half decent one, no point. the upside is that i don't think it would have been too long until she had grown out of it tbh but that's not the point though. reception told me to write a letter to her teacher which i will if it isn't in the bin liner although not really sure why, it's not the teachers fault