To be expected to wash three year olds scribbles from pre-school?

[Bibbedeeboo]

Im 6 months pregnant and work full time. OH is away in the US this week on business. My 3 year old dd attends the pre-school of an independent school. Today she scribbled with marker on a cloth tea towel (with a picture in it) which was hanging in the classroom.
I received a note with the marked tea towel from her teacher requesting that it be washed by my daughter (3 years old!). Clearly a three year old has little chance of removing stubborn pen stains and I wouldn't want her 'hand washing' anything with her sensitive skin even if he could.
Am I being unreasonable in thinking the teacher is barking mad?
I ran the Tea towel through the machine with a stain remover but the stains are still there.
Happy to replace it but cannot find the same one online (sold out).
Exactly how am I to respond to this note?
Not happy to scrub this clean / go beyond washing machine call of duty on the basis that a) I'm pregnant and already exhausted from juggling job, caring for little one and doing chores etc), b) think its crazy to expect that a three year old would be able to scrub away pen marks / have intentionally damaged something and c) not sure what the objective is since there are only a few pen marks anyway and the picture is far from ruined.

Anyone?

Many thanks!

Shouldn't they be keeping a better eye on a three year old armed with an obviously not washable marker?

Shouldn't they be keeping a better eye on a three year old armed with an obviously not washable marker?

I agree with Pipbin.

The idea of sending the tea towel home to be washed is a bit nutty TBH and I would also want to know why a 3 year old child had access to (permanent?) markers. Surely at that age it should be poster paints, coloured pencils and crayons?

Think I would be asking to discuss the choice of colouring pens used.

going against the flow here when my daughter was three she scribbled on the wall with her blocks i made her repaint the patch of wall (obviously i did it again when she was in bed) but it was the easiest way to understand consequence to actions and it worked

They're barking. Why was a three-year-old a) given a permanent marker and b) left unsupervised with it?

I'd send it back with a note saying 'It's washed but obviously permanent marker won't come out.'

I'd also be tempted to ask to see the head to discuss the drawing materials your DD and her class are being given.

Deaky, I stood over dd for 20minutes while she scrubbed a door down that she had drawn on, she was 2.5, and it has been the only time she has ever done it. I'd have made her clean the towel.