To say if not found the SCHOOL should replace it?

[Arrowfanatic]

Day one of school today. My year one son came out of school crying as his book bag has gone missing. This book bag is an expensive one issued by the school, I cannot afford to replace it.

He had it in school, the teachers were very half hearted about it. Suggested another child took it home, but since there were no bags in the classroom left over this child would presumably have left with 2 bags.

I told the teacher if it wasn't found tomorrow I would expect the school to replace it. The way I see it the bag was sent in to school, I have no control on how the bags are stored in school so why should I have to replace what is an expensive item when it's not my fault & a 5 year old who goes to get his back from the storage & find it missing is also not to blame.

I feel for you if you can't afford another.
Just sit tight and in sure it will
Turn up

I can see why the teacher may prefer not to have them in the drawers. Book bags can be quite bulky - children have a tendency to put all sorts of stuff in them. And school drawers are normally quite shallow. I removed 5 bags from drawers today, and a handful of cardis/sweaters, and hung them on the children's pegs outside the classroom - I couldn't fit in the letters and whiteboard that needed to go in as a result of them, and other children's drawers were being pushed up because of them underneath.

Realistically school is very unlikely to replace your child's book bag.

At what point did he realise it was missing? In the classroom? Or after school had finished, after other children had left? Did he tell the teacher at the time, when others were still around to check?

You need to take him away from this fancy foundation school where everything is expensive and send him to the local primary . Where the staff will have lots of spare time to deal with your requests the way they deserve.

So if you get on a plane and entrust your luggage to the airline and then when you reach your destination and it has dissapeared and the airline shrugs and says just because you left it in our care it does NOT mean we are responsible in any way shape or form for it , so tough luck , everyone who is saying YABVU to OP would of course just shrug and accept the loss and happily shell out for new stuff ?

It isn't bleeding rocket science to get 30 5yr olds to be ready at the end of the day with their own belongings , especially if they are labelled with their flipping names on it

Our bookbags are logo ones, quite pricey and replaced yearly due to wear and tear. I attach loads of keyrings to ds'. I've seen some people tie a bow on.

It isn't bleeding rocket science to get 30 5yr olds to be ready at the end of the day with their own belongings , especially if they are labelled with their flipping names on it

It's not exactly fun and games though.

My youngest 2 go to a school with an eye wateringly expensive uniform. Eg, Ds' blazer - £90, for a 4 year old

That's got to be a private school.

Do you mean like these? If so you need to challenge the school over the cost!

I work in reception, book bags (along with everything else) go missing all the time, 99.9% of the time they turn up again. Hope he finds it.

frumpet

And it is very easy for someone to steal someone's luggage if they want.

There's no way this book.bag is £30.

My DD's school backpack was more than £30. It's supposed to be some super douper back care thing, but still seemed a rip off to me!

£30?! For two pieces of fabric and a velcro strip stitched together?

I do expect it to turn up one day..

My DS lost one shoe for a week ???? It turned up in lost property. I sent him in red trainers till it did.

Please explain what is so specialist apart from the price?

It isn't bleeding rocket science to get 30 5yr olds to be ready at the end of the day with their own belongings , especially if they are labelled with their flipping names on it

You are paying school fees for your 5yo child to be taught in a class of 30???

What a rip off

frumpet have you tried?
Can you imagine the reaction of the parents if they were told 'No more funding for reading books or art supplies as we are now using that money to replace your children's lost items'
Honestly - would anyone accept that?

And what difference does that make, Feenie?

As I said in my post, that does not mean I'm happy to replace it willy-nilly because it's been pinched, or lost due to school negligence (as dd2's winter coat was one year).

Yes, I pay school fees. Doesn't mean I'm made of money, or happy to accept substandard organisation.

if the child loses it, fine, its its lost because of the teachers actions, school should pay.

Sharon that's great I need to try that one.
Reminds me that ds has even managed to lose his trousers, provided no one went home wearing two pairs I dont know how that happened.

I suspect if you've labelled it really well then it will hopefully come back tomorrow. I would always send a quick email to the other parent if my DD came home with someone else's stuff to save them searching for it, but I always seemed to be in the minority doing this.

And sticking with the airline analogy, imagine if your 5 yr old child could put your luggage anywhere in the airport when they were told to put it on the plane?

It will turn up. Most likely. I do challenge anyone who hasn't tried it to be the sole adult in charge of 30 children at home time when they are told to get ready for home time. It's interesting.

Anyone on tonight who has children who are NOT going through the British obsession with uniform and so on? How do things pan out at your primary (age 4-11) level schools where coats and bags and PE kits are not compulsory matching? And indeed with secondary (age 11-16)?

Just interested, what was teacher's response ?

Arrow, lol! Seriously, book bags can't cost more than a fiver and kids are always leaving them random places. This is not the teacher's responsibility. My son had a transforming DS case filled with games stolen from his nice middle-class school when he was in Y1- he'd taken it in for show and tell and someone had taken a shine to it. In secondary he lost/had stolen a guitar and several expensive games kits. Unfortunately, this is a fact of school life. Make sure everything is indelibly named and make sure everyone knows if you suspect theft, but apart from that there's nothing you can do.

I really need to see a picture of the £30 book bag. My curiosity is killing me

Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I know if I was that teacher, I would delay my home-going by a good couple of hours and find that book bag. Oh, no wait. I might think, "What a rude lady. I'm going home now" instead.

Sorry to hear that OP. I'm sure it will turn up, please don't worry.
I love the comments on this thread about the book bag/ other poster's son's blazer indicating that they must be private school items. What's the inference? That parents of kids at private school start their home fires with used fifties at night so caning money on replacement uniform every 5 minutes is totally fine?!?