AIBU about dd's coat?

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Dd was recently in a show at school. On the last night she left her coat in the changing room but didn't realise.
She went straight to her dad's and when she came back she thought she had left her coat there.
She wasn't too worried as she could get it the following Friday.
However when she got to her dads it wasn't there, so we realised she had perhaps left it at school after the show.
Then it was half term.
Today she went back to school and before registration went to lost property to see if her coat was there. The lady knew exactly which coat it was and told her she had taken it to a charity shop!
Is this normal behaviour?
I am absolutely fuming! It was a month old and she bought it with her Christmas money.
I could maybe understand it if it had been there all year and it was the summer holidays but it had only been there a week!
Do the school have a right to give clothes away just like that?
Happy to bow out if I am being unreasonable but I really don't think I am. I want my money back!
I haven't contacted school yet as dd has parents evening tomorrow so I will tackle it with someone then.

Email the head of year. It's too weird that not all the lost property was "taken to the charity shop".
A week is not too long to expect the school to hang onto it.

Thanks for all the thoughts.
I'm on a course this morning for work so I can't get in to school to tackle it first thing today. I work on the same famous but the flipping school is like Fort Knox and isn't a quick place to visit!
I might pop over straight after I finish, before parents evening starts and see if the office staff will give an idea of who to contact and their email address.
Firstly we'll see how dd gets on this morning and if the coat appears.

OP was dds name on the coat?

Check the school's policies - most put them on online - to see whether there is anything showing how they deal with lost property.

Do keep up, Monty

I'm sooo glad we don't have that attitude to lost property at school!
All kids in primary have to wear a (identical) hat to go outside- playtime or walking between lessons. They are forever going missing. BUT, my kids hats are all named, and they eventually make their way back to us. Think 6 months is the longest so far.
At under a week to reclaim, I'd be at the uniform shop most months

You always such a CF @WendyImHome

More CF not to read the full thread and expect OP to repeat herself over and over for you @monty27 But let’s not derail things.

So shoot me then FFS

I haven’t rtft so I’m sorry if it’s already been said but did you ask the name of the charity shop so that you could phone them?

Very odd, we put all of ours out on a lost property table at the end of the school year and also on school fair day then it goes to charity.
I expect your coat to reappear today!

I’m surprised that the school play teacher did this.
This wasn’t the usual lost property situation or a coat left after maybe a couple of hundred kids had passed through, It would have belonged to the pupils who had just been in the play, maybe 20 or 30 at most who had just spent many hours performing etc.
She could easily have tracked down those pupils to find out who it belonged to - in fact given such a small group of potential owners she could possibly have identified the owners by the initials on the labels to dd without a lot of work.

Sounds more like it’s been sold on eBay to me but I would definitely email the school and as others have said email so you’ve got a paper trail as that’s not ok and could leave some parents in bad circumstances losing a coat and having it sent off premises almost immediately.

Ours gets put out all over the playground at pickup on days toward the end of the summer where the weather's cooperative to do that - then eventually it'll get charity shopped/put into spare clothes stash etc after that.

In reality though I usually end up going through lost property, finding half a bajillion labelled things and reuniting them with kids whenever I'm in there looking for DD2's current lost items.

I'd first ask "what charity shop?" and then go and see if it was there.

Can I just say though, while I think it is dodgy that
the coat has gone and the rest of the lost property is still there, the coat was only labelled with initials.

Initials are simply not enough. You should name it properly if you want it back. The staff cannot track down one set of initials amongst hundreds of kids

@DanielRicciardosSmile its not my office, i just work there. the policy is clear though: put your stuff in your drawers, or it will be gone on monday 10am. we have a clean desk policy. leaving clutter flying around instead of locking it up is not tolerated, and it has made working much more pleasant (we have no assigned desks but flexi desks)

leaving clutter flying around instead of locking it up is not tolerated

But it's not clutter. Bags, coats, shoes etc are personal belongings. Whilst I appreciate it might be annoying to have a empty coffee cups / food lying around. I can't see how anyone could justify throwing away personal and often expensive items, that have been left for a day or 2.

Only a mini update so far.

Dd went to see the lady as instructed by her and she wasn't there.
She's 'coming in later'

@Yura apologies, I didn't mean it to sound like I was saying it was your office, just that I'm glad I don't work there. We also have a clear desk policy (I work with sensitive personal information so it's a regulatory requirement) but no one would bat an eyelid at a pair of shoes or a coat left on the rack in the ladies' or a shopping bag in the corner of the staff room. Well, unless they'd been there for months. We do have mass clear outs of stuff but it's probably once or twice a year and an email goes round with 3 or 4 weeks notice. Much better than chucking away an expensive coat because someone left in a hurry Friday evening and had Monday morning off for a dentist appointment.

Update - she has the coat!!
Dd found her at break time and asked if she had got it back.
She said 'yes it's there on the back of my chair'.
That was it.
Dd thinks she has had it as apparently it smells of her!
I'd love to know where it's been, I'd be very surprised if it had been in a charity shop all of half term and not been sold.

It smells of her?? Ew! Straight in the washer with it

Yeah, I'd be extremely suspicious of that! How amazing that it managed to be on sale in a charity shop all through half term, a brand new coat that's very fashionable, and not be bought by anyone... And thee fact it smells of her - urgh. Well, at least it has reappeared and can be washed now.

at our school, all lost and found items of clothing are displayed in the communal area twice a year, for a few days each time. Stuff not collected gets given to charity. But in between 'display days' all lost and found clothes are kept in the school, so you can always go and have a rummage if your child has lost an item of clothing/lunchbox/drinks beaker etc etc.

Initials are hardly readily identifiable as hers. Maybe in addition to a label. Ours do take left items to charity collections or nearly new uniform sale at the end of term. Any idea which shop in case it is still there?