To be annoyed with daughters preschool?

[Pisces90]

First day back and my daughters new jacket has been stained with paint! She wears uniform and i have no issue with that clothes being stained or wrecked. It is preschool afterall. But i didn't think that included her jacket! I tried talking to one of the assistants about it and was fobbed off and asked if i wanted them to take a damp sponge to it. The paint had dried in and it's non washable paint so a damp sponge was pointless imo. I am so pissed off about this. Not sure if to go to the heads office tomorrow or no. Opinions?

What do mean by non-washable paint?

It happens.

Stick it in the machine. It could well come out.

They might have been painting outside, so that's why she's got paint on her coat.
Ask them to explain the use of aprons to your daughter.

Yes you'd be unreasonable.

It’s preschool. It’s a coat. It’s paint. There’s far bigger things to get worked up about.

Cool wash in the machine

Ita preschool. Dont send anything nice in

YABU
Painty/muddy/messy clothes are the sign of a good day! Don't go and whinge at the head for planning nice activities for your child.

no washable paint? or do you mean coat is dry clean only?

My twins only ever wear cheap supermarket clothes to nursery - everything comes back stained.

I also bought a couple of overall rainsuit things which they wear in the garden there - saves a lot of mess.

Don't send her in to pre-school in anything at all that you don't want superficially ruined. Have pre-school specific cheap clothes.

It should come out. Nurseries I've worked in always used washable paint.

You need to speak to your child about why she has got her coat full of paint. Hold her responsible. In preschools children to have access to all activities both inside and out. Paint will be outside, mud will be outside etc. Give her a consequence for getting paint on her clothes such as helping to clean it so that it will help her to be more careful next time. If it doesn't come off, she will see that it doesn't and again the consequence is that she will then have to wear a coat with paint on until she outgrows it.

I wouldn't get annoyed about it before you've even tried to wash it. You'll look very foolish if it does just sponge off. I can't imagine they gave the kids oils after all.

I’m sure most kids paint is washable.

It's part of school- outside is an extension of the classroom so they are liable to get wet or muddy.

If you can't stick it in the washer then more fool you for sending your daughter in a nice coat. My daughters coat is covered in mud and whatever else most weeks so I just stick it in the washer, job done.

It’s unfortunate and annoying but going to the Head for a bit of paint on a coat? Absolutely not. The Head has a lot of much, much, MUCH more important things to deal with. Stick it in the wash and hope for the best - they grow like weeds at that age so she’ll be needing a new one soon anyway.

Yep, it pisses me off to no end. DD hasn't stained her coat but her shirt sleeves were stained by this paint that refused to come out. After the third time, I handed the teacher a note with costs of replacements and told her I'd emailed a copy to the office as well. I never got a response BUT DD hasn't come home covered in paint since (her hands maybe but not the clothes.)🙂

Tbf Walker, depending on where the coats are hung up, it might not have been her that got paint on it and she might not know how it got there.

Are you sure it isn’t washable? I think you probably shouldn’t have sent that particular coat in if it was important that it didn’t get dirty.

New stuff is not going to last at nursery, staff don’t have time to follow every child around to make sure they instantly put an apron on when painting.
Get some stain remover and put an old coat on her from now on. Don’t go to the head that’s ridiculous.

@EmmiJay Jesus Christ it's a pre school! It's not up to them to make sure your child doesn't have a speck of muck on them, they are bound to get dirty. Bloody ridiculous attitude.

Are you serious @walker1891?! She’s at preschool which makes her 3 or 4 years old. You would hold her responsible keeping her clothes clean during a messy play activity at school? If you put that kind of pressure on kids they will feel nervous about joining in. Kids are meant to play and get mucky. It’s part of growing up.

And to those questioning the “non washable paint” comment - not all paint is washable. And even paint that is washable only actually washes out if you wash the clothes within x hours of them getting dirty. Once it’s totally dry it doesn’t completely wash out. Almost all of my sons clothes from nursery are stained with so called “washable” paint because it’s too late to get the paint out by the time he’s got home in the evening.

At ours they have a free flow system. They do painting and other activities inside and outside. Her coat is bound to get dirty.

@Spotbott Do not care. They want the children to look presentable, I send her in that way and expect her to come home with clothes not covered in black paint. Anyway, it worked as like I said, she hasn't come home like that since. Job done.

Don't do what walker said, you'll put her off making the most of the activities at nursery. As others have said they will have painting outside and paint could have come from another child's hands anyway. I used to go home with handprints and all sorts on my clothes and I was the teacher.