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Original poster

To be shocked by the leavers jumpers

270 replies

Itsmytreehouse · 01/06/2022 14:48

My dd is leaving primary school this July and we have been sent a link to order leaver jumpers.
The design has their school name and year on the front in large letters and on the back their teachers name and class mates names (including surname) with hand written messages of good luck printed all over.
I might be over reacting but I’m seeing it as a safeguarding concern that these kids will be wearing them around showing their name and school in public. (They’ve been asked to wear them to school for all next term as part of their leavers production outfit)
Should I point this out to the school or forget about it?

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HelloSpringIveMissedYou · 01/06/2022 14:55

They've been doing leavers hoodies for years!

Youngest DS is in year 11 and I had been wearing his since last month, I need to get very close to see the names.

BiggerBoat1 · 01/06/2022 14:56

You're over-thinking it.

fairgame84 · 01/06/2022 14:57

That's normal for leavers jumpers.

Smartiepants79 · 01/06/2022 14:59

This is extremely common.
School should not be insisting that they all have one though unless they’re paying for it.

Everydayimhuffling · 01/06/2022 15:00

Ours got reprinted in a similar situation: they had accidentally been printed from the wrong list so had full names on them. Definitely a safeguarding risk and needs raising immediately. That's a huge amount of information for someone random to have. It's really easy to make someone trust you with that much information.

thelittlestrhino · 01/06/2022 15:02

We do first names only

strangersthingsepisodefour · 01/06/2022 15:02

Do people like you really exist?

Isaidnoalready · 01/06/2022 15:05

You can have first names only and tbh they are leavers hoodie so they won't know their school only there previous school are they putting there names on with everyone else's? Because no-one is going to call out thirty children's names to see who answers

It will be left in the drawer like everything else soon

MelonsMelonsMelons · 01/06/2022 15:05

Massively over-thought this one I’m afraid.

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Itsmytreehouse · 01/06/2022 15:05

I worked in a school as a TA for years and their leaver hoodies had the year and first names only and in small print, so I’m surprised it seems common to have the school name and full names! (Large font so you don’t need to be close to see them) there are quite a few children in foster care in dd class so I just think it’s a bit odd to add so much unnecessary information

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Highlyquestionablehoumous · 01/06/2022 15:06

Yeah it's pretty normal, although I would be a bit Hmm at surnames as well.

HappyHappyHermit · 01/06/2022 15:06

It is common, but I thought the same.

TinaYouFatLard · 01/06/2022 15:06

We’ve done leaver’s hoodies for years. This time is the first year a parent has made a fuss and now we’re only allowed first names.

Don’t be that parent.

Hankunamatata · 01/06/2022 15:06

Nope I agree. We went 1st names only

Sirzy · 01/06/2022 15:07

How close would somebody need to get to stand a chance of reading a name well enough to identify someone?

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Itsmytreehouse · 01/06/2022 15:07

The design is the same for everyone you can’t amend them to first name only or remove the school name, the ordering is just for which size we want to collect on Monday

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crumble82 · 01/06/2022 15:08

If there was only one name on the hoodie and it was of the individual wearing it then it would be a bit more of a safeguarding concern but the names are of the whole class and you have to get pretty close to actually read them so I think you’re overthinking this.

tiredanddangerous · 01/06/2022 15:08

Yanbu. It should be first names only.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 01/06/2022 15:08

Should only be first names. I'm really surprised that anyone thinks it's ok to print full names.

Highlyquestionablehoumous · 01/06/2022 15:08

Itsmytreehouse · 01/06/2022 15:05

I worked in a school as a TA for years and their leaver hoodies had the year and first names only and in small print, so I’m surprised it seems common to have the school name and full names! (Large font so you don’t need to be close to see them) there are quite a few children in foster care in dd class so I just think it’s a bit odd to add so much unnecessary information

Presumably the Foster carers have been asked if this is OK, and if its not OK then they will say something.

Is it the school or the parents sorting out the hoodies- it's the parents at my kids school.

Highlyquestionablehoumous · 01/06/2022 15:10

TinaYouFatLard · 01/06/2022 15:06

We’ve done leaver’s hoodies for years. This time is the first year a parent has made a fuss and now we’re only allowed first names.

Don’t be that parent.

What does it matter if you are now only allowed first names? It's hardly a human rights violation! 😂

12yearsinazkaban · 01/06/2022 15:11

strangersthingsepisodefour · 01/06/2022 15:02

Do people like you really exist?

People who can identify a safeguarding risk?
people who have fell victim to an abuser or preditor because they had access to information to forge trustworthiness?
people who have had to see and deal with the consequences of what happens when a paedophile rapes or sexually assaults a child?

yes those people exist. And yes they can become concerned when their child's personal information is paraded around on a platter.

All it takes is
"hi little boy, my son John Smith goes to your school, do you know him? Let's go find out if he wants to go to mcdonalds with you. get in the car"

very easy when school name, class, teachers name and the names of all of your school chums are on your hoodie

Savedbythebell1 · 01/06/2022 15:14

It's definitely a safeguarding risk. Teachers aren't even allowed to throw away a piece of paper with a kids name on it because of GDPR and safeguarding.
Also, leavers jumpers have not been a thing in primary school until recently. It's another example of consumerism and it's so bad for the environment. Won't all these hoodies end up in a landfill within two years?!

Mariposista · 01/06/2022 15:14

Don't be THAT parent. Leavers merchandise is extremely tacky, but the kids love it. By year 6 they are old enough to be taught about stranger danger, and saying NO if someone says come on little Johnny, I know your mum, come with me. They are nearly 12, not 5.

Abraxan · 01/06/2022 15:15

School name is normal on my experience.

It seems to be fault evenly split round her as ti whether it is first name only, first name and initial or full name.

Whilst it may appear to some to have potential issues I'd imagine in reality it is a minuscule risk. Leavers hoodies have been happening for decades. How many safeguarding issues have ever occurred directly because of them in reality?