To be shocked by the leavers jumpers

[Itsmytreehouse]

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?

YANBU. I wouldn't be happy with my kid having his full name on that.

Why are you assuming everyone has consented when the OP is clearly a parent who hasn’t consented?

The exact same reasons some kids names don’t ever appear in the paper or online associated with their school.

a family fleeing DV for one example. There are many reasons. It’s basic safeguarding.

The parents haven’t even been asked for consent

I think everyone’s gone bonkers over things like this. I know we have to protect kids but I think there’s such thing as worrying too much. Just calm down a bit. It’s unlikely anything will happen. It’s the names of the entire school year in small letters.

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

The kid will have left the school. It's a leavers' hoodie.

And at 11 or 12, a child really should be more aware of ploys to get him or her into a car than you expect them to be.

I left school in 2008 and we had these, it’s not new (obviously that wasn’t primary though).

Then the issue is that they haven’t asked the parents for consent not the leavers jumper or names itself. It that’s not why op or others claim to be “shocked”

It’s fair enough to be shocked that something like this is being done in the school either unchecked by the school or allowed by then when it’s a basic safeguarding no-no and a consent issue

It’s a primary school hoodie - it’s not going to be 100+ names like a secondary one

Also what are tha “many reasons”?

FIrst and last name and school year are enough to work out the school email address of kids in our local secondary.

Yeah I am baffled as to the reasons why this is so so dangerous.

I doubt any kid is using their school email address for personal stuff, nor are they using it after they leave school. SO thats a very limited window of opportunity to contact someone and ... with ALL the names on the top, how on earth does the potential groomer-kiddie-snatcher work out WHICH kid they're emailing?

Er and aren't all these kids wandering about wearing a bag, jumper, shirt, trousers/skirt/pants with their full name sewn or written in to prevent loss/theft of clothing/items?
Some of which are items they will leave lying around in public of course, whilst they play in the park or whatever.

Op doesn’t claim to be shocked because of a lack of consent though. And other than for a few potentially vulnerable children who may have reasons not to consent, I can’t see what safeguarding issues there could be. children at dds school are regularly on twitter and Facebook as long as their parents consent. It’s not an issue.

What if the child he has targeted is actually John!

Gosh well no other easier way anyone else could ever contact children online or irl. Oh wait, there are about a million.

you don’t wvwn know the kids from primary Have go to the secondary. It’s nonsense.

My son's had first name only. We got him one CV costing £23 and he wore it about 4 times. He did not like it.

God forbid someone think about safeguarding. Of course they should be first names only. 🙄 at all those on here who seem to think safeguarding is a joke. I imagine you’re the same posters who are up in arms about the latest spate of child murders.

I agree with you, OP.

Unless a child has a unique name I don't see the risk. I wouldn't say my name is very common but if you search it on facebook there are quite a few of us.

Weren't most (maybe all) of the recent child murders done by parents or step parents?

Breaking gdpr rules

I think you could identify DD2 by her leavers hoody. There are only 2 primary schools in the country that match her school name as written on the front of the hoody. She is the only child with her name in the year (the diminutive version in larger font across the top is a common match with her first name - and further down the writing is her full name including surname).

We went into London to a museum and I made sure she understood how easily I could find that information out. She was to ensure that if anyone greeted her by name and said I'd sent them to talk to her, she was to ask for our agreed password. If anyone ever attempts this and fails to give the password DDs know to find someone in authority, or start yelling to get maximum attention.

I don't think they're great from a safeguarding perspective.

Well the jumpers aren't needed are they. How many kids wear them? I never see them after the last week of term. University ones get more wear in my experience.

I’ve owned three leavers’ hoodies since the late 90s (for primary, secondary and college). All with full names displayed. No one ever took issue that I was aware of, but a few of the secondary parents requested to have their kids’ names left off (I remember because one was a friend of mine).

Surely that’s the solution - i.e. to ask which parents are comfortable or uncomfortable with it, not to ban the hoodies altogether.