DC aged 8, Year 4, wears glasses. All the time apart from for sport or sleep or washing.
They don’t change for PE in their classroom. There’s two classes per year, Years 1 and 2 are the closest classrooms to the hall/playgrounds so they change in their rooms (no idea where Y1/2 are while doing this, but the school does have a music room and a spare classroom due to only 1 class in Year 5). DC insists that they took the glasses off, put them in the case and put them on top of their clothes. They’ve come back and gone. This in the week before half term. The glasses where less than a week old.
The Year 1 teachers have searched for the glasses, with no luck – girls change in one classroom and the boys in the other so the chances are they’d be in the classroom DC changed in but both were searched in case. Both Year 4 teachers have checked their classrooms including all the trays with no luck. The HT who’d done some group support work with Year 4 (including my DC) earlier that day has checked her office just in case, the front office staff have has an alert for them. Texts have been sent home, a post on the schools facebook page etc. The texts said no questions asked and no-one would be in trouble, I offered a reward on the schools facebook page which the school then repeated in the second text sent out.
The case has DCs name on the front, it’s an engraved case with their full first and second name on, they have an uncommon spelling of their first name and is the only child in the entire school with that spelling so the teachers/staff would know it’s DC but they haven’t turned up (think like Lewys instead of Lewis/Louis, Isobella instead of Isabella, Bayleigh instead of Bailey/Bailie)
I expect logoed school uniform to go missing, even though school have a well-stocked 2nd hand uniform cupboard which anyone can access and I name everything, I expect the odd pair of socks or trousers or similar to go missing as their all pretty similar and that’s what happens with children especially young ones.
But AIBU to expect to be able to send medical aids like glasses into school without issue? School say medical aids/glasses only need a name on the case if their only taken off for sport. This happened a few years ago with a friends DCs hearing aids, they’d just got them and they fell out, DC put them in their case in their tray to get adjusted and they just disappeared have never been found.
I am at the point where I don't want to send glasses into school on PE days now, which is annoying as DC hates not wearing them.
This is not a critisism of the staff at the school either, every member of staff whose been made aware of the missing glasses has gone out of their way to help search for them.