Have the school done the right thing even though it punishes the wrong set of people ?

[Mumof3bringwine]

DC is in year 6 and as I am sure everyone with a child in the same year is aware the leavers celebrations are in full swing.
The leavers hoodies were organised by the class parent rep.
The hoodies were handed out a while ago and the children have been proudly wearing them 2 days a week in school and were due to wear them for their residential.
unfortunately the Rep has purposely left 1 child without a hoody and also did not include their name on everyone else’s hoody.
I am not sure why it has only been bought to the attention of the school now, but they sent an email basically saying due to one child’s name not being on the hoody they are now banned from being worn on the school premises. Some very angry parents who think the school are punishing the children for something not in their control.
I am not sure what else the school could of done ? I believe they made the right decision but I seem to be the minority!

Well someone needs to order new hoodies with everyone's name on. I think the class rep should pay for them, but I would expect her not to. Eeeeeeeesh though, is it £2160 for that mistake,?

I mean that feels like a huge piece of the pie rather than the VAT thing.

VAT was an easy was to pull the plug. Whatever those arguments where are the real reason the rep did it.

I agree with the school. If it had been my child the rep would have known a lot sooner of my upset !

It happens. Shouldn't happen though. And I would be disappointed and distance myself from those who did not identify the true culprit.

To be fair on the rep she was the only that volunteered to be a rep

That's awful. What a mean lady. Of course people ordering more expensive things should pay more. To exclude a child like this. I hope every child and parent know who is to blame.

I think everyone who bought the hoodies should demand their money back from the rep. I wouldn't want to be complicit in her nasty bullying of a child.

They again wont bother its the end of year six. Most will just nod and smile at best while thinking it’s a bit shit.

Locally there is four different secondary schools without any going off to Sen specialist schools or the selective or private.

The school has no choice. They can't control what happens out of school but in school they can't condone the bullying.

(Personally, I'd now get all the kids to bring in a plain tshirt and have a tshirt designing session so they have something different to wear)

I wonder if the cheapest route would be to ask the original printer to add it onto all the hoodies; collect them all in with labels, send off, get it added and redistribute.

I think this would be best

No, it's REALLY not the job to organise it.

That said, if you put several parents in charge, as it should anyway because it's a big job, and someone checks, that should avoid a repeat.

I am not defending her and removing the name,

but I can sympathise with someone left alone to deal with this because no-one else can be bothered and then, who has to deal with complaints from people doing nothing but who always find the time to criticise.

We do it in school. It is a bit of an undertaking, but we are in control of everything that goes on them that way.

School has done the right thing. The rep should have left their personal feelings out of this.

Abysmal

the school are right. Hopefully the kids learn a valuable lesson they take with them

She made the wrong decision when splitting the vat between everyone, should have been split just between those ordering adult ones.

Did no one challenge her on this at the time?

Either way every student should be named on the hoodie even if their parents don’t buy one.

Hang on, so 1 parent decided that 20 parents who ordered child size hoodies, should pay for most of the VAT for the 10 adult hoodies the other 10 parents had ordered?
This played out on WhatsApp for all to see and no one spoke up, either the other 19 who shouldn't be paying any VAT or the 10 who were not being asked to pay the full VAT they owed?

Well one parent did speak up and she ended up having her child's name removed from the hoodie.

Well one person did and look what happened. Probably no one else wanted the same.

sounds about right

Parents, in their majority either don't care, or only find time to complain.

If you have strong feelings about the way things are dealt with, you should volunteer! (removing the name is another issue, I am just talking about the organising).

Do parents ever, I wonder, ask why there's all this fuss about garments that will be soon be left behind and abandoned by their growing children when the same funds might be contributed to, oh, I dunno, buy books and equipment for the school and actually further people's education for years . . . .?.
I predate hoodies and I predate WhatsApp and I predate all these strange new pseudo-rituals; this means that the melodrama seem just a wee bit misdirected to me!

What an absolute shit-show.
Well, the Year 5 parents can rest assured that there will be no leavers' hoodies next year!
Schools can do without this sort of shit.

I don't believe the mother of the other child was criticising though. She had paid for her child's hoodie and then was asked to pay a share of the cost of some of the others; she didn't even refuse, she just said she couldn't afford it at that time.

This every single child should be on it

buying it is then separate

that said hoodies last all of 5 minutes before being packed away and never seen again