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Original poster

To be fuming at the school for sending ds's shoes, with someone's human shit on them, home in a bag?

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Spidermama · 08/02/2010 16:06

Someone shat on the toilet floor. It's the second time in a week this has happened. Anyway, today ds stood in the poo and they told him to put on his gym shoes, put his shitty shoe in a bag, and sent it home to me.

What TF would you do? It was diahorrea apparently. Now I have a grim bin liner in my home with a turdy shoe in it.

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BelleDeChocolateFluffyBunny · 08/02/2010 16:07

Gross.

You could either clean it or throw them. I expect the school had exactly the same feelings and views as you.

brimfull · 08/02/2010 16:09

yuck
bet the teacher had no time to deal with a shitty shoe though

LazyJourno · 08/02/2010 16:09

eeeugh. If it's a regular occurance I'd be having a word...

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Spidermama · 08/02/2010 16:09

Belle if it had happened under my roof I would feel responsible enough and clean the shoe.

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Spidermama · 08/02/2010 16:11

You think I have got time to clean a shitty shoe ggirl? These threads don't write themselves you know.

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whyme2 · 08/02/2010 16:11

Well they didn't wash my dd's tights when she peed in them and they don't wash the paint or glue from her clothes and hair so I expect they won't wash the shit from her shoe.
Seems fairly reasonable to me tbh.

brimfull · 08/02/2010 16:12

lol

ChasingSquirrels · 08/02/2010 16:12

Depending on the age of the child either he or I would be cleaning it up.
And I'd be telling him to be more careful where he stood.

Of course the school should ensure that the floor is kept clean, but it depends on when it happened.

whyme2 · 08/02/2010 16:12

Although you have my complete sympathy - I hope you had a warning as to what was in the bag though before you opened it.

BelleDeChocolateFluffyBunny · 08/02/2010 16:12

I would clean it aswell. I can't make excuses for them, there are none. It's disgusting, spreads becteria etc. Can you ask them why it was too much of an effort to pop some bleach over the bottom of the shoe?

PositiveAttitude · 08/02/2010 16:12

I agree spider, it would only take a minute to run it under a tap.

This is mega gross and I would just have to go and say what I think!

woodyandbuzz · 08/02/2010 16:12

Disgusting. I'd hope that the shoes were old and almost outgrown so that I could chuck them out and get the next size up.

Not sure what the school could have done. Well, I know they could have cleaned it off, but which member of staff has that in their job description?

How old is your DS? Old enough to look where he steps or not?

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Spidermama · 08/02/2010 16:13

By the way this is a junior school and ds is 10. It wasn't his poo. We're not talking about some sort of toddler accident here.

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nowwearefour · 08/02/2010 16:13

i think it is nice that they put it in a bin bag. sorry but i think it is for you to clear it up, not the school. only because they have so many things to worry about and i'd rather they spent their time teaching and supervising our kids than doing all the horrible tasks we'd rather not do....

wonderingwondering · 08/02/2010 16:13

Don't suppose the teacher had time to sort it out. Just clean it, it is only child's poo. Not great, but you'd do it if he stood in dog mess. Which is probably worse. And at least you know you'll clean it properly, rather than a quick swoosh under the tap to get the visible bits off.

But I think if the poo-on-floor is a regular occurence, I'd be asking the school for greater supervision in the loos, it is a health risk as well as unpleasant. How old is your DS?

StealthPolarBear · 08/02/2010 16:14

ugh I hope they wouldn't run them under an indoor tap

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Spidermama · 08/02/2010 16:16

He's 10 wonmdering. I think I'll make him do it.

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momofnearly2 · 08/02/2010 16:16

I'd be sending the shoe's right back to them. I bloody well wouldn't be cleaning someone else's faeces off shoe's. I have enough trouble cleaning my own Ds's bum when he's done a poo.

Blackduck · 08/02/2010 16:17

Why should a teacher (or anyone else) at school have to do it? Not their job...nasty accident, yes, but ge over it....ds came home in a similar state on first day of term (dog poo) which I had to deal with because there was no way I was throwing his new shoes out...

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Spidermama · 08/02/2010 16:20

If it was dog poo I would take it on the chin. But this is human poo on the floor of their toilets for the second time in a week. That's rank.

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BelleDeChocolateFluffyBunny · 08/02/2010 16:24

This doesn't sound like a nasty accident, it's filthy.

OrmRenewed · 08/02/2010 16:27

Yuck! But it's just as yuck for the teacher as you.

goblincandoa5k · 08/02/2010 16:29

It isn't pleasant, but staff don't generally hang around the loos waiting for kids to have an accident or mess about.

If it happened in our school, i would have probably wiped off as much as i could, put shoe in a bag and then sent it home.

I would also have expected one of the children to have notified an adult of the poo so that it could be cleaned - before someone stepped in it.

Hope it comes off alright.

RustyBear · 08/02/2010 16:31

I would be blaming the parent of the child who is apparently being sent in while suffering from diarrhoea....

Sassybeast · 08/02/2010 16:32

I'd be having a word fairly rapidly, about the spread of infection. Not in any way acceptable or justifiable to send a shoe home with poo on it.