to think that if ANOTHER CHILD vomits on my child's coat

[coldtits]

that I should not be handed the coat, vomit and all, at the end of the day, leaving my child with no bloody coat and leaving me with the option of somehow dealing with the possibly infectious vomit covered coat, or binning it and having to replace it?

Seriously, is this standard practice?

Hmm tricky one. I don't really think it is the teachers job to wash the coat and as they don't have laundries in the school I guess the obvious thing is to give it back to the parent.

Was this at school? Or nursery?

At nursery I'd expect them to find a spare, and dd's nursery would have washed the coat too.

At school I'm not sure what else they can do really.

what do you think they should have done Coldtits?

School. He's 6.

It's bloody COLD out there. they could have rung me and warned me to bring a spare!

They should have either foudn him a spare, or rung me.

And they should have rinsed it under the tap so I don't have to pick another child's chunky vomit out of my washing (a child whose infection status I do not know)

I was going to ask what BalloonSlayer did.

But i do think it would have been helpfull if they could have phoned you before pick up time, so you could have brought a spare coat to go home in.

Ah yes. They could have done that. You may very possibly not be U.

(can I put that any more grudgingly?)

Yes they should definitely have rung you. I was freezing in my big winter coat this afternoon so I don't think thats on. Was there time to ring you? Perhaps it had only just happened.

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At the very least ringing you/finding him a spare is within the bounds of reasonable. Wouldn't be that hard to quickly run the coat under a tap either I would think, and then bag it up.

If my child threw up on someone else, I'd happily deal with the other child's clothing and in fact, I'd rather the school let me know so I could at least offer to do so for the other parent.

The school should definitely have provided spares for a little one, particularly when it's cold!

YANBU

They should have called you and ideally tried to find something in the lost property box for him to borrow. I'd be annoyed in the extreme - especially if we'd planned to go straight out after pick up rather than straight home.

YABU if you expected them to launder it for you, but then I don't think you did.

So the school handed you a vomit covered coat that had been sitting in the cloakroom all day, half a day whatever? Did no one think it might be a good idea to run it under the tap or sponge it down at least? Sick is not pleasant but it's a better option than a child having no coat in this weather.

They should have called you then called the other parents and ask if it would be okay for it to be sent home with them for them to launder it. I would not expect others to clear up my dc's puke, how awfully revolting.