To expect school uniform back if labelled

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I'm so annoyed. DD lost her school cardigan a couple of days ago (it actually had two name labels on). Hasn't turned up in lost property. One of my DT's lost his school jumper last week and the other DT his whole PE kit (all labelled!) including the PE bag with his name in huge permanent pen

It's a lovely school and I couldn't be more happy but it is worth mentioning to the office? I have a feeling the items find their way to lost property then get pinched! I wonder if the office could keep labelled items for a couple of days so you can collect in person.

It actually seems pointless to label the uniform (and it's not cheap).

I have been falling foul of this for years! It drives me nuts! It got to the point, after losing 2 new labelled jumpers in a week, where I wrote ds's initials on the outside of the back of his sweatshirt collar in permanent marker! He lost it one day, and a parent returned it the next day! Another time, a small child passed me on the way out the gate, wearing ds' marked jumper. When I pointed it out, his mother returned it sharpish!

YANBU, I can never get over the level of dishonesty of some people. Our school is really good for this, named stuff pretty much always comes back. Unnamed is held in the office for a while then goes to the uniform shop to be sold. The only thing that didn't come back in three years was a jumper of DS1s, when I went to the uniform shop to buy another one and explained why the lady there gave me one off the second hand rail. The named jumper eventually showed up months later and I handed the other one back to the uniform shop.

Sports uniform worn to school on sports day rather than PE kits in separate bags really helps with the younger ones.