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Label school shoes?

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tara83 · 07/09/2017 21:36

Probably over reacting to most but my little girl started school in reception on Wednesday. Today she came home and took her shoes off, her teachers have written in sharpie or permanent marker , her full name across the soles. It looks horrible considering her shoes had the prettiest sparkly soles, they just don't look nice now never mind I can't sell them on or pass them down to anyone else.
I dint know why but it's made me absolutely fume. I dint know why they didn't ask me to label them if needed or at least write it in the white sewn in bits inside the shoe that could be taken out later on. Yes, ok she won't lose them and no one can take the name out now but still...

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NikiBarbie · 07/09/2017 21:40

You cant sell on shoes that have moulded to your childs feet.

I dont see a problem. Fuming is a slight overreaction.

user789653241 · 07/09/2017 21:44

Sorry that happened, but it's inevitable, I think. Reception children may not know which one is yours, especially if they are wearing similar ones. Should have named them yourself. (I'm sure you were instructed to name everything before she started!)

NannyR · 07/09/2017 21:45

I can't see a problem with this. Quite often in a class, several children will have the same pair of shoes in similar sizes, it's really difficult to sort out whose is whose.
Clear labelling will make it easy for the child to find her own shoes.

RippleEffects · 07/09/2017 21:45

Are you honestly trying to say that at no point have school, parenting forums or common sense suggested that you shouod label your childs school stuff?

BubblesBuddy · 07/09/2017 21:46

Sparkly soles for school? Why? Is school a party? Just buy standard school shoes and buy stick in labels. Surprised the teachers had time to mark the shoes though. Still, you know what to do with the next pair - black soles!

elevenclips · 07/09/2017 21:47

Don't stress about this. You should always label everything that goes into school. The teachers did you a favour. You can pass them on to a smaller friend - why not? You can even sell them with a name in.

SavoyCabbage · 07/09/2017 21:49

Did you not know you had to label their uniform? It constantly amazes me that people expect their tiny children to identify their clothes. Even if they weren't wearing uniform it would be a hard task.

OlennasWimple · 07/09/2017 21:49

You wouldn't be able to sell on shoes that had gone missing either...

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tara83 · 07/09/2017 21:50

I'm overreacting then they're school shoes , but most of Clarke's shoes had a bit of sparkle on the soles this year's for the younger girls.
Of course I knew to label clothes , lots of reminders from school, but have never done it with shoes in the 10 years mine have been going

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grasspigeons · 07/09/2017 21:50

I think she should have asked! But you do need to name them. They take them off for PE and they go home with the wrong child all the time.

cheeseandcrackers · 07/09/2017 21:52

In my experience, school shoes will be worn through before they can be sold/passed on anyway. Surely you were told to label everything? If you sent un-named shoes in to school it's only fair that the teachers label them in whatever way is easiest for them, they were doing you a favour.

abbsisspartacus · 07/09/2017 21:52

It will wear off you should label them anyway

mamalovebird · 07/09/2017 21:53

I sharpie everything. Shoes included. Can't be faffed with labels. They'll be in no fit state to go anywhere other then the bin at the end of the year... if they last that long.

Starlight2345 · 07/09/2017 21:53

School shoes never last anyway so will be no handing on or selling.

My DS came home in his B.Friends shoe before yes just one they both had odd pairs...They are both different sizes but noticed by other parent and able to sort it out as boys shoes were maned.

so yes this is why she wrote on shoes and looking after a class full of 4 year olds she doesn't have time to do it how you would want..She is simply saving time when they inevitably get mixed up

niknac1 · 07/09/2017 21:56

After a while you'll be marking the bottom of their pristine new white socks in black sharpie, wait till you've lost something you'll be wishing you'd triple labelled them. It definitely gets easier, relax at least you got both shoes back. You won't care about those shoes because they're going to get trashed at school, think scuffed toes, bits on Velcro, scratches etc. Everything at school has a hard life , think of the teacher with 30 children and children don't always know what their things look like.

BubblesBuddy · 07/09/2017 21:58

Cash's stick in labels are brilliant. Shoe ones and small rectangular ones for everything else. They take a nano second to write in the name and stick inside the shoe. Ditto for labelling recorder, lunch box, drink bottle etc.

user789653241 · 07/09/2017 21:59

" boys shoes were maned." Sorry, I am not being nasty, but the image came into my head and made me laugh!

TheNext · 07/09/2017 22:02

My Y6 child swapped shoes by mistake with another child last year. Fortunately I had written his initials inside in nail polish. I name everything. In multiple places.

xyzandabc · 07/09/2017 22:03

4 yr old will not be able to tell their own shoes from the other 15 very similar pairs around the room. And are likely to take them off both for pe and outside time when wellies are required. Definitely a must for being labelled.

I agree with others that as school shoes they are likely to be worn out and in no fit state for passing on or selling. But if they were in a fit state, why couldn't you sell them just because they've got your child name on?

I have plenty of 2nd hand clothes and wellies that have various children's names in, I can't see any problems with that. I just stick my child's name in too.

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tara83 · 07/09/2017 22:04

I think they could have just told me so I could choose to write it in or put a stick on in rather than messy writing across it. I don't think it's their choice to do whatever's easiest for them when it's not their belongings, she was only in for two hours today with no pe or changing, I think they could have just as easily asked me at pick up time.

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MollysMummy2010 · 07/09/2017 22:08

My daughter came home with one of her shoes and one of a class mates despite being labelled but at least we were able to get it back. Everything needs to be labelled. One mum has even labelled her DD's pencils and felt tips but I did not go that far.

My girl lost a polo shirt during PE last term and had to walk round in her vest (shirt also labelled....)

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tara83 · 07/09/2017 22:15

All her things are labelled , clothes and plimsoles , bag, lunchbox, didn't think to do shoes. Never have before and no one has ever gone and scrawled inside my children's shoes before either. I think it would just be courtesy to ask me to do it myself rather than write on other people's things. Of course things will get lost or mixed up , my children have all lost things in school named or not . I personally would have reminded the parent to name it or done it at least neatly or discreetly.

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user789653241 · 07/09/2017 23:03

Dealing with 30 4 year olds, I don't think a teacher has time to do it nicely or neatly. And don't have time to look for missing shoes either.
Honestly, it's no big deal, move on. It will be battered by end of term, and make sure to label the new one.

purplecorkheart · 07/09/2017 23:19

I would think after a few weeks the Sharpie will have worn off or faded. To be fair to the teacher they were doing their best to ensure your child did not mix up their shoes.

ftw · 07/09/2017 23:25

If they weren't labelled, there'd be no shoes to sell/pass on.

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