How to deal with item being stolen from DS ar school?

[LMonkey]

We gave DS a smart watch which cost £35 for his 6th birthday a week ago. We forbade him from taking it to school as obviously its too good a toy to risk losing. He was caught out trying to sneak it in to school one day. The next day he successfully sneaked it in to school but the teacher, knowing that he wasn't meant to have it (as he'd seen us take it off him the day before) quite rightly took it and kept it on his desk all day. He gave it back to DS at the end of the day. DS says he put it in his book bag, however by the time he had come out to me (right outside the classroom) it was not in there. We went back in, looked around with the teacher, no luck. The teacher posted a message to all the parents on the online journal that evening to ask the parents to "ask the children if they had seen the watch". He also asked the children about it next day in class. Still nothing.

How do you think I should deal with this from now? The teacher said that he had done all he could, and I accepted that initially, but now what is bothering me is that one of my son's classmates has taken the watch, either stolen it or maybe hidden it, and it's not being dealt with?? It's definitely one of the kids in his class. Surely it can't just be forgotten about so that the kid who took it thinks he can just take stuff and get away with it?

I do realise its 6 year olds I'm talking about here but surely it needs to be addressed!

Might out myself but when I was at school we had to use fountain pens not biros and some girls came in with expensive pens that disappeared. One girl in particular. We had to have a cake sale to raise money

Some parents objected to making cakes etc and it made me wonder years' later if it was attention seeking and did pen really go AWOL.

Nothing to do with OPs situation but interesting

DS "lost" a jumper when he was in Reception.
I turned up again (it was named) at the end of Year 2.

Good grief.

Schools have better things to do than look for things lost by disobedient children.

OP really needs to get a grip, far too much frothing.

I lost the will on page three, but my money says:

He's stashed it somewhere in the classroom because he'd rather have it at school than at home.

If it went home he'd never be allowed to take it back to school to fiddle about with and share with his wee pals. He may half hope it is now replaced and he'll end up with one at home and one at school.

Not many 6 year olds think carefully about the future. Not the ones I know anyway. The status to be had from school pals is just too tempting.