Would you pay for the child's coat?

shellsuit

grace1990 wrote: »

Your son ripped it even if it wasn't deliberate. You should just pay the money and then the whole thing can be forgotten about.

Lucky you if you normally have a spare £55 knocking about :rolleyes:

aliasojo

shellsuit wrote: »

Lucky you if you normally have a spare £55 knocking about :rolleyes:

Doesn't everyone? :p :rotfl:

Primrose

Could you not go to a charity shop and try to find a replacement coat of a size and type which might fit the boy? Send it to the mother with a note saying that you are a single mother too, cannot afford a replacement but hope she will accept this as this best token you can afford in the circumstances of accidental damage. If the lad has a replacement coat that keeps the cold and the rain out I don't think she can argue and if she's too much of a snob to let her child wear a good quality charity shop secondhand coat, that's her problem. For all you know the coat that was damaged may not have been new either.

Peakma

Judging by what you've already said about the mother in question.
I'd just ignore the silly moo!
Lifes to short to get get dragged into these crazy situations some people create.
Fact,kids muck about,and sometimes clothing gets damaged.If she chooses to send her kids to school in expensive gear,that's a risk she runs.
It would be different,if for example your son had been bullying the other boy and intentionally damaged his property( in that situation,I's suggest your son and the other boy to be raising the money to replace it).But I don't think that's the case here.

bikerqueen

so the teacher slags off the other parent to you? nice.