School has binned my daughters belongings

phunkles

bestpud wrote: »

After a time, yes,

More so if they notified customers it would be happening!

fairly sure they do announce in stations that if you leave a bag/luggage unattended it will be disposed of anyways...


The school PE kit issue surely youd of noticed she hadnt come home with it on the last day of term and if youd rang they of a.kept hold of it or b. arranged a time for you to collect it.

You and your child were warned in advance they would dispose of items left.

i really do hate compensation culture sometimes.

Limey

Mcmanlyn (& others), apologies for the generalisation, I agree there are teachers out there that do care about the sprogs, but there does seem to be a general apathy (in my experience) towards the process of education. I have friends who are just qualifying and are fresh and keen and others who have been through the process, taught for a few years and couldn't/wouldn't continue for various reasons. I agree teachers need support from parents and government but it is a 2 way process.

I am, I suppose, very dissilusioned with the whole system from curriculum to teaching methodology as I had a good education (admittedly in Kenya & Zimbabwe, not the UK) and the current system just doesn't seem to cut it compared to what I experienced. At 9 we were doing French and Latin!

Re the whole lost property thing my school in Harare had a fairly large number of pupils (30 per class & 2 classes per year) and lost property was not thrown out for a very long time, if at all. Things usually ended up in the thrift shop if not claimed. lol

bylromarha

KatP wrote: »

Again people are missing the salient facts. This isn't something "lost" or left at school for ages, it is PE kit that she needed in school until the end of term and she forgot it on her peg.

It wasn't left somewhere random and she wasn't given any opportunities after that day she forgot it to collect it or reclaim it.

The lunch box fair enough, but LABELLED PE kit, left in the correct storage place, what harm in saving it until the end of the first week of the new term in case it was collected especially as it had proper trainers rather than just pumps in it.

If she'd been sick on the last day of term it would have been left there too.

It is an overly harsh policy.

Surely the salient fact is that it was left in school for 7 weeks and no attempt was made to contact the school to inform them of this nor leave a request on an answerphone to hold on to the kit.

Labelled, yes. Interest shown by parent that it was wanted, no.

If you'd like to work in a 4 form entry primary school and see how many items can be left over a summer holiday, then you'll see just how harsh a policy it is when you're the one expected to hold onto and sort through dirty lunch boxes and smelly kit for 7 weeks, stinking up the corridors.

It should be put down to a lesson learnt the hard way and move on-surely it's best the staff at the school worry about teaching the children rather than trying to hunt down items that were left in the building over the summer holidays and suddenly being expected to be found 7 weeks later

Don't know what CBA means-probably a good thing!

oystercatcher

A couple of years ago we came home from our summer holiday to find we had a parcel to collect from the post office. ......... once collected the parcels was found to contain an outgrown, labelled, school jumper which the school had very kindly posted back. I wasn't even aware we had lost it ! I did reuse the label! The jumper was no good as it didn't fit any of my children.
At the time my thoughts were, what a waste of the schools money !! This was a secondary school too!

I really think schools have better things to do than sort through childrens lost property. Every one knows schools close and have a big clear out over the summer. There are piles and piles of unwanted tat left behind I really don't expect the school to store it all over the summer. I expect my children to return to a clean and tidy school in the autumn.
On the last day of term it's always taken for granted that a child will remove all their belongings. If OP knew there were expensive things left in the bag then she should have gone back at the first opportunity or even phoned to ask that they were put to one side.

As most children start the new term with new uniform and kit I'm sure the school assumed this was unwanted belongings.

amandada

rsdiscos wrote: »

I am a teacher and am constantly amazed at how much stuff is not labelled. :eek: She couldn't understand how no one else would know who's it was!:rotfl:

Well I'm bloomin' glad you're not teaching my children with your lack of grasp of the difference in meaning between "whose" and "who's"

Katie-Kat-Kins

oystercatcher wrote: »

A couple of years ago we came home from our summer holiday to find we had a parcel to collect from the post office. ......... once collected the parcels was found to contain an outgrown, labelled, school jumper which the school had very kindly posted back. I wasn't even aware we had lost it ! I did reuse the label! The jumper was no good as it didn't fit any of my children.
At the time my thoughts were, what a waste of the schools money !! This was a secondary school too!

I really think schools have better things to do than sort through childrens lost property. Every one knows schools close and have a big clear out over the summer. There are piles and piles of unwanted tat left behind I really don't expect the school to store it all over the summer. I expect my children to return to a clean and tidy school in the autumn.
On the last day of term it's always taken for granted that a child will remove all their belongings. If OP knew there were expensive things left in the bag then she should have gone back at the first opportunity or even phoned to ask that they were put to one side.

As most children start the new term with new uniform and kit I'm sure the school assumed this was unwanted belongings.

Rot!

Most kids only get new kit and uniform if they have outgrown the old stuff, and often the outgrown stuff is handed down to a brother or sister or even a cousin or neighbour. Binning it is wasteful.

I only ever had two PE skirts and PE knickers, they lasted me from year 5 or 6 and only needed replacing the once, before that we wore shorts. The first skirt was a hand me down even though I am an eldest child, and we weren't poor that was just fairly typical. You buy with growing room and only replace it when it is waaaaay too small.

This kind of wasteful consumerist society is where we are all going wrong!

Gingham_Ribbon

Her PEkit was on her personal 'peg' with a plainly labelled lunchbox. (name and class plastered all over it)It's not like they couldn't find the owner after the holidays.

To be honest, I think that your annoyance may partly be due to a misunderstanding. No matter how tidy your child is at home, there is almost no chance that all her stuff was neatly bagged up and on her peg at the end of term. It will most probably have been strewn about along with a load of other stuff.

It's an annoyance, but I think you just have to chalk it up to experience. Teachers have a job to do and it's not spending hours sorting out lost property.

MrsTinks

Binning may be wasteful - but it happens! If no-one made any attempt to recover the PE kit on the last day when surely you'd have noticed it was gone then a pair of shoes and some smelly clothes would not be high on the list of things for a teacher to try and re-unite with it's uncaring owner?
I am good friends with my neighbour who's a teacher and you would not believe the amount of work they do after the kids have gone home and in the school holidays etc. The preparation work, the marking and the tidying of the classrooms etc ready for the next class. Everyone thinks teachers get an easy time with lovely short hours... trust me they don't!
They do loads of unpaid hours and put a lot of themselves into teaching the children - to expect them to also spend another several hours at the end of term calling up parents or cleaning and washing the stuff left behind (because frankly leaving a used gym kit or lunch box unwashed for 6 weeks is not only unhygenic it's blooming gross! :rotfl: is asking a bit much...
During school holidays the offices are often open for at least a large part of it so I don't see why it couldn't have been possible to contact the school and inform them of the left behind property and then arrange to collect it at the beginning of the holidays?

MrsTinks

amandada wrote: »

Well I'm bloomin' glad you're not teaching my children with your lack of grasp of the difference in meaning between "whose" and "who's"

And THAT is uncalled for! You are making any number of assumptions - that they teach english for starters! Would you expect a woodwork teacher forexample to be equally efficient in gramma as an english teacher? But even if they WERE an english teacher then TYPING errors do happen you know...

So please... refrain from personal comments like that and remember to "Be nice to all moneysavers" :money:

amandada

MrsTine wrote: »

And THAT is uncalled for! You are making any number of assumptions - that they teach english for starters! Would you expect a woodwork teacher forexample to be equally efficient in gramma as an english teacher? But even if they WERE an english teacher then TYPING errors do happen you know...

So please... refrain from personal comments like that and remember to "Be nice to all moneysavers" :money:

It was said tongue in cheek, hence the at the end....