School coat "missing" or "stolen" - vent

tanith

I know this might sound really obvious but have any of you actually gone to the office and asked to see the Lost Property , please do go and search through it as manys the time my grandchildren have 'lost' things and then come home saying they've searched/asked staff if their lost property has been found and it hasn't but 9 times out of ten they haven't bothered to either search or ask about it . My SIL works in the local high school and when one of my grandsons lost his second coat I phoned her and asked her if she could have a good look and she actually found it with other stuff on the stage in the Drama room... but she assures me that parents or children rarely actually come to the office to search the lost property...

elisebutt65

I had this when DS2 was in Year 4 with a lovely Lego jacket. One of his friends decided he wanted it and stole it when they were in after school club together. Luckily the after school staff aren't as namby pamby as the school and next day pointed him out to me and I went over and got his jacket back - Kid started to protest and I just gave him the look of death and pointed to DS's name prominently displayed all over the inside lining in marker pen. I don't muck around with tags:rotfl:

He's at Big school as from yesterday and most of his gear has been 'made' from cheap M & S shirts and his older brothers butchered polos etc. I'm not paying for embroidered in labels so I cut them off and sewed them on:). Good luck if anyone wants to 'swap' them for the proper ones!!!:rotfl:

skylight

Oh yes - lost property.

I do insist on the kids searching there first and then I do a thorough search through all the boxed dotted around the school - a Mummy search is far more productive! What I do wonder about is how many items there actually are in the box, never with any labelling on at all. I'm one of those Mums that sews in name tags (for my sins!) and I have found a far higher success rate of keeping stuff than just writing on labels or ironing them in.

And the teachers/assistants are as bad too with not checking. My kids have blue jumpers with red name labels sewn into the collars/waistbands. When the jumper etc is picked up you cannot fail to notice it; but it still ends up in the "lost" box and no-one bothers to try to return it. Its no longer lost - its been found and you now know who the owner is. I do accept that its not the teachers job to spend half their day returning jumpers to kids, but when something is obvious....


Mind you, if anyone is ever on Littlehampton beach, there is buried somewhere a blue logo'd jumper with my daughters name sewn in it. Should you ever find it..............!

Sarahdol75

We have the same problem with our school, my 8 year "lost" a coat the last week of term before the summer holidays, and its not turned up. We have a lost property box that we are told to check, and last day of term if items not collected they get sent to a charity shop, the amount of times I have checked and it is full to the brim, and only takes 10 mins to return all the labelled clothes back to the children, it so annoys me that the teachers cannot be bothered to do this and would rather just send them to a charity shop. My friends child also had a brand new pair of shoes "go missing" from the classroom after a pe session, they never turned up.

pulliptears

Not just in primary sadly...

My now nearly 19 year old Son was sitting GCSE's aged 16, he had effectively left school and was returning just to take the exams. He walked to school listening to his iPod as usual then went into a form room to hand it over to his old form teacher who would lock it in her desk until after the exam. 3.15 comes, exam is over and iPod has vanished from the drawer. Fortunately one kid in the year 8 form room was honest and told how another boy had seen teacher store it there, taken the key from teachers handbag and nicked it!

Boy was found in another class and searched, producing the iPod. As far as I know he wasn't even suspended!

skylight

Thats as bad as my eldest DD in secondary - she had her mobile stolen from her bag that was in front of a teacher. The kid just looked at the teacher, said "I'll have this" and wandered off with it. The teacher did nothing and it was down to another girl in the class to tell DD it had happened when she came back.

I was not a happy bunny. It took having to tell the school that if the phone wasn't back within 24hrs I would be reporting the matter to the police. The phone arrived back but the kid and teacher were ignored. It was a naff phone, but it wasn't the point.

somethingsgottogive

Thanks all, you've just reminded me to get some labels to sew onto the inside of new cardigan sleeves! Not losing this one!

marywooyeah

when I was 12 my parents bought me a faux leather mac with a waist tie that I had badgered them for - my birthday is right after christmas so it was my joint and only present that year. I was in the sick room at school because I felt faint but made my way to my lesson after lunch anyway and left my coat in there. Remembered and went straight back afterwards but it had gone. I was too scared to tell my parents so put leaflets out within the form rooms offering a reward but I never saw it again, it was a couple of weeks with me going to school without a coat before my parents noticed and I had to fess up. Luckily they were ok about it, but it really hurt that someone had taken my coat that I not only loved but it was both my only present

pulliptears

I can still clearly recall a lad named Jason steaing my most prized possession in infants school - a badge with a T Rex on it (I was dinosaur mad). I knew it was him as he wore it on his coat some weeks later. I was devastated. Obviously it was a cheap badge and not worth a fuss but I remember feeling so betrayed. I'd have only been 6 or so. I'm 37 now and it's never left me.

marywooyeah

pulliptears wrote: »

I can still clearly recall a lad named Jason steaing my most prized possession in infants school - a badge with a T Rex on it (I was dinosaur mad). I knew it was him as he wore it on his coat some weeks later. I was devastated. Obviously it was a cheap badge and not worth a fuss but I remember feeling so betrayed. I'd have only been 6 or so. I'm 37 now and it's never left me.

I can empathise pulliptears - a girl in primary school stole my spice girls photo album (like a sticker album except with photos that came in packs of 8 for 99p). A few girls had them so I could never pinpoint who had mine, until one day I was playing with a girl and she casually said "oh has Priya given you back that album yet?" - in earshot of Priya who looked shocked. when I went to get my back to go home it had miracously been shoved in my bag.
last year the same Priya sent me a facebook friend request and the first thing I thought was "not after stealing my spice girls book love"!