What to do with School Issue?

ska_lover

I agree, not a big deal really

*max*

6 year old finds a hole in her trousers, works through it with fingers as the day goes, ends up with big rip and ruined trousers.

Absolute non-event. Sleep tight!

thorsoak

It's ironic, isn't it - people getting steamed up about a 6 year old showing her knickers - yet turn not a hair about 16+ year olds showing half their bare bums wearing short "skirts" !

pollypenny

Yes, her fault, take the consequences - unless she was cold. Then she'd have told a teacher and probably been given a pair of trousers to wear.

She's had a good lesson.

Spendless

For me I think it would depend on whether the rip meant her underwear was obviously on show for the rest of the day or whether you could see it -if you were looking, but the huge majority of people wouldn't notice. If the first yes I'd ask teacher about it, the 2nd I'd leave.

dizziblonde

merlot123 wrote: »

Personally, I agree with most posters, i wouldn't have expected the school to do anything as she had torn the trousers. If they had asked her to wear shorts all day, would you then be appalled at the teachers for your daughter being cold and not dressed correctly for the month of January?

Teachers can't do right for doing wrong at times.

The January angle would have put me off the PE shorts approach to be honest - I'd probably have gone for the approach of getting her to put her PE shorts on under her trousers if they were tight shorts - or she'd have had to wear PE shorts inside and probably resort to the trousers if she was going outside for playtime.

As for the supply of "accident" pants - it's not infinite - often by this point in term stuff hasn't been returned (and kids haven't grown out of their current stuff for donations to replenish supplies to be coming back in) and it's utter desperation measures to find absolutely ANYTHING that fits for even soggy or squelchy knickers. And if you DO find something that might be unfortunately the "wrong" gender - people complain about that too!

johnnyl

Lets ask ourselves a simple question.

What would be the view of the school, or teachers if the child rolled up TO school like that.

I think we all know the answer to that question.

ukjoel

Or how would you have felt if you got a call at 10am asking you to leave work, go home, pick up a spare pair of trousers and take them to the school.

foxymum1977_2

at my primary school many moons ago we did PE in our knickers and vests!!
still i think your daughter should have been gived a spare pair of trousers to wear.

balletshoes

johnnyl wrote: »

Lets ask ourselves a simple question.

What would be the view of the school, or teachers if the child rolled up TO school like that.

I think we all know the answer to that question.

obviously I can only speak for my daughter's primary school when she was 6, but I think the school would probably have just carried on as normal, I wouldn't have got a call from them and I doubt that they'd give her anything else to wear (I don't recall anyone getting "spares" from the school all through her primary school). The class teacher may have had a word with me or whoever was picking her up from school that afternoon, but not to tell me off, just to let me know she'd come to school dressed that way. If the OPs child's teacher knows that the child hasn't come to school dressed that way before, and they know she did it in school that day, whats to discuss? She's not at risk.

It was a one-off situation (lets hope OP, otherwise child's pocket money for the forseeable would be deducted to pay for more school trousers ).