PP, that is a lot of "what ifs." |
I'm sure a kid just took the wrong coat by accident. This has happened to us, both as the inadvertent taker and the takee. |
I have a friend whose daughter (7) has had two coats stolen so far this winter. The kid kept her coat folded up in her backpack after the first one went missing. Not hanging on the coat rack..yes, sure, kids can take the wrong coat by accident but who goes into another classmate's backpack by 'accident' kwim. |
My dd left her coat (a nice 1 month old north face) at The playground couple of weeks back. When we went back an hour later, some darn kid peed on her coat! Another kid saw two teenage boys do it but they have ran away right after. That's also kinda like robbing my dd a nice coat this winter.
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They went into her backpack? That's really bad. I hope that she let the teacher know about that. |
OP, did your daughter go up to her teacher right away to report it missing? Is she in a homeroom where all children leave at the same time, under direction from the teacher? Seems like that would have been the time for the teacher to help sort things out about the missing coat. |
Yes, this happens a lot. I have a child that used to leave sweatshirts around all the time--gets hot playing on the playground, throws sweatshirt down, then forgets about it. I'd ask the school if I could check out the lost and found, and when his sweatshirt wasn't there, was told I could "just take another one." |
Yes. She told her teacher but the teacher suggested maybe she left it at the Playground even though she apparentlysaid no! Her teacher was supposedly busy and went off with another parent and never came back. Again all these happened when I was not present. She definitely saw it after playground because she claimed she said put her recorder into the the coat side pocket. (she likes playing the recorder while walking home from school) even it was taken by mistake, I am sure the kid who is took it would realise a long recorder sticking out for the inner pocket?) I checked the lost and found again..... Tons of other stuff but no coat! Spoke to another parent and can't believe what I heard. She suggested just grabbing another coat and recorder from the lost and found from the bottom. Likely it has been forgotten. Boy, did I not give her a gentle lecture. I dont Want someone else's coat. Just our own old grubby coat!! |
We've never had a coat stolen but we did once have a brand new beach towel taken at the pool. It was laying on a lounge chair with the rest of my kid's stuff - shirt, pool bag, etc. So it wasn't like it was picked up by accident, it was obvious that it belonged to someone. Never did show up in the lost and found.
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I have never found anything brand name in the lost and found. The teachers always say expensive stuff in there, but when I look it is all very worn or ugly and just waiting for the donation truck. Never found my DDs new NF jacket x2. |
Yes. Annoying isn't it. In our case some boy/man took my dd's pink waterbottle from the lounge chair and drank from it (drank from full to a quarter) and then left it in the men's shower room. We wouldn't have found it if not for my husband when he was changing out in the male washroom!! No shame and no consideration. It even had a girls name tagged on the cap. Creepy or disgusting either way how people are brought up! |
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Actually noooo.... Not in our school. There's really lots of nice stuff there. Including North face, tna, a&f etc.... All neglected.... No one ever claims them. So many have telephone numbers that the school called but no one ever bothers to even pick it up. I have helped in the volunteering once and we threw out so many good good lunch boxes and expensive steel water bottles. So many of them! and you wonder why parents don't feel the pinch. Coats we send to the shelter so at least someone else could enjoy them. |
Yeah. I wished we could have seen who it was! We just hope it wasn't a man but just a ill mannered boy. But we did boil and sterilize the whole bottle because the cap/nozzle was still wet from him drinking it! (Unsure if it's saliva) Just to be sure and safe.... |
So your kid somehow just got $5 from a kid for being his friend. The kid gave it to your son out of the goodness of his heart? Your kid did absolutely nothing wrong in procuring this money? Gottcha. And your solution is to tell your kid to give it back, while simultaneously complaining about other parents who don't ensure kids return property that isn't theirs? Words fail me. |