@Soarin' Over Pgh Here's something jacked up that happened to us Wednesday. My daughter got off the bus not wearing her boots. I wasn't stern but asked why she didn't have them on and she starts crying. I apologized (because I thought she was upset with me) and we walked to the house in snow up over her ankles. Crying, crying, she gets in the house, collects herself and told me Mom, someone
stole my boots at school. This is second grade!
For some idiotic reason if you wear boots to school and change to sneakers, you are not allowed to bring the boots into the classroom, they have to stay out in the hall on the floor..you know where anyone can can take whatever they want....and they did! I was p**sed because they weren't that old and they were expensive. Plus the fact only 1st and 2nd grade are in her wing so it had to be another young kid!
This was right at the end of the day and she said the teachers looked around and found nothing. So I called the school right away but everyone had left for the day. I called the very next morning to follow up and got the run around. "Things like that happen." WELL not if they were allowed to keep their personal stuff IN the classroom! SO I called the Superintendant's office. They couldn't believe the boots were taken and said they would follow up on it. (I'm still angry.) Later that afternoon I got a call from daughter's school. They had found her a pair of boots to replace the ones that were stolen. (Funny how their tune was changed after calling THEIR boss.) The boots are not new but it's something on her feet. "They will still look for her original boots." Yeah, sure.
Then yesterday my mom picked my daughter up from the afterschool honors program when she sees the janitor. She figured she'd mention the missing boots. "Yeah pink boots? I found them behind the garbage can in the girls room so I threw them away." Not
oh I did my job and put them in the lost and found! Freaking idget. Now I have to fill out complaint forms at the board of education because that janitor threw them away, a violation of his employee handbook. Idget! If he had just put them in the lost and found, she would have got them the next morning and it would have been all good.