The Great Shoe Debacle

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" 
<catlady at w...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Trina" <triner918 at a...> wrote:
> 
> > In short, it was sheer bedlam.  I hope they don't do this again!
> 
> If they do do it again, they need a volunteer beside the line for 
the 
> slide who will take the shoes and put each pair into a paper bag on 
> which the kid's name is written. Also, they will have to tie name 
> tags to their coats and jackets before they leave their classrooms. 
> I would have been ones of the kids who went to the party at 2:00 
and 
> didn't feel ready to leave yet at 2:20.

What is really irksome is that all this kafuffle (sp? word!?) could 
have easily been avoided if the kids' items simply had their names 
written/sewn in them.  At my daughter's school there were so many 
unidentified and unclaimed items of clothing in the Lost and Found 
basket that the PTA has decided to set up a second-hand clothing  
stall once a month.  All schools in England have school uniforms, and 
the most frequently lost item is the school sweatshirt.  Honestly, 
there must be at least 3 dozen of them in our L&F basket.  So we're 
going to take advantage of parental laziness/stupidity and raised 
some much-needed PTA funds through these sales.  As much as I hate 
sewing name tags in clothing, *everything* Beth wears to school 
(barring socks and underwear...have to draw the line somewhere) has a 
name tag sewn firmly to the collar.  Kids' clothing is far to 
expensive to go walkies so easily.

Your labelled-bag idea is certainly the next best thing, Rita.  But 
still I bristle at parents who lay out the expense of school uniforms 
and such, but don't bother labelling the clothing.  I feel sorry for 
the kids, who probably got some hefty verbal lashings (hopefully 
nothing worse) when they got home, though really it's not their 
faults.  Grr...

Thanks for letting me vent.  

Mary Ann :)