Bl**dy kids and schools RANT!!!

[Diving Dude]

You may as well give them the rest of your gear

[Crieagle]

Originally Posted by Diving Dude

You may as well give them the rest of your gear

Nah give them to my lad, it can go with the three masks he brought home from school.

[PeeBee]

Originally Posted by Diving Dude

You may as well give them the rest of your gear

Cheers pal knew I could rely on you for sage advice, do you think they'd like a very cluttered inspo too?

[dry suit diver]

I hope you took the capital D out of due just after the comma where you expressed that the first reason was selfish. the school might think yuou were an uneducated pikey

[ShinyD]

Originally Posted by Diving Dude

Misserable barsteward.

You should just donate the gear to the school

He has, hasn't he Involuntarily and retrospectively maybe, but donated nonetheless

[dry suit diver]

Originally Posted by ShinyD

He has, hasn't he Involuntarily and retrospectively maybe, but donated nonetheless

no as ahe has been told he will be reimbursed. if he had said dont pay me then that would have been a donation.

[ShinyD]

Originally Posted by PeeBee

My email

Dear Mr XXX

I have just been called by my ex wife to tell me that your school has managed to lose some of our property.

It appears that one of my Daughters (Louise or Rachel) lent your school 3 of our diving masks. Despite repeated requests there was no response until their mother finally wrote a letter. The result is an apology that they can no longer be found, that we should replace them and that we will be reimbursed. I'm not sure that the writer would be aware that proper equipment like that represents a cost of at least £100 probably more. Good quality masks are typically more than £40 each. The cost is relatively minor, yes I can replace them and I will submit an invoice, but this doesn't address two other issues which have made me more angry, the first is entirely selfish, Due to your school's carelessness I now have to devote a significant amount of time during our holiday to shopping instead of doing the diving I have booked and paid for. Secondly, the lack of care for equipment entrusted to your safe keeping demonstrates a lack of respect that makes me wonder how you expect your pupils to take any kind of lead from you. I hope that when children spray graffiti or damage school property you don't take the hypocitical line and lecture them on respect for other people's property.

And I guess that should be hypocritical? You may get an invite by return mail to attend the next spelling bee...or be sent some homework

[TerryH]

I just know i'm gonna take flack for this, but why on earth would you let
masks costing over £100 be taken to school????????

More so when you knew you were going away.

They have cheapo mask and snorkel sets in Tescos at the moment for
£6, I bet they'll be even less soon. If you had to lend that would have
been better.

Yes I blame the parents, the actual parents.

[PeeBee]

Originally Posted by Crieagle

Nah give them to my lad, it can go with the three masks he brought home from school.

Not flaming lacing by any chance?

[PeeBee]

Originally Posted by TerryH

I just know i'm gonna take flack for this, but why on earth would you let
masks costing over £100 be taken to school????????

More so when you knew you were going away.

They have cheapo mask and snorkel sets in Tescos at the moment for
£6, I bet they'll be even less soon. If you had to lend that would have
been better.

Yes I blame the parents, the actual parents.

Terry, fair comment but I see my kids at weekends, what they do during the week is mostly down to thir mother I'm afraid, they didn't ask and I would have said no if they had.